For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned without the camp.
As "the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by, etc., are burnt without the camp," so "Jesus also, that, etc., suffered without the gate" of ceremonial Judaism, of which His crucifixion outside the gate of Jerusalem is a type.
For - Reason why they who serve the tabernacle are excluded from share in Christ, because their religion is mainly concerned with "meats" (Hebrews 13:9); but His sacrifice is not like those sacrifices in which they have meats, but corresponds to one 'wholly burnt' х katakaietai (G2618)] 'burnt down,' which consequently they could not eat of: Leviticus 6:30, "No sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten; it shall be burnt in the fire." The sin offerings are twofold-the outward, whose blood was sprinkled on the outward altar, and of whose bodies the priests might eat; and the inward, the reverse. Not "we," but "have" and "eat," are emphatic in the Greek. We have the benefit of Christ's sin offering, not by literal eating; for His offering is one of a kind which "they who serve the tabernacle" have no right to "eat" (literally) - i:e., a burnt offering: Hebrews 13:11, "for the bodies, etc., are burnt without the camp" (Colossians 2:16). The sin offering, the fullest representative of Christ's atonement, has no eating of meats. On the Hebrews' own ground, Paul shows the heart must be established with grace, not meats, Hebrews 13:9. Our eating of Christ's flesh is figurative of spiritual realities, as the sacrifice of "praise" and 'doing good' is figurative (Hebrews 13:15-16). "We have an altar" cannot mean that Paul speaks as a Jew of the temple altar; for, after having proved the Jewish sacrifices were superseded by Christ's one sacrifice, he never would identify himself with his countrymen in retaining the superseded altar.
The sanctuary - the Holy of holies, into which the blood of the sin offering was brought on the day of atonement. Without the camp - in which were the tabernacle, Levitical priests, and legal worshippers, during Israel's journey through the wilderness; replaced afterward by Jerusalem (containing the temple), outside of whose walls Jesus was crucified.
Wherefore Jesus - That the Antitype might fulfill the type.
Sanctify. Though not brought into the temple "sanctuary" (Hebrews 13:11). His blood has been brought into the heavenly, and 'sanctifies the people' (Hebrews 2:11; Hebrews 2:17), by cleansing them from sin, and consecrating them to God.
His own - not blood of animals.
Without the gate - of Jerusalem; as if unworthy of the society of the covenant-people. The fiery ordeal of His suffering answers to the burning of the victim; thereby His fleshly life was completely destroyed, as their bodies were: the second part of His offering was His carrying His blood into the heavenly Holiest before God at His ascension, to be a perpetual atonement for sin.