Abstract
IN commenting on Luke 21:5–6 Bede presented the traditional reason as to why the temple of Jerusalem was destroyed. He asserted that the old priestly cult and blood sacrifices were replaced by Christ, the true priest who cleansed those who believed in him through his own blood. More unusually, Bede also claimed that the destruction occurred lest someone, as yet weak in faith, might see the elaborate rituals of the temple-cult and, admiring them, be lost to the true faith. A number of years later he adapted this statement when commenting on Mark 13:1–2 to suggest that one still weak in faith might fall to following carnal Judaism because the temple and its ceremonies, which had been founded by holy prophets and established by the Lord, still existed.1 The change suggests a subtle shift in Bede’s emphasis over time, from the external grandeur of the temple-cult to its divine origins.
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