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Editorial footnote · Festal Letters, Chapter uncertain; original source section: Chapter 30, editorial note cite_note-2 · Original source
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Chapter uncertain; original source section: Chapter 30
Complete historical editorial footnotes. These notes retain the original edition’s wording; individual note authors are unspecified.
English translation and editorial credits: Henry Burgess (Oxford Festal Letters translation; historical edition linkage), Henry Griffin Williams (Oxford editorial revision; qualified H.G.W. match), Miss Payne-Smith (Oxford translation revision; qualified Jessie Payne Margoliouth match), Archibald Robertson (introduction and revised notes).
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Let us all take up our sacrifices, observing distribution to the poor, and enter into the holy place, as it is written; ‘whither also our forerunner Jesus is entered for us, having obtained eternal redemption.’…(From the same:)…And this is a great proof that, whereas we were strangers, we are called friends; from being formerly aliens, we are become fellow-citizens with the saints, and are called children of the Jerusalem which is above, whereof that which Solomon built was a type. For if Moses made all things according to the pattern shewed him in the mount, it is clear that the service performed in the tabernacle was a type of the heavenly mysteries, whereto the Lord, desirous that we should enter, prepared for us the new and abiding way. And as all the old things were a type of the new, so the festival that now is, is a type of the joy which is above, to which coming with psalms and spiritual songs, let us begin the fasts.