[a]Which was a figure [b]for that present time, wherein were offered gifts and sacrifices that could not make holy, concerning the conscience, him that did the service,

10 [c]Which only stood in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal rites, [d]which were enjoined, until the time of reformation.

11 [e]But Christ being come an high Priest of good things to come, [f]by a [g]greater and a more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this building,

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 9:9 An objection: If the way were not opened into heaven by those sacrifices (that is to say, If the worshippers were not purged by them) why then were those ceremonies used? to wit, that men might be called back to that spiritual example, that is to say, to Christ, who should correct all those things at his coming.
  2. Hebrews 9:9 For that time that that figure had to last.
  3. Hebrews 9:10 Another reason why they could not make clean the conscience of the worshipper, to wit, because they were outward and carnal or corporal things.
  4. Hebrews 9:10 For they were as you would say a burden, from which Christ delivered us.
  5. Hebrews 9:11 Now he entereth into the declaration of the figures, and first of all comparing the Levitical high Priest with Christ, (that is to say, the figure with the thing itself) he attributeth to Christ the administration of good things to come, that is, everlasting, which those carnal things had respect unto.
  6. Hebrews 9:11 Another comparison of the first corruptible Tabernacle with the latter (that is to say, with the human nature of Christ) which is the true incorruptible Temple of God, whereinto which the Son of GOD entered, as the Levitical high Priests into the other which was frail and transitory.
  7. Hebrews 9:11 By a more excellent and better.

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