1883 Haydock Douay Rheims Bible
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| Hebrews 13:11 | *For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary for sin by the high priest, are burned without the camp. Leviticus 16:27. | This is commonly interpreted of the sacrifice of the Eucharist, by which is continued (though in a different manner) Christ's sacrifice on the cross, of which he speaks in the following words, telling them that the bodies of those beasts, with the blood of which the sanctuary was sprinkled on the feast of expiation. See (Leviticus 16:29.; Leviticus 23:27.; Numbers 29:8.) were burnt without the camp, not eaten as the other victims. Wherefore Jesus, when he fulfilled this figure, and offered himself on the cross, a sacrifice of expiation for the sins of all mankind, and to obtain for them true sanctification, was pleased to suffer out of the gate of Jerusalem. (Witham) |