Cross Vision: How the Crucifixion of Jesus Makes Sense of Old Testament Violence

by Gregory A. Boyd

For example, Exod 29:25, 41; Lev 1:9, 13, 17. While OT authors believed that Yahweh literally enjoyed this aroma, the phrase would eventually become a metaphor for living in a way that pleases the Lord (2 Cor 2:14–16; Eph 5:1–2).