For Christ is not entered "For not into any Material Sanctuary did Christ enter a (mere) imitation of the Ideal, but into Heaven itself, now to be visibly presented before the face of God for us." The Ideal or genuine Tabernacle is the eternal uncreated Archetype as contrasted with its antitype (or "imitation") made with hands. The Ideal in the Alexandrian philosophy, so far from being an antithesis of the real, meant that which aloneis absolutely and eternally real; it is the antithesis of the materialwhich is but a perishing imitation of the Archetype. The word "to be visibly presented" (ἐμφανισθῆναι) is not the same as that used in Hebrews 9:26 (πεφανέρωται "He hath been manifested,") nor with that used in Hebrews 9:28 (ὀφθήσεται "He shall be seen,") though all these are rendered in English by the verb "appear."

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