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Made with hands (cheiropoiēta). See Heb 9:11 for this word.
Like in pattern to the true (antitupa tōn alēthinōn). Late compound word, only twice in N.T. (here, 1Pe 3:21). Polybius uses antitupos for infantry “opposite” to the cavalry. In modern Greek it means a copy of a book. Here it is the “counterpart of reality” (Moffatt). Moses was shown a tupos (model) of the heavenly realities and he made an antitupon on that model, “answering to the type” (Dods) or model. In 1Pe 3:21 antitupos has the converse sense, “the reality of baptism which corresponds to or is the antitype of the deluge” (Dods).
Now to appear (nun emphanisthēnai). Purpose clause by the first aorist passive infinitive of emphanizō (Mat 27:53; Joh 14:21.). For the phrase see Psa 42:3. For this work of Christ as our High Priest and Paraclete in heaven see Heb 7:25; Rom 8:34; 1Jo 2:1.