Hebreus 9
Theodoret of Cyrus · Comentário Patrístico (catena)
Hebreus 9:1-3
This is the term he used of the tabernacle, which represents a type of the whole world: it is divided into two down the middle by a veil, one part of it called Holy, the other Holy of Holies. While the Holy represented the way of life on earth, the Holy of Holies represented life in heaven. The veil itself performed the function of the firmament.… Accordingly, just as he separates what is below from what is above, so the veil stretched out in the middle of the tabernacle divided the Holy of Holies from the Holy. — INTERPRETATION OF HEBREWS 9
Hebreus 9:8-10
We are being taught through figures, he is saying, that the law bears of this life and is appropriate for those who still have a moral nature.… He also clearly taught us in these words that he does not reject the law as a whole—only the regulations about eating and drinking, menstruation, leprosy, childbirth and periods; they washed themselves and purified themselves with sprinkling, but none of this could make the conscience pure. Now none of these was imposed without reason but to meet some need, specifying which is not relevant at the present time. They were all temporary, however, looking forward to the time of perfection. — INTERPRETATION OF HEBREWS 9
Hebreus 9:11
Here he referred to human nature, which Christ the Lord assumed. It was not made in accordance with the law of marriage: the all-holy Spirit was responsible for the tabernacle. — INTERPRETATION OF HEBREWS 9
Hebreus 9:19-20
Since the divine nature is immortal, through the blood of the victims he realized the type of death and confirmed the covenant. Since God the Word became man and took a mortal body, there was no longer need of brute beasts as offerings; instead, he confirmed the new covenant with his own blood, the type corresponding to the shadow and the reality to the body. The water was a type of baptism, the blood of brute beasts the saving blood, the heat of the hyssop the grace of the divine Spirit, the scarlet wool the new garment, the piece of cedar (being a wood that does not rot) the impassible divinity, the ashes of a heifer the suffering of humanity. — INTERPRETATION OF HEBREWS 9
Hebreus 9:25-26
He completely destroyed the force of sin, promising us immortality; sin is incapable of proving a problem to immortal bodies. — INTERPRETATION OF HEBREWS 9
Hebreus 9:27-28
It should be noted, of course, that he bore the sins of many, not of all: not all came to faith, so he removed the sins of the believers only. — INTERPRETATION OF HEBREWS 9