Abstract
A vast majority of exegetes sees in Rom 3:25 a pre-Pauline formula. Wilckens mentions the 'abrogation' of Jewish temple service by Early Christianity that can be seen in Rom 3:25. Gaukesbrink focuses on Christ as _?ast_??_?, which renders temple service obsolete and offers the reason, why Early Christianity would no longer have participated in the temple cult. Cultic metaphors and the spiritualization of ritual imagery were widespread in Early Judaism. Even in the second temple in Jerusalem the celebration of Yom Kippur had to deal with a certain adaptation and transformation of rituals. Stephen's circle and the 'Hellenists' did not seek to abolish the temple-as often maintained, but rather wished to reform temple worship in a spiritualized way, i.e. by turning temple worship into a kind of synagogue worship without purity laws. Keywords:Christianity; Jerusalem; Jewish temple; Judaism; Pauline; Rom 3:25; Yom Kippur
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