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We Have a Spiritual Altar. Let Us Go Out And Offer Sacrifices of Praise

10 We have an altar[a] from which the ones serving[b] in the tabernacle have no right[c] to eat. 11 For of animals from which the blood is brought into the Holies by the high priest for sin— the bodies of these are burned-up[d] outside of the camp. 12 Therefore[e] Jesus also, in order that He might make the people holy with His own blood, suffered outside[f] of the gate.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 13:10 That is, a spiritual altar.
  2. Hebrews 13:10 That is, Jewish priests.
  3. Hebrews 13:10 The reason this is the case is explained in v 11-12.
  4. Hebrews 13:11 No one had the right to eat any of the sacrifice made on the Day of Atonement.
  5. Hebrews 13:12 That is, because Jesus is the fulfillment of that sacrifice.
  6. Hebrews 13:12 As the fulfillment of that sacrifice, there is no sacrificial body remaining. There is no physical eating associated with the sacrifice of Jesus. We are established by grace, not by any connection with foods or eating. So do not be carried away by teachings linking physical eating to spiritual benefits.

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