For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; which is called the sanctuary.
2. For there was a tabernacle, etc. As the Apostle here touches but lightly on the structure of the tabernacle, that he might not be detained beyond what his subject required; so will I also designedly abstain from any refined explanation of it.
The tabernacle was a moving temple, shadowing forth the unsettled state of the church militant and the human nature of Christ Himself. Its two parts represent the two states of the church, militant and triumphant, and the two natures of Christ, human and divine. Every furnishing spoke a lesson: the candlestick burning where no windows admitted light showed their darkness before Christ the Sun of righteousness came.
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Commenting on Hebrews 9:1-7
For there was a tabernacle made,.... By the direction of Moses, according to the pattern showed him in the Mount: the first; that is, the first part of the tabernacle, called the holy place, in distinction from the holy of holies, which was the second part of the tabernacle; for otherwise there were not a first and a second tabernacle; there never was but one...