Hebrews 9 — Verse 24 (Introduction)

The opposition between the high priests of the law, and their sacrifices, with their efficacy, and the Lord Christ with his sacrifice and its efficacy, is farther carried on in this verse. And this is done in an instance of a dissimilitude between them, as it was shewed in general before, in how many things they did agree. And this dissimilitude consists in the place and manner of the discharge of their office, after the great expiatory sacrifice, which each of them did offer.

The causal connexion of the words does also intimate, that a farther evidence is given to what was before laid down; namely, that heavenly things were purified by the blood of Christ. For as an assurance thereof, upon the dedication of the new Covenant, he entered into Heaven itself. Had he purified the things only on the earth, we could have entered only into an earthly sanctuary, as did the high priest of old. But he is entered, as the Apostle now declares, into Heaven itself, which in the gracious presence of God therein, is the spring and center of all the things purified by his sacrifice.

[〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], Syr.[〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉]into the House of the Sanctuary. Sancta; Sacrarium; Sanctuarium; Sancta Sanctorum; the most holy place. [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], Manufacta; manibus extructa; built with hands. [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], Syriack,[〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉]which is the similitude of that which is true. Vul. Exemplaria verorum. Exemplar respondens veris illis. An example answering to the true, a resemblance of the true. [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉]; Syr.[〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉]before the face; faciei, vultui, conspectui; in the presence.