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Serve (latreuousin). Present active indicative of latreuō for which verb see note on Mat 4:10.
A copy (hupodeigmati). Dative case after latreuousin. See note on Joh 13:15 and note on Heb 4:11 for this interesting word.
Shadow (skiāi). Dative case. Old word for which see note on Mat 4:16; note on Mar 4:32; and note on Col 2:17. See same idea in Heb 9:23. For difference between skia and eikōn see Heb 10:1. Here “copy and shadow” form a practical hendiadys for “a shadowy outline” (Moffatt).
Is warned of God (kechrēmatistai). Perfect passive indicative of chrēmatizō, old verb (from chrēma, business) for which see note on Mat 2:12, note on Mat 2:22, and note on Luk 2:26. The word “God” is not used, but it is implied as in Act 10:22; Heb 12:25. So in lxx, Josephus, and the papyri.
For saith he (gar phēsi). Argument from God’s command (Exo 25:40).
See that thou make (Horā poiēseis). Common Greek idiom with present active imperative of horaō and the volitive future of poieō without hina (asyndeton, Robertson, Grammar, p. 949).
The pattern (ton tupon). The very word used in Exo 25:40 and quoted also by Stephen in Act 7:44. For tupos see note on Joh 20:25; note on Rom 6:17, and etc. The tabernacle was to be patterned after the heavenly model.