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NASB | Leviticus 19:19 ¶ 'You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear a garment upon you of two kinds of material mixed together. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Leviticus 19:19 ¶ 'You are to keep My statutes. You shall not breed together two kinds of your cattle; you shall not sow your field with two kinds of seed, nor wear clothing of two kinds of material mixed together. |
Subject: Wearing the clothes of the Priests? |
Bible Note: Dear MJH, I'll do my best... 1) Jesus Zeal for the House of God (sic) Per John 2:17, this was a prophetic fulfillment of Psalm 69:9. Reviewing that verse we see David using the phrase "thine house" to refer to the whole worship of God. As Christ's exemplified, we are to be zealous for God's truth (orthodoxy) and commands (orthopraxy). 2) Continually going to the temple for prayers (Acts 2:46) The apostles were careful observers of the Jewish hours of prayer. I see this as a natural expression of Jewish converts in the primitive church. Where else would they go to manifest adoration to and dependence on the Lord? The church was in its very early infancy -- only a matter of months old. Normative Christian worship would be worked out by the apostles over a subsequent period of years. We even see errant practices corrected in the epistles of James and, later, Paul. As a Jew, if I ever visit Jerusalem, I would love to go to the Wailing Wall. As a Christian I'd be forbidden to pray there, at least in an overt way. However, it would be a huge error to imagine that a person's prayers were more efficacious there than in other places! The shekinah now dwells within fleshly temples, it no longer dwells within stony ones. 3) Paul participating in temple feasts. Ditto. 4) Paul participating in sacrifices at the temple. Ditto. However, I'd add, if Paul participated in a sin offering of any sort, then he'd be under far greater blame than that which he accused Peter in Galatians 2:11. Oh my... far worse! 5) The text of Colossians 2:16-17 We needn't worry about the verb tense in verse 17 to properly exegete the passage. Paul was dealing with the error involving Eastern asceticism and mysticism that had crept into the church. Read the subsequent verses, "Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind, and not holding fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, nourished and knit together through its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that is from God." (Colossians 2:18-19 ESV) The books of Galatians and Hebrews would be the appropriate places from which to derive a Christian's proper understanding of Judaism. In Him, Doc |