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NOWHERE MENTIONED IN THE E PISTLE AND THAT THE RITUAL DETAILS ARE THOSE OF THE T ABERNACLE AND NOT THOSE OF THE SECOND T EMPLE . T HE READERS WERE INFLUENCED BY THE ACTUAL FORM IN WHICH THE M OSAIC ORDINANCES WERE EMBODIED . T HE WRITER , PERHAPS FROM HIS EXTERNAL CIRCUMSTANCES OR MORE PROBABLY IN ORDER TO LAY HIS REASONING ON ITS DEEPEST FOUNDATION , GOES BACK TO THE FIRST INSTITUTION OF THE SYSTEM . H E SHEWS HOW THE ORIGINAL DESIGN OF THE PRIESTLY RITUAL OF THE L AW , AND THEREFORE OF NECESSITY OF ALL PARTIAL AND SPECIFIC EMBODIMENTS OF IT , WAS SATISFIED BY C HRIST . T HE
T EMPLE SERVICE , WITH ALL ITS PECULIARITIES , FINALLY DREW ITS SANCTION FROM THE L AW . T HE RITUAL OF THE T ABERNACLE WAS THE DIVINE TYPE OF WHICH THE RITUAL OF THE T EMPLE WAS THE AUTHORITATIVE REPRESENTATION . A ND ACCORDING TO THE POPULAR TRADITION IT WAS BELIEVED THAT THE TABERNACLE AND ITS FURNITURE , WHICH HAD BEEN REMOVED BY J EREMIAH FROM THE FIRST
T EMPLE BEFORE ITS DESTRUCTION , WOULD IN DUE TIME BE RESTORED (2 M ACC . 2:4 FF . AND G RIMM ' S NOTES ).

A ND FURTHER IT MUST BE ADDED THAT THE T EMPLE , LIKE THE K INGDOM WITH WHICH IT WAS COORDINATE , WAS SPIRITUALLY A SIGN OF RETROGRESSION . I T WAS AN ENDEAVOUR TO GIVE FIXITY TO THAT WHICH WAS ESSENTIALLY PROVISIONAL . A ND THUS THE WRITER OF THE E PISTLE , BY GOING BACK TO THE FUNDAMENTAL LEGISLATION , SIGNIFICANTLY INDICATES THAT THE M OSAIC L AW FIRST FOUND ACCOMPLISHMENT IN C HRIST AND NOT IN THAT OUTWARD L EVITICAL SYSTEM IN WHICH IT SEEMED SUPERFICIALLY TO RECEIVE ITS PERFECT EMBODIMENT .

I T IS THEN MOST REASONABLE FROM GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS TO FIND THE S OCIETY TO WHOM THE LETTER WAS ADDRESSED IN J ERUSALEM , OR IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF J ERUSALEM .

I N ACCORDANCE WITH THIS VIEW IT MAY BE ADDED THAT E USEBIUS SPEAKS ON ANOTHER AUTHORITY ( EJX EJGGRAVFWN ) OF THE C HURCH OF J ERUSALEM UP TO THE TIME OF THE REVOLT UNDER H ADRIAN AS HAVING BEEN WHOLLY COMPOSED OF
H EBREWS ’ ( SUNESTAVNAI THN PASAN EJKKLHSIVAN EJX JE BRAIVWN PISTWN H.E. 4.5; COMP . H EB . 6:14). U P TO THE SAME DATE ALL THE BISHOPS WERE OF THE CIRCUMCISION ’ ( L . C . ).

S O ALSO IN THE C LEMENTINE H OMILIES (11.35) ‘J AMES THAT IS CALLED BROTHER OF THE L ORD IS SAID TO BE ENTRUSTED WITH THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE C HURCH OF THE H EBREWS IN J ERUSALEM ’ ( PEPISTEUMEVNO " EJN I EROUSALHM THN JE BRAIVWN DIEVPEIN EJKKLHSIVAN ), AND THE LETTER OF C LEMENT PREFIXED TO THE SAME WORK IS ADDRESSED TO ‘J AMES THE L ORD AND BISHOP OF BISHOPS , WHO ADMINISTERS THE HOLY C HURCH OF H EBREWS IN J ERUSALEM ’ ( DIEVPONTI THN EJN I EROUSALHM AGIVAN JE BRAIVWN EJKKLHSIVAN ).

I T MAY THEREFORE BE FAIRLY CONCLUDED THAT WHEN THE TITLE PRO ;" JE BRAIVOU " WAS ADDED TO THE E PISTLE , IT WAS AN EXPRESSION OF THE BELIEF THAT THE LETTER WAS ADDRESSED TO THE C HURCH OF J ERUSALEM OR SOME SISTER
C HURCH IN P ALESTINE DEPENDENT UPON IT .


I N THIS RESTRICTED SENSE THE TITLE MIGHT PERHAPS BE ORIGINAL , THOUGH THIS SUPPOSITION IS , AS HAS BEEN SEEN , OTHERWISE UNLIKELY . C OMPARE THE TITLE TO KAQJ
JE BRAIVOU " EUJAGGEVLION .


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