“Offer Your Whole Souls As an Offering”
Amaleki’s imagery is well chosen. His allusion is to the burnt offering, it being the only sacrificial offering which was entirely consumed. This ordinance, which was had from the days of Adam, was “a type connoting the necessity of complete submission to the will of God, with the attendant idea of total dedication to his service. When we covenant to live the law of sacrifice we are announcing that our sacrifice will in like manner be one of complete submission and total dedication.” (Gospel Symbolism, p. 87.) Partial commitment neither calls forth the blessings of heaven nor seals gospel covenants.
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