The Tamid connection does more work than most versions of this argument, because "memorial" in cultic usage was never bare recollection. Emser pressed the same point from the Daniel side in 1523: "Or let Luther tell me what else is to be understood by that continual sacrifice which Daniel foretold would cease only in the time of Antichrist." (Emser, tr. Tucker, p. 187) The continual offering of Daniel is the tamid under another name, which makes the Mishnah material here the missing half of a much older debate. It is striking how much of the 1520s controversy was already an argument over what the daily sacrifice meant.
"This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind."
- St. Cyprian -
The Tamid connection does more work than most versions of this argument, because "memorial" in cultic usage was never bare recollection. Emser pressed the same point from the Daniel side in 1523: "Or let Luther tell me what else is to be understood by that continual sacrifice which Daniel foretold would cease only in the time of Antichrist." (Emser, tr. Tucker, p. 187) The continual offering of Daniel is the tamid under another name, which makes the Mishnah material here the missing half of a much older debate. It is striking how much of the 1520s controversy was already an argument over what the daily sacrifice meant.