{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/204/2040441.htm","path":"chr/ecf/204/2040441.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/204/2040441.htm","text":"Let us all take up our sacrifices, observing distribution to the poor, and enter into the holy place, as it is written; \u2018whither also our forerunner Jesus is entered for us, having obtained eternal redemption 4561 .\u2019\u2026(From the same:)\u2026And this is a great proof that, whereas we were strangers, we are called friends; from being formerly aliens, we are become fellow-citizens with the saints, and are called children of the Jerusalem which is above, whereof that which Solomon built was a type. For if Moses made all things according to the pattern shewed him in the mount, it is clear that the service performed in the tabernacle was a type of the heavenly mysteries, whereto the Lord, desirous that we should enter, prepared for us the new and abiding way. And as all the old things were a type of the new, so the festival that now is, is a type of the joy which is above, to which coming with psalms and spiritual songs, let us begin the fasts 4562 .\nHeb. vi. 20; ix. 12.\n553:4562\nThis fragment is the latest writing of Athanasius that we possess.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. IV: Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life.: (For 373.)","type":"page"}