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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 13:11 - 13:11
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For just as “the bodies of those beasts whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by ... are burned without the camp,” so “Jesus also that ... suffered without the gate” of ceremonial Judaism, of which His crucifixion outside the gate of Jerusalem is a type.
for - reason why they who serve the tabernacle, are excluded from share in Christ; because His sacrifice is not like one of those sacrifices in which they had a share but answers to one which was “wholly burned” outside (the Greek is “burnt completely,” “consumed by burning”), and which consequently they could not eat of. Lev 6:30, gives the general rule, “No sin offering whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten; it shall be burnt in the fire.” The sin offerings are twofold: the outward, whose blood was sprinkled on the outward altar, and of whose bodies the priests might eat; and the inward, the reverse.
the sanctuary - here the Holy of Holies, into which the blood of the sin offering was brought on the day of atonement.
without the camp - in which were the tabernacle and Levitical priests and legal worshippers, during Israel’s journey through the wilderness; replaced afterwards by Jerusalem (containing the temple), outside of whose walls Jesus was crucified.