Now {1} of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; (1) He briefly repeats that to which all these things are to be referred, that is, that we have another High Priest t...
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Now {1} of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; (1) He briefly repeats that to which all these things are to be referred, that is, that we have another High Priest than those Levitical high priests, even such a one as sits at the right hand of the Most High God in heaven.
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{2} A minister of the {a} sanctuary, {3} and of the {b} true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. (2) They of Levi were high priests in an earthly sanctuary, but Christ is in the heavenly. (a) Of heaven. (3) They of Levi exercised their priesthood in a frail tabernacl...
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{2} A minister of the {a} sanctuary, {3} and of the {b} true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. (2) They of Levi were high priests in an earthly sanctuary, but Christ is in the heavenly. (a) Of heaven. (3) They of Levi exercised their priesthood in a frail tabernacle, but Christ bears about with him another tabernacle, that is, his body, which God himself made everlasting, as shall later be declared in Heb 9:11. (b) Of his body.