104. And for the rest, most dear brethren,
consider that Jesus suffered without the gate, and do you go forth out
of this earthly city, for your city is Jerusalem which is above.
Let your conversation be there, that you may say: “But our
conversation is in heaven.” Phil. iii. 20.
Therefore did Jesus go forth out of the city, that you going out of
this world may be above the world. Moses alone, who saw God, had
his tabernacle without the camp when he talked with God; Ex. xxxiii. 7. and the blood indeed of the victims
which were offered for sin, was brought to the altar, but the bodies
were burnt without the camp; Ex. xxix. 12, 13. for no one
placed amidst the evil of this world can lay aside sin, nor is his
blood accepted of God, except he go forth from the defilement of this
body.