Catholic Perspective on Paul by Marshall Taylor

Author:Marshall, Taylor [Marshall, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Saint John Press
Published: 2010-11-17T16:00:00+00:00

The passage above indicates that Christians possess an altar that corresponds to the altar of Jewish tabernacle in Jerusalem. Whereas the Jewish people sacrificed the body and blood of bulls and goats on that altar, Christians have an altar from which even the Jewish priests “have no right to eat.” The sacrifice which the Christians eat is “Jesus who suffered” and who sanctified “the people through his own blood.” The passage no doubt refers to the Christian Eucharist of which Christians have a right to eat as partakers of Christ. If we peel back the English translation of Hebrews 13:10-13 we see that the Greek word for altar is thusiasterion. This word is a compound of the Greek word thusia {“sacrifice”} and sterion {“fixed place”}. To render it literally, Hebrews 13:10 reads: “We have a fixed place of sacrifice.” The concept of Eucharistic sacrifice is built in to the very word for altar as a Christian place of sacrifice.

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