“We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle.”
We have an altar from which those who officiate in the tent have no right to eat — the claim is striking: believers possess an 'altar' (thysiasterion, Christ's cross) inaccessible to those who continue with the old sanctuary system. Those serving the tent (skēnē, the tabernacle/temple) cannot participate in the new covenant's central mystery.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 13:10
For Hebrews 13:10 “we have an altar whereof they have no right to eat which serve the Tabernacle.” Not as the Jewish [ordinances], are those among us, as it is not lawful even for the High Priest to partake of them. So that since he had said, “Do not observe,” and this seemed to be [the language] of one who is throwing down his own building, he again turns it round. What, have not we then observances as well (he says)? [Yea we have], and we observe them very earnestly too,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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