March 22nd: Exodus 29 & Matthew 25:31-46

Alastair Roberts

March 22nd: Exodus 29 & Matthew 25:31-46

March 21, 2020

Alastair Roberts

Alastair Roberts

The consecration of the priests. The sheep and the goats.

Some passages referenced:

Exodus 40, Leviticus 8 (performance of the ritual of Exodus 29); Leviticus 4:7 (blood of the sin offering generally put on the horns of the altar of incense); Leviticus 14:14 (blood placed on three ‘corners’ of the cleansed leper); Leviticus 7:29-34 (wave offering of the breast and the contribution of the thigh).

Matthew 10:40-42 (Jesus’ identification with the disciples sent out earlier); Matthew 10:12-15 (test of hospitality in Israel); Hebrews 13:2 (entertaining angels unawares); Ezekiel 16:48-50 (judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah for their inhospitality).

Reflections upon the readings from the ACNA Book of Common Prayer (http://bcp2019.anglicanchurch.net/).

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