Hebrews 9:23

For it was necessary that these which are a type of the heavenlies, with (these) things should be purified; but the heavenlies themselves with sacrifices that are more excellent than they.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

In Context

22Because every thing with blood was purified under the law; and without shedding of blood there is no remission.

24For not into the sanctuary made with hands hath the Meshiha entered, which is an emblem of the true one, but into heaven itself hath he entered, that he might appear before the face of Aloha for us.

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Cross References

Luke 24:46And he said to them, that so it is written, and so it was just, that the Meshicha should suffer, and should rise from among the dead in the three days,

Colossians 2:17which are shadows of those to come, but the body is the Meshiha.

Hebrews 9:9And this was a figurative representation for the time in which oblations and victims have been offered;-those which have not been able to perfect the consciousness of him who offered them;

Hebrews 9:24For not into the sanctuary made with hands hath the Meshiha entered, which is an emblem of the true one, but into heaven itself hath he entered, that he might appear before the face of Aloha for us.

Hebrews 10:4For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and of goats to purify (from) sins.

1 Peter 1:19but with the precious blood of the Lamb spotless and unblemished, who is the Meshiha;

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 9:16-23

The Priesthood of Christ. ( a. d. 62.) 15 And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance. 16 For where a testament is, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator. 17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth. 18 Whereupon neither the first… Read the whole commentary →

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