The Day of Dedication or the Day of Atonement ? the Old Testament Background to Hebrews 6 : 19 - 20 Revisited
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The greatest respect an author can receive is when another scholar offers a rejoinder to one of his articles. In the spring edition of AUSS, Richard Davidson has done me the honor of offering a criticism of my article in the same issue.' Davidson agrees that the veil mentioned in Heb 6:19 is the inner and not the outer veil of the tabernacle. This abandons the position so tenaciously defended by Adventists from Crosier to Rice.' However, Davidson then shifts the discussion from which veil is referred to in Heb 6:19-20 to the question of what OT event is behind the language employed by the author of Hebrews. This indeed is the real issue. Davidson argues that the event alluded to in Heb 6:19-20 is not the Day of Atonement, as most argue, or the Abrhamic covenant, as Rice argued, but "the complex of inauguration services of the sanctuary" as carried out by Moses acting in a priestly role (Exod 40; Lev 8: 1012; Num 7: I).' This position is very similar to the view of E. E. Andross,' who saw a close parallel between the dedication of the earthly tabernacle and the inauguration of the heavenly. He argued that the daily ministry of the Mosaic tabernacle commenced only after Moses finished anointing both apartments and had come out of the tent. Likewise, Christ, having inaugurated the whole heavenly sanctuary (including the Most Holy Place), came out into the outer apartment to commence his postascension ministry. Davidson is not so explicit concerning Christ's movement in
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تاریخ انتشار 2007