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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 9:1 - 9:1
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Heb 9:1-28. Inferiority of the Old to the New Covenant in the means of access to God: The blood of bulls and goats of no real avail: The Blood of Christ all-sufficient to purge away sin, whence flows our hope of His appearing again for our perfect salvation.
Then verily - Greek, “Accordingly then.” Resuming the subject from Heb 8:5. In accordance with the command given to Moses, “the first covenant had,” etc.
had - not “has,” for as a covenant it no longer existed, though its rites were observed till the destruction of Jerusalem.
ordinances - of divine right and institution.
service - worship.
a worldly sanctuary - Greek, “its (literally, ‘the’) sanctuary worldly,” mundane; consisting of the elements of the visible world. Contrasted with the heavenly sanctuary. Compare Heb 9:11, Heb 9:12, “not of this building,” Heb 9:24. Material, outward, perishing (however precious its materials were), and also defective religiously. In Heb 9:2-5, “the worldly sanctuary” is discussed; in Heb 9:6, etc., the “ordinances of worship.” The outer tabernacle the Jews believed, signified this world; the Holy of Holies, heaven. Josephus calls the outer, divided into two parts, “a secular and common place,” answering to “the earth and sea”; and the inner holiest place, the third part, appropriated to God and not accessible to men.