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7 Remember those who1 rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct.  
8 Jesus Christ is athe same yesterday, today, and forever.  
9 Do not be carried1 about with various and strange doctrines. For it is good that the heart be established by grace, not with foods which have not profited those who have been occupied with them.  
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tabernacle have no right to eat.
11 For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp.
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Hebrews 13:9

"Foods" represent physical, ritual observances. God is the author of rituals as well, and they have their place. Paul is referring to the ritual observances, the ceremonies, of the Old Covenant, as food was involved with them. But over the years, people came to have a superstitious attitude toward such things—that if, for instance, they ate of something that had been offered in sacrifice, it would impart to them some spiritual strength. Of course, it could not. We receive spiritual strength from spiritual things.

John W. Ritenbaugh
Grace Upon Grace

Related Topics: Ceremony | Food | Food and Drink Offerings | Food, Spiritual | Food, Symbolism of | Foods, Abstaining from | Old Covenant | Spiritual Food | Spiritual Strength


 
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