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The New Priestly Service

1 Now this is the main point of the things we are saying: We have such a High Priest, awho is seated at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,  
2 a Minister of athe sanctuary and of bthe true tabernacle which the Lord erected, and not man.  
3 For aevery high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore bit is necessary that this One also have something to offer.  
4 For if He were on earth, He would not be a priest, since there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law;
5 who serve athe copy and bshadow of the heavenly things, as Moses was divinely instructed when he was about to make the tabernacle. For He said, c“See that you make all things according to the pattern shown you on the mountain.”  
6 But now aHe has obtained a more excellent ministry, inasmuch as He is also Mediator of a bbetter covenant, which was established on better promises.  

A New Covenant

7 For if that afirst covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second.  
8 Because finding fault with them, He says: a“Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah—  
9 not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they did not continue in My covenant, and I disregarded them, says the Lord.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Hebrews 8:2

minister—The Greek term implies priestly ministry in the temple.

the sanctuary—Greek, "the holy places"; the Holy of Holies. Here the heavenly sanctuary is meant.

the true—the archetypal and antitypical, as contrasted with the typical and symbolical (Hebrews 9:24). Greek "alethinos" (used here) is opposed to that which does not fulfil its idea, as for instance, a type; "alethes," to that which is untrue and unreal, as a lie. The measure of alethes is reality; that of alethinos, ideality. In alethes the idea corresponds to the thing; in alethinos, the thing to the idea [KALMIS in ALFORD].

tabernacle— (Hebrews 9:11). His body. Through His glorified body as the tabernacle, Christ passes into the heavenly "Holy of Holies," the immediate immaterial presence of God, where He intercedes for us. This tabernacle in which God dwells, is where God in Christ meets us who are "members of His body, of His flesh, and of His bones." This tabernacle answers to the heavenly Jerusalem, where God's visible presence is to be manifested to His perfected saints and angels, who are united in Christ the Head; in contradistinction to His personal invisible presence in the Holy of Holies unapproachable save to Christ. John 1:14, "Word . . . dwelt among us," Greek, "tabernacled."

pitched—Greek, "fixed" firmly.

not man—as Moses (Hebrews 8:5).




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hebrews 8:2:

Isaiah 4:5
Hebrews 8:1
Hebrews 8:3
Hebrews 9:11
Hebrews 9:23
Hebrews 11:10

 

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