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
.