Between the dead and the living Whereby it may seem that this plague, like that fire, (Numbers 11:1,) began in the uttermost parts of the congregation, and so proceeded destroying one after another in an orderly manner, which gave Aaron occasion and direction so to place himself as a mediator with God on their behalf. In this action Aaron was a most eminent type of Christ, and the effect of Aaron's oblation of incense an expressive emblem of the efficacy and happy fruits of the interposition of our great High-Priest.
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Numbers 16:48
48 And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.