Hebrews 8:2 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 8:2

and who ministers in the sanctuary and true tabernacle set up by the Lord, not by man.

BSB

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ASV

a minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.

KJV

A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

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Commentary

7 voices

Basil of Caesarea

On the Spirit 6.15 (379)

If he assigns to the Father the upper place by way of precedence, and asserts that the only begotten Son sits below, he will find that to the creature of his imagination attach all the consequent conditions of body. And if these are the imaginations of drunken delusion and phrensied insanity, can it be consistent with true religion for men taught by the Lord himself that "He that honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father" to refuse to worship and glorify with the Father him who in nature, in glory, and in dignity is conjoined with him?

The record, by era

The Reformation1 voice

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

To this I answer, that to us mentioned here is not set in opposition to what is false, but only to what is typical; as we find in John 1:17, "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ." Then the old tabernacle was not the empty inventions of man, but the effigy of the heavenly tabernacle.

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

A minister - Who represents his own sacrifice, as the high priest did the blood of those sacrifices once a year. Of the sanctuary - Heaven, typified by the holy of holies. And of the true tabernacle - Perhaps his human nature, of which the old tabernacle was a type.

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

Where he now resides: He sits on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty on high, that is, of the glorious God of heaven. There the Mediator is placed, and he is possessed of all authority and power both in heaven and upon earth.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

A minister of the sanctuary - Των ἁγιων λειτουργος· A public minister of the holy things or places. The word λειτουργος, from λειτος, public, and εργον, a work or office, means a person who officiated for the public, a public officer; in whom, and his work, all the people had a common right: hence our word liturgy, the public work of prayer and praise, designed for the people at large; all having a right to attend it, and each having an equal interest in it.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Here the heavenly sanctuary is meant. the true--the archetypal and antitypical, as contrasted with the typical and symbolical (Heb 9:24). Greek "alethinos" (used here) is opposed to that which does not fulfil its idea, as for instance, a type; "alethes," to that which is untrue and unreal, as a lie.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
τῶν	tōn	in the	G3588 →
ἁγίων	hagiōn	Holy [Places]	G39 →
λειτουργὸς	leitourgos	a minister	G3011 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
τῆς	tēs	in the	G3588 →
σκηνῆς	skēnēs	tabernacle	G4633 →
τῆς	tēs	<the>	G3588 →
ἀληθινῆς,	alēthinēs	true,	G228 →
ἣν	hēn	which	G3739 →
ἔπηξεν	epēxen	has pitched	G4078 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
κύριος,	kurios	Lord,	G2962 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἄνθρωπος.	anthrōpos	man.	G444 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Corinthians 5:1
Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is dismantled, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.
leads to
- Job 19:25–26
  But I know that my Redeemer lives, and in the end He will stand upon the earth.
- 1 John 3:2
  Beloved, we are now children of God, and what we will be has not yet been revealed. We know that when Christ appears, we will be like Him, for we will see Him as…
- 2 Peter 1:13–14
  I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of my body,
- 2 Corinthians 4:7
  Now we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this surpassingly great power is from God and not from us.
- Hebrews 9:24
  For Christ did not enter a man-made copy of the true sanctuary, but He entered heaven itself, now to appear on our behalf in the presence of God.
Through
Romans 15:8
For I tell you that Christ has become a servant of the circumcised on behalf of God’s truth, to confirm the promises made to the patriarchs,
leads to
- Matthew 15:24
  He answered, “I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.”
- Galatians 4:4–5
  But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,
- John 1:11
  He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Hebrews

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Hebrews