Hebrews 13:10 - Exposition

We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. Here there is a plain allusion to the eating of offered sacrifices. If, then, there was no such allusion in the preceding verse, what is the connection of thought? It appears to be this: "Some would teach you that meats are of religious importance. Nay, but what are meats to us who have Christ himself for our spiritual food? This is our peculiar privilege, not shared by the very priests of the old dispensation." Then, in Hebrews 13:11 , "That this is so is shown by the very symbolism of the Day of Atonement." Then, in Hebrews 13:12 , "Let us, then, be well content to leave Judaism entirely, and cleave to Christ alone." By "those that serve ( λατρεύοντες ) the tabernacle" are meant the priests of the Law, whose service is, as in former passages, referred to as still going on. It is evidently implied that we have the right which they have not.