5Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
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And look that thou make them after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.
Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
And thou shalt rear up the tabernacle according to the fashion thereof which was shewed thee in the mount.
All this, said David, the LORD made me understand in writing by his hand upon me, even all the works of this pattern.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Here is, I. A summary recital of what had been said before concerning the excellency of Christ’s priesthood, showing what we have in Christ, where he now resides, and what sanctuary he is the minister of, Heb. 8:1 , 2 . Observe, 1. What we have in Christ; we have a high priest, and such a high priest as no other people ever had, no age of the world, or of the church, ever produced; all others were…
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