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Earthly Priests Serve In a Copy And Shadow of The Heavenly Things

For every high priest is appointed that he might be offering both gifts and sacrifices. Hence it is[a] necessary that this One also have something which He may offer. Now indeed, if He were on earth He would not even be a priest— there being the ones offering the gifts according-to the Law, who are serving a copy and a shadow of the heavenly things, just as Moses has been warned, being about to complete the tabernacle: for “See”, He says [in Ex 25:40], “that you make everything according to the pattern having been shown to you on the mountain”.

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 8:3 Or, was; making this a specific reference to the cross instead of a general statement of principle.

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