Camp, Outside the

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(Heb. 13:1313Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach. (Hebrews 13:13)). The present place of believers in relation to earth, just as their present place in relation to heaven is “within the veil” (Heb. 10:19; 13:10, 1119Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, (Hebrews 10:19)
10We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. 11For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp. (Hebrews 13:10‑11)). Hence these two go together: the enjoyment of the spiritual place above of nearness to God, enabling me to bear the place of rejection with Christ down here. The expression is drawn from the action of Moses (in Ex. 33.), whose spiritual instincts when the camp (the ordinary religious profession of the day) was defiled, led him to pitch the (temporary) tabernacle outside it. There also he enjoyed God’s presence in the holiest. In Heb. 13 the phrase is connected with the fact of our Lord’s suffering, “without the gate” of the city, which in Rev. is called Sodom and Egypt, i.e., the world in its wickedness and pleasures. “The camp,” therefore, in this connection would include not only religious corruption, but every species of worldliness.