Hebrews 9:24 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

For Christ is not entered into the holy places, &c.— The apostle here pursues his grand point, which was to shew the infinite superiority and preference of the Christian covenant above that of the Jews. The sacrifice of Christ is more valuable than their sacrifices; the place into which Christ entered is much preferable to that into which their high-priesthood entered: the one was made with hands; the other the work of God: the Jewish tabernacle, a copy or pattern only; the Christian, an original: the Jewish tabernacle made like to things shewn in the mount; the Christian tabernacle, to the heavens themselves.

Hebrews 9:24

24 For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: