Then verily the first tabernacle had also ordinances Rather, "To resume then, even the first (covenant) had its ordinances." No substantive is expressed with "first," but the train of reasoning in the last chapter sufficiently shews that "Covenant," not "Tabernacle," is the word to be supplied.

had Although he often refers to the Levitic ordinances as still continuing, he here contemplates them as obsolete and practically annulled.

and a worldly sanctuary Rather, "and its sanctuary a material one." The word kosmikon, rendered "worldly," means that the Jewish Sanctuary was visible and temporary a mundanestructure in contrast to the Heavenly, Eternal Sanctuary. The adjective "worldly" only occurs here and in Titus 2:12.

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