A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Minister, х leitourgos (G3011)] - implies priestly ministry in the temple; the sanctuary, х ton (G3588) hagion (G39)] - 'the holy places:' the heavenly Holy of holies.
The true - the archetypal and antitypical contrasted with the typical and symbolical (Hebrews 9:24). х Aleethinos (G228) is opposed to that which does not fulfill its idea; for instance, a type; alethes, to that which is untrue, as a lie. The measure of aleethees (G227) is reality; that of aleethinos (G228), ideality. In aleethees (G227) the idea corresponds to the thing; in aleethinos (G228), the thing to the idea (Kahnis in Alford).]
Tabernacle (Hebrews 9:11). Through His glorified body as the "tabernacle," Christ passes into the heavenly "Holy of holies," the immediate presence of God, where He intercedes for us. This tabernacle in which God dwells is where God in Christ meets us who are "members of His body." This tabernacle answers to the heavenly Jerusalem, where God's visible presence is to be manifested to His perfected saints and angels, united in Christ the Head; in contradistinction to His invisible presence in the Holy of holies, unapproachable except to Christ. John 1:14, "Word ... dwelt among us" [eskeenosen]: 'tabernacled.'
Pitched, х epeexen (G4078)] - 'fixed' firmly.
Not man - as Moses (Hebrews 8:5).