This I think I could understand because I think Jews take this symbolically since they have no concept (unless I am wrong) of “grace”.
The Haggadah used for the Passover seder says “In
every generation one is obligated to regard
himself as personally delivered out of Egypt, as it is said: You shall tell your child on that day, it is because of this that the L-rd did
for me when
I left Egypt. It was
not only our fathers whom the Holy One redeemed, but
us with them, as it is written: He brought
us out from there so that he might take
us to the land which he promised to our fathers.” Throughout the observance, it is repeatedly “
We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt but HASHEM our God took
us out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm,” and “Blessed are You, HASHEM our God, King of the universe, Who redeemed
us and redeemed our ancestors from Egypt,” and “You removed
us, HASHEM our God, from the land of Egypt and You redeemed
us from the house of bondage,” etc. Words can’t do justice to what it’s like to participate in the Passover seder.
Regarding grace in Judaism, cf.
this article.
I obviously didn’t catch it- was that the reference to post 431 or whatever it was?
As far as I can tell, the first time I referred to Hebrews directly on this thread was in
post #409 on Friday. And I’ve done it many times since.
Ok who wants to explain to me why this…means that priests have to daily re-present Christ’s sacrifice?
“For it was indeed fitting that we should have such a high priest, holy, innocent, unstained, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens. He has no need, like those high priests, to offer sacrifice
s daily, first for his own sins and then for those of the people, since he did this
once for all when he offered up himself.”
Christ has no need to offer many sacrifices (verse 27) because he himself is both perfect priest and perfect victim (verse 26). He offers himself once and only once (verse 27): “he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption… by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified” (9:12, 10:14). This single, perfect sacrifice offered to the Father in heaven, never to be repeated, is the one Christ makes present to us through the divine liturgy.
“Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but
into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf. Nor was it to offer himself repeatedly, as the high priest enters the holy places every year with blood not his own, for then he would have had to suffer repeatedly since the foundation of the world. But as it is, he has appeared
once for all at the end of the ages to put away sin
by the sacrifice of himself… Therefore, brothers, since
we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God,
let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,
not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near…
you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant, and to the sprinkled blood [of the covenant] that speaks a better word than the blood of Abel,” (9:24-26, 10:19-25, 12:22-24).
Christ our High Priest presents his perfect sacrifice to the Father in heaven, and this is the single sacrifice into which we are drawn when we gather together in the Heavenly Jerusalem.
Just tell me why it does NOT say what it explicitly and literally says, that there is no need to offer up daily sacrifice any more.
I will not tell you there is need for daily sacrifice
s, because that would be
contrary to the Catholic faith. There is
only one sacrifice of the new covenant, the perfect sacrifice of Jesus Christ. He offers himself to the Father in heaven, and we participate in that heavenly liturgy.
