聖書の供えのパンとは何か？「臨在のパン」とその机

The showbread was twelve loaves set out every week on a gold-covered table in the tabernacle, and later in the temple, in the presence of God. Modern translations call it the bread of the Presence. Every Sabbath the priests laid out fresh loaves and ate the old ones in a holy place (Leviticus 24:8–9). Its Hebrew name tells us what it was for. This was bread of the face, laid out week after week before God himself. Yet the best-known…