95Or, Now to sum up what we are saying: We have etc.
96Gk. upon
8: 2 a minister of 97the Holies, even of the true 98tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, not man.
97Evidently the Holies = the Holy + the Holy of holies, both compartments in the tent. Or, the sanctuary,
98Or, tent, and so elsewhere.
8: 3 For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer.
8: 4 Now if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are those who offer the gifts according to the law;
8: 5 who serve that which is a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses is warned of God when he is about to 99make the tabernacle: for, 100See, saith he, thou shalt make all things according to the 101pattern that was shown thee in the mount.
99Or, complete or, erect
100Ex 25:40.
101Gk. τυπος, type
8: 6 But now hath he obtained a ministry the more excellent, by so much as he is also the mediator of a mightier covenant, which hath been enacted upon mightier promises.
8: 7 For if that first covenant had been 102faultless, then would no place have been sought for a second covenant.
102Or perhaps, flawless,
8: 8 For 103finding fault with them, he saith, 104Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, That I will 105make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
103So ℵ*A I 33 81 copsa,bo,fay arm vg. But p46B 1739 and a majority of lesser Gk. mss. read finding fault with it, he saith unto them, etc.
104Jer 31:31-34.
105Gk. accomplish
8: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers In the day that I took them by the hand to lead them forth out of the land of Egypt; For they continued not in my covenant, And I regarded them not, saith the Lord.
8: 10 For this is the covenant that 106I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them a God, And they shall be to me a people:
106Gk. I will covenant with
8: 11 And they shall not teach every man his fellow-citizen, And every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: For all shall know me, From the least to the greatest of them.
8: 12 For I will be merciful to their iniquities, And their sins will I remember no more.
8: 13 In that he saith, A new covenant he hath made the first covenant old. But that which is becoming old and waxeth aged is nigh unto vanishing away.
