Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist by Brant Pitre

Author:Brant Pitre [Pitre, Brant]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-385-53185-6
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2016-02-02T05:00:00+00:00

In a word, when we put the giving of the Bread of the Presence in its biblical context, it seems that the earthly “Bread of the Face” was meant to be a kind of memorial of the heavenly banquet in which Moses and the elders “saw” the God of Israel while they “ate and drank.” That is also why God commands Moses to construct the table for the Bread of the Presence (along with the Ark and the Menorah) according to the heavenly “pattern” that he was shown “on the mountain” (Exodus 25:9, 40). The earthly Tabernacle is a visible sign of the invisible heavenly place of God, and the earthly Bread of the Presence is a visible sign of the invisible heavenly face of God.

As one Old Testament scholar puts it, in the bread of the Tabernacle, it is God “himself” who acts as “the host who presents himself to his believers, giving divine strength, divine life.”

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