Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 9:2
Hebrews 9:2. For there was a tabernacle, &c.— Concerning the tabernacle and its furniture we refer to the notes on that subject in Exodus. read more
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Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 9:3
Hebrews 9:3. The holiest of all;— Or, The holy of holies. read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:2
2. Defining "the worldly tabernacle." a tabernacle—"the tabernacle." made—built and furnished. the first—the anterior tabernacle. candlestick . . . table—typifying light and life ( :-). The candlestick consisted of a shaft and six branches of gold, seven in all, the bowls made like almonds, with a knop and a flower in one branch. It was carried in Vespasian's triumph, and the figure is to be seen on Titus' arch at Rome. The table of shittim wood, covered with gold, was for the showbread ( :-).... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:3
3. And—Greek, "But." after—behind; within. second veil—There were two veils or curtains, one before the Holy of Holies (catapetasma), here alluded to, the other before the tabernacle door (calumma). called—as opposed to "the true." read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 9:1-5
The "first covenant" was the Mosaic Covenant. The writer compared it first to the New Covenant that replaced it. The outer tabernacle (lit. dwelling place) was the holy place (Hebrews 9:2), and the inner tabernacle was the holy of holies (Hebrews 9:3). "The table and the sacred bread" (Hebrews 9:2) is a hendiadys for "the table of sacred bread." A hendiadys is a figure of speech in which a writer expresses a single complex idea by joining two substantives with "and" rather than by using an... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 9:1-10
The heavenly sanctuary 9:1-10"In case any of the readers should think that the writer was underestimating the old, he now outlines some of the glories of the old tabernacle. He is impressed by the orderliness of the arrangements within the Levitical cultus, and aims to present this in order to demonstrate the greater glory of the new." [Note: Guthrie, p. 178.] In this pericope the writer concentrated on the tabernacle and its provisions for cultic worship. "Cultic" refers to the rituals... read more
John Dummelow
John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 9:1-28
The New Covenant and the Sacrifice of ChristHebrews 9:1 to Hebrews 10:39. The writer now proceeds to elaborate in greater detail the contrast between the old covenant and the new. The old covenant had its tabernacle with furniture and elaborate ceremonial and continual series of sacrifices, culminating in the annual visit of the high priest to the inner chamber of the tabernacle with sacrificial blood. But these very ceremonies implied the impossibility of communion with God, and were unable to... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 9:2
(2) Tabernacle.—It must be carefully observed that the Epistle throughout refers to the Tabernacle, and not once to the Temples which succeeded it. Though they were formed on the same general model, their very nature and design necessitated changes of plan and detail which unfitted them for the writer’s argument here. So far as the Temple was a copy of the Tabernacle, and so far only, was it made “after the pattern” that Moses had seen; and so far only was its symbolism of divine and not human... read more
Charles John Ellicott
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 9:3
(3) The tabernacle.—Rather, a tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies. This literal translation of a Hebrew expression for “most holy” does not occur in the Bible, but has become familiar through the Latin sanctum sanctorum. The inner chamber of the Tabernacle is in a few passages only mentioned separately in the Pentateuch as the “Most Holy Place”(Exodus 26:33-34), or “the Holy Place” (Leviticus 16:2, et al.). In the description of the Temple a different word is employed, always rendered... read more
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Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 9:3
And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holy of Holies.The only access to that Holy of Holies was through the veil, a description of which is afforded by Exodus 26:31ff. It was this veil which was parted in twain from the top to the bottom at the time of our Lord's crucifixion (Matthew 27:51), thus being brought into focus to reveal an astonishing weight of symbolism.THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLEThe three colors of the veil (Exodus 26:31ff), blue above, scarlet beneath, and... read more