1Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
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And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.
Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. …
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)Here, I. The apostle gives an account of the tabernacle, that place of worship which God appointed to be pitched on earth; it is called a worldly sanctuary, wholly of this world, as to the materials of which it was built, and a building that must be taken down; it is called a worldly sanctuary , because it was the court and palace of the King of Israel. God was their King, and, as other kings, had…
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