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Heb_9:24. Confirmatory justification of αὐτὰ τὰ ἐπουράνια , Heb_9:23, by the proof that in reality the heavenly sanctuary is that consecrated by the sacrifice of Christ. Wrongly is it assumed by Delitzsch, that at Heb_9:24 the indispensable requirement of better sacrifices for the heavenly world is proved from the actual nature of the one rendered and presented to God. For the argument passes over to the character of Christ’s sacrifice, as offered once for all, only at Heb_9:25.
οὐ γὰρ εἰς χειροποίητα ἅγια εἰσῆλθεν Χριστός ] for Christ entered not into a holy place (i.e. most holy place, see at Heb_9:8) made with hands (Heb_9:11).
χειροποίητα ] as the main idea emphatically preposed.
ἀντίτυπα τῶν ἀληθινῶν ] a copy of the true (Heb_8:2), real one. ἀντίτυπα denotes neither the copy of a copy, as is supposed by Bleek, after the precedent of Michaelis, ad Peirc., Cramer, Chr. Fr. Schmid, upon the presupposition that the author already thought of the τύπος , Heb_8:5, as a mere copy of the original; nor is it to be taken as equivalent to the simple τύπος , as is done by Chrysostom, Theophylact, Jac. Cappellus, Schlichting, Grotius, Wolf, Carpzov, and others. What is meant is the corresponding image, i.e. the copy or imitation, formed after the proportions of the τύπος or pattern, which God had shown to Moses (comp. Heb_8:5). The expression, therefore, is of essentially the same import as ὑπόδειγμα , Heb_8:5, Heb_9:23.
ἀλλ ̓ εἰς αὐτὸν τὸν οὐρανόν ] but into heaven itself, into the heavenly Holy of Holies, where the throne of God itself exists, in opposition to the earthly Most Holy Place, not to the heavenly fore-tabernacle, Heb_9:11.
υῦν ἐμφανισθῆναι τῷ προσώπῳ τοῦ θεοῦ ὑπὲρ ἡμῶν ] now to appear before the face of God on our behalf (as our advocate, and intent upon our salvation, comp. Heb_7:25).
νῦν ] now, after He has obtained His abiding dwelling-place in heaven.
Before the face of God. In this respect, too, a pointing to the exaltedness of Christ, the heavenly high priest. For, according to Exo_33:20, no man could continue to live who had seen the face of God; on which account also the earthly high priest might not even enter the earthly Holy of Holies until this had first been filled with the smoke of the altar of incense, and in this way the typical presence of God there existing had been veiled from his glance. Comp. Lev_16:12-13.