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Hebrews 9:1

The first covenant had also ordinances - Our translators have introduced the word covenant, as if had been, if not originally in the text, yet in the apostle' s mind. Several MSS., but not of good note, as well as printed editions, with the Coptic version, have tabernacle; but this is omitted by ABDE, several others, both the Syriac, Ethiopic, Armenian, Vulgate, some copies of the Itala, and several of the Greek fathers; it is in all probability a spurious reading, the whole context showing that covenant is that to which the apostle refers, as that was the subject in the preceding chapter, and this is a continuation of the same discourse.

Ordinances - · Rites and ceremonies.

A worldly sanctuary - ̔ . It is supposed that the term worldly, here, is opposed to the term heavenly, Hebrews 8:5; and that the whole should be referred to the carnality or secular nature of the tabernacle service. But I think there is nothing plainer than that the apostle is speaking here in praise of this sublimely emblematic service, and hence he proceeds to enumerate the various things contained in the first tabernacle, which added vastly to its splendor and importance; such as the table of the show-bread, the golden candlestick, the golden censer, the ark of the covenant overlaid round about with gold, in which was the golden pot that had the manna, Aaron' s rod that budded, and the two tables which God had written with his own finger: hence I am led to believe that is here taken in its proper, natural meaning, and signifies adorned, embellished, splendid; and hence , the world: Tota hujus universi machina, coelum et terram complectens et quicquid utroque contineter , dicitur, quod nihil ea est mundius, pulchrius, et ornatius . "The whole machine of this universe, comprehending the heavens and the earth, and whatsoever is contained in both, is called , because nothing is more beautiful, more fair, and more elegant." So Pliny, Hist. Nat., l. ii. c. 5: Nam quem Graeci nomine ornamenti appellaverunt, eum nos a perfecta absolutaque elegantia, Mundum . "That which the Greeks call , ornament, we, (the Latins), from its perfect and absolute elegance call mundum, world." See on Genesis 2:1 (note).

The Jews believe that the tabernacle was an epitome of the world; and it is remarkable, when speaking of their city, that they express this sentiment by the same Greek word, in Hebrew letters, which the apostle uses here: so in Bereshith Rabba, s. 19, fol. 19: col kozmikon ( ) shelo sham hu . "All his world is placed there." Philo says much to the same purpose.

If my exposition be not admitted, the next most likely is, that God has a worldly tabernacle as well as a heavenly one; that he as truly dwelt in the Jewish tabernacle as he did in the heaven of heavens; the one being his worldly house, the other his heavenly house.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing Hebrews 9:1:

Romans 5:18
1 Peter 3:3

 

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