Heb. 13:10. What Altar? by Editor

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · May 6, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 18.

Heb. 13:10. What Altar?

By Editor

No. 551. Heb. 13:10. What Altar?

PLEASE explain Heb. 13:10, "We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle." L. A. P.

The altar is that whereon the victim was laid; and it is here used as a figure of that which was placed on it. For the priests anciently did not eat the altar, but of the altar, what was placed on the altar. Jesus is our sacrifice, who died for us. All who believe in him are "partakers of Christ," and by faith eat his flesh and drink his blood,—are sharers in his sufferings and life. But of this those who still clung to the old tabernacle, with its obsolete rites, the significance of which had passed away, had no right to eat. That right can only come by faith; and faith would look to Jesus, not the ceremony.