It was the 13th verse of this portion I had more particularly before my mind. The Camp was a thing understood by Israel. The Jews were deeply attached to their ancient rites, which they knew to be of God's appointment. The apostle saw the necessity of drawing them away from the shadows to the substance -- to lead them from earthly things to Jesus in the heavens, where now their worship was to be. The High Priest being in the heavens, the sacrifice there, their worship was to be there likewise. He would have them see that now it was a heavenly calling. Jesus had been rejected from the earth, and received up into heaven; Jesus had suffered without the gate, just as the bodies of the beasts offered for a sin offering were burned without the camp; and he calls upon them, in the spirit of Moses in Deut. 33: 7, "to go unto Him without the Camp, bearing his reproach."
When Paul accredited Jesus as the great sacrifice, the simple receiving this truth put him outside the camp. The thing Paul saw was the Spirit of God bringing souls into communion outside the Jewish system, etc. So with us; whatever the form, the question is, Where is God? If God is in this line of conductor in this truth -- I must be there too. For this, all that is necessary is to be prayerfully waiting upon God, and the teaching of His Spirit.
MARRIED TO ANOTHER.
"Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to Him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God. For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter." (Rom. 7: 4-6.)
There is one passage in these verses which would be more correctly rendered, "that ye should be for another." That the marriage of the Church is a thing yet future is clear, from considering 2 Cor. 11 - "I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ." See also Rev. 19: 7.
