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IT is recorded in the legislation concerning the Nazarite that -

"If any man die very suddenly by him, and he hath defiled the head of his consecration; then he shall shave his head in the day of his cleansing, on the seventh day he shall shave it. And on the 8th day he shall bring two turtles or two young pigeons to the priest. . . and the priest shall offer the one for a SIN OFFERING, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement (kaphar: cleansing) for him, for that he SINNED by the dead . . . and he shall bring a lamb for a TRESPASS offering" (Numbers 6:9-12).

That is, if during a Nazarite's period of vow, someone happens to suddenly die in his presence and thus cause him to be defiled, he must offer "sin" and "trespass" offerings, and his innocent defilement is spoken of as his having "sinned by the dead."

The pre-eminent antitype of the Nazarite is Christ, and every sacrifice of the Law is a type of his sacrifice, and has no meaning apart from that sacrifice. Do you get the picture? You will, and will rejoice in its beauty and fittingness, if you understand the Truth that sound Christadelphians have always believed and insisted on, that Christ, though personally sinless, was redeemed and cleansed by his own sacrifice, in the God-appointed way, from the defilement of his physical relationship to the Sin-and-Death constitution - and that THIS was the essential link between him and us that makes his death a testimony to God's righteousness, and effectual for our salvation.