476 Hebrews Xii. 24.

sanctuary was His Ascension into heaven ; and indeed, at the death of Christ, the veil of the earthly temple was rent asunder, and then the true sanctuary, heaven, was opened ; but the en trance itself was made by ascending into heaven. The resurrec tion took place on the third day after His death ; His ascension, forty days after the resurrection. Moreover Christ entered into the sanctuary by His own blood ; not merely after the blood was shed, and by the force of its being shed, nor with the blood taken back into the body, but BY the blood : therefore this Priest Him self carried into the sanctuary His own blood separately from His body (Scherzerus, in Syst., p. 390 , accuses one of rashness, who thought that the particles of Christ's blood which adhered to the lash, to the crown of thorns, and to the nails, and the drops of blood shed, were miraculously preserved on the earth, and were multiplied in the Eucharist); and at the very time of His entrance or ascension Christ had His blood separate from His body. His body was bloodless ; yet not lifeless, but alive. The blood in His body would not have agreed with the type of the priest under the Old Testament, who entered into the sanctuary with the blood of animals. See ch. ix. 7, 25, and especially ver. 12, where 3/' and dia entirely correspond to each other with the same meaning. Wltsius, in Diss. de sacerdotio Aaronis et Christi, T. I. Misc., p. 510, where he treats of the passage Heb. xiii. 11, acknowledges, that the analogy betiveen the type and the antitype should be preserved; but he at the same time interprets the blood of Christ to be His soul, not correctly : for blood, properly so called, is denoted, as in the type, so in the antitype. Comp. Exx. in Symb. ap., p. 171. Moreover there is a still weaker ex planation given by Sibrandus Lubbertus, lib. ii. c. Socin. de J. C. Servatore, c. 21 : " We read concerning the annual sacrifice, Lev. xvi., that its blood was carried into the most holy place ; but there is a great difference between this blood and the blood of Christ. For the material blood, that was shed when the animal victim was slain, was carried into the sanctuary ; but the material blood of Christ, which was shed when He was slain for us, was NOT carried into heaven. What then was done 1 As the priest under the law appeared in the Levitical sanctuary with the blood of the victim slain for himself and the people, so Christ appears for us in heaven, not with the material blood that