Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 13:11
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Hebrews13:11
11 For the bodies of those Beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burnt without the camp.
The Illustration of the Legal and Gospel-Altar-Service is added as a typical Proof of the foregoing Reason; for annexing it to it, that the Iews [illegible: 1 letter]and Judaising Christians had no right to eat of the Christian-Altar. For a Law of their own excludes them from it, which is written, Lev. 6.30. and 16.27. That the Bodies of those living Creatures, which were yearly sacrificed, as a Sin-Offering for Priests and People, both of the Bull and the He-goat with their Skins, &c. were burnt wholly without the Camp; so as neither the Priests, nor any of the People had any part of this Bull or Goat allowed them to eat, having no right to it by the Law of God, which otherwise ordered it. This is the literal Sense, yet the use of it is anagogical leading us to higher things, as that the High-Priest signified Christ, God-Man, the Altar his Godhead, the Sanctuary Heaven it self, the Sacrifice his Human Nature, the true Sin-Offering, of which neither Priest, nor People serving the Tabernacle, ought to eat.
Marginal references: Exod. 29.14. Lev. 4.11, 12. Num. 19.3.
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