Deuteronomy 12:11 (WEB)
then it shall happen that to the place which the LORD your God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there, there you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the wave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which you vow to the LORD.
Fathers and councils · 2
Tertullian
“…introduction thither, there should there be celebrated sacrifices and holocausts, as well for sins as for souls; and nowhere else but in the holy land.” — editor's note: See Lev. xvii. 1–9; Deut. xii. 1–26.
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“As long as Judæa and the city existed, there were a type, and a lamb, and a shadow, since the law thus commanded: These things shall not be done in another city; but in the land of Judæa, and in no place without [the land of Judæa].” — editor's note: Deut. xii. 11, 13, 14.
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