“Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.”
They serve a copy and shadow (hypodeigma kai skia) of the heavenly things, as Moses was warned when he was about to erect the tabernacle; for he says, 'See that you make everything according to the pattern (typos) shown you on the mountain' — the earthly sanctuary is ontologically and epistemologically inferior, a mere sketch of heavenly realities. The appeal to Moses and the divine pattern (from Exodus 25:40) grounds this in Torah itself; God ordained that the earthly should reflect the heavenly, not replace it. The earthly priests thus serve perpetually in a realm of copies, never accessing the reality they represent.
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