"Because of this, Yeshua suffered outside of the city to sanctify the people by His blood."
(Hebrews 13:12)
The Aramaic Bible In Plain English
(1715)
Arent de Gelder
(1645-1727)
Dutch painter
Image courtesy/Art and The Bible
"They had put Christ outside. All had been done as foreshadowed by legal sacrifices.
"Wherefore, Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered
without the gate." And now all is done and the whole Jewish system has no more
meaning. To remain in it and practice the old things, which are gone, is a denial
of Christ and His work as the sin-bearer.
The camp is the people who continued in the things of the law, who denied thereby
that the new sacrifice had been brought; who still used an earthy priesthood
and denied thereby that the new and living way into the holy place
had been made by the blood of Jesus, the rent veil.
Ritualistic Christendom with its man-made priesthood, its so called, "saving ordinances"
its legal principle, so prominent, not only in the worst form of apostate Christendom,
(the Romish church), but in other systems and sects, is but another camp in which
the truth of Christ and His all sufficient work is denied.
Outside of the camp is found the cross of Christ with all its grace and glory.
And therefore the exhortation, which seems to us was the all-important message
for these Hebrews (and for us as well) "let us go forth therefore unto Him without
the camp, bearing His reproach. For here we have no continuing city, but we seek
one to come." In other words, leave all behind, be separate from all, which denies
the cross and the work accomplished there.
And "outside the camp" must mean "inside the veil" to enjoy the perfection in Christ,
to be in God's holy presence as a true worshiper.
"For we are the circumcision who worship God in spirit and rejoice
in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh."
(Philippians 3:3)
-Gaebelein's Annotated Bible
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