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Chapter 15 - Land, sanctuary and worship

from III - SOME EARLY CHRISTIAN THEMES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2009

By
William Horbury
Edited by
John M. G. Barclay  and
John Philip McMurdo Sweet
John M. G. Barclay
Affiliation:
University of Glasgow
John Philip McMurdo Sweet
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
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Leading them in, plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, In thy ready dwelling, which thou, Lord, didst make, The sanctuary, Lord, which thy hands made ready.

(Exodus 15.17 LXX)

Long labours both by land and sea he bore

And in the doubtful war, before he won

The Latian realm, and built the destined town:

His banished gods restored to rites divine,

And settled sure succession in his line:

From whence the race of Alban fathers come,

And the long glories of majestic Rome.

Virgil, Aeneid i 3–7 (c. 25 bce), translated by Dryden)

For Jews, as for Greeks and Romans, the homeland and the sanctuary and its service were tangible realities and highly charged symbols. The importance and the interconnection of the three themes can more easily be seen in Jewish and gentile writings like those quoted above than in the New Testament. Yet, when Christian thought is viewed in its Jewish setting – which in this case, as often, has many points of contact with the Greek and Roman settings – the three themes stand out and their links are visible.

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Early Christian Thought in its Jewish Context , pp. 207 - 224
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 1996

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