Hebrews 9:11

Heb. 9:11. But Christ being come a high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;

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good things to come] In this expression is reference to that in v. 9 which was a figure for the time then present. [That is to say not of this Building] t??te ?t?? ?t?s?? not of this creation [see last col. but one **** p. 869 G c.] The apostle did express his full meaning in the foregoing clause "a greater and more perfect Tabernacle not made with Hands" and therefore he explains himself here to extend something further than those words do strictly imply. He signifies that he intends not merely a Tabernacle not made with hands but not brought into being according to the common course of things in this old creation made by God (as the human nature of Christ was the Tabernacle here meant) in an extraordinary (?) natural manner.

The apostle seems to use the phrase "not made with hands" in 2 Corinthians 5:1 [see p. 871 M/H see p. 868 u.e]. This Tabernacle was not formed according to the course of things in this old creation but it is of the new creation which the apostle often calls the world to come. The things of which he in this verse calls good things to come. See reasons confirming this interpretation in Poole's Synopsis and Owen in Loc. p. 363 & 364 a.b.

Some pretend, that in that expression, through the faith of the operation of God, there is no respect to God's operation as the efficient cause of faith, but only to the operation of God that raised Christ as the object of faith, which believes that power and operation as it was manifested in raising Christ, and which is believed to be sufficient to raise us up also. But that the apostle means the operation of God in giving faith, appears by Colossians 2:11, which introduces these words, where the apostle says - "In whom ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ." This phrase, made without hands, in Scripture, always denotes God's immediate power, above the course of nature, and above second causes. Thus, when he speaks of heaven, 2 Corinthians 5:1, he calls it "a house not made with hands," and in Hebrews 9:11, the human nature of Christ, which was framed by so wonderful and supernatural a power of the Holy Ghost, is said to be a "tabernacle made without hands."

Note : The foregoing remarks concerning the texts in Ephesians 1:19; Ephesians 1:20, and in Colossians 2:11-13, are taken chiefly from Dr. Goodwin's Works, Vol. I p. 298, etc.

Heb. 9:12