“We have an altar.” Since Paul said that we should not observe
foods, lest they think our offerings are shameful by being unobserved, he says:
For do we not also have observances? But not of foods, rather of our altar,
namely, of the unbloody sacrifice of the life-giving body. For even the very
high priests of the Jews are not permitted to partake of this; for they who
serve in the tabernacle, as it were, in the type and shadow, and not in truth. (Commentary
on the Epistle to the Hebrews By Oecumenius, also known as The
Pseudo-Oecumenian Catena on Hebrews [trans. John Litteral; 2025], 191)
