Verse 9
9. Which All agree that this relative refers to first tabernacle, in Hebrews 9:8. And that further demonstrates that the whole one tabernacle was meant: for is it not clear that it was the one whole tabernacle which was a figure, a parable, of the inefficacy of the type without the antitype? Were not the incense and blood as inefficacious, intrinsically, in the holiest as in the holy?
For the time then present Rather, for the time now insetting; that is, time that is now begun and is in progress. The same phrase is used at Romans 8:38; 1Co 3:22 ; 1 Corinthians 7:26; Galatians 1:4; also, 2 Thessalonians 2:2, where see note.
Were offered The Greek is in the present tense, are offered. The offerings are still made, for the temple at the apostle’s writing is still standing, and the inefficacy of the ritual still exists.
Make… perfect Render justified and right.
Conscience The moral consciousness of guilt or innocence.
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