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耶稣在真帐幕里做执事

我们所讲的事,其中第一要紧的,就是我们有这样的大祭司,已经坐在天上至大者的宝座右边, 在圣所,就是真帐幕里做执事。这帐幕是主所支的,不是人所支的。 凡大祭司都是为献礼物和祭物设立的,所以这位大祭司也必须有所献的。 他若在地上,必不得为祭司,因为已经有照律法献礼物的祭司。 他们供奉的事本是天上事的形状和影像,正如摩西将要造帐幕的时候,蒙神警戒他,说:“你要谨慎,做各样的物件都要照着在山上指示你的样式。”

做更美之约的中保

如今耶稣所得的职任是更美的,正如他做更美之约的中保。这约原是凭更美之应许立的。 那前约若没有瑕疵,就无处寻求后约了。 所以主指责他的百姓说[a]:“日子将到,我要与以色列家和犹大家另立新约, 不像我拉着他们祖宗的手,领他们出埃及的时候,与他们所立的约。因为他们不恒心守我的约,我也不理他们。这是主说的。”

神不再记念以色列家的罪愆

10 主又说:“那些日子以后,我与以色列家所立的约乃是这样:我要将我的律法放在他们里面,写在他们心上;我要做他们的神,他们要做我的子民。 11 他们不用各人教导自己的乡邻和自己的弟兄说:‘你该认识主’,因为他们从最小的到至大的,都必认识我。 12 我要宽恕他们的不义,不再记念他们的罪愆。” 13 既说新约,就以前约为旧了;但那渐旧渐衰的,就必快归无有了。

Footnotes

  1. 希伯来书 8:8 或作:所以主指前约的缺欠说。

耶稣—我们的大祭司

我们现在谈到的重点是:我们有这样一位大祭司,他坐在天堂里伟大的上帝的宝座的右边。 他在至圣处 [a],即真正的圣幕中担任祭司,这个圣幕是上帝建造的,而不是人建造的。

所有的大祭司都被指命去奉献礼品和祭物,所以,我们的大祭司也该有所奉献。 如果他在地上,他是当不上祭司的,因为已经有按照律法的规定祭献贡品的人了,那么他在地上甚至连个祭司都当不上, 但是,那些人所做的工作只是天堂事物的副本就像当时摩西要去建圣幕时受到了上帝警告的那样,他(上帝)说∶“你必须按照我在山上给你看的样式来建造一切。” [b] 然而,耶稣得到的祭司职位远超过他们所得到的,就像由他做中间人的契约比旧契约更加优越一样。

假如第一个契约无懈可击,那就不需要再有第二个契约取代它了。 不过,上帝发现了人们的错误,他说:

“主说,‘我与以色列人和犹大
人定立新誓约的日子就要到了。
这个誓约不同于我与他们的祖先们定立的誓约。
那时,我牵着他们的手带领他们离开了埃及的国土,
因为他们没有信守我的誓约,所以我离弃了他们。’
10 ‘这个誓约是在那之后,我将与以色列人订立的。
我要把我的律法装进他们的大脑,
写在他们的心上。
我将是他们的上帝;
他们将是我的子民。
11 一个人没有必要去教导他的同胞与兄弟说:
“去认识主”,
因为他们从最微不足道到最伟大的人都将知道我。
12 因为我将宽恕他们的过错,
也不再记他们的罪过。”

13 他称这个契约为“新约”,使第一个契约过时作废。任何逐渐衰老与过时的事物都即将消亡。

Footnotes

  1. 希 伯 來 書 8:2 至圣处: 上帝所居住的属灵的地方。也是受崇拜的地方。
  2. 希 伯 來 書 8:5 “你必须按照我在山上给你看的样式来建造一切。”《出埃及记》25:40。

A Heavenly Priesthood

Now the main point of what is being said is this: We have this kind of high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,(A) a minister of the sanctuary and the true tabernacle that was set up by the Lord and not man.(B) For every high priest is appointed to offer gifts(C) and sacrifices; therefore, it was necessary for this priest also to have something to offer. Now if he were on earth, he wouldn’t be a priest, since there are those[a] offering the gifts prescribed by the law. These serve as a copy and shadow(D) of the heavenly things, as Moses was warned when he was about to complete the tabernacle. For God said, Be careful that you make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.[b](E) But Jesus has now obtained a superior ministry, and to that degree he is the mediator(F) of a better covenant,(G) which has been established on better promises.(H)

A Superior Covenant

For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion for a second one. But finding fault with his people,[c] he says:[d]

See, the days are coming, says the Lord,
when I will make a new covenant
with the house of Israel
and with the house of Judah—
not like the covenant
that I made with their ancestors
on the day I took them by the hand
to lead them out of the land of Egypt.
I showed no concern for them, says the Lord,
because they did not continue in my covenant.
10 For this is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.(I)
11 And each person will not teach his fellow citizen,[e]
and each his brother or sister, saying, “Know the Lord,”
because they will all know me,
from the least to the greatest of them.(J)
12 For I will forgive their wrongdoing,
and I will never again remember their sins.[f][g] (K)

13 By saying a new covenant, he has declared that the first is obsolete. And what is obsolete and growing old is about to pass away.(L)

Footnotes

  1. 8:4 Other mss read priests
  2. 8:5 Ex 25:40
  3. 8:8 Lit with them
  4. 8:8 Other mss read finding fault, he says to them
  5. 8:11 Other mss read neighbor
  6. 8:12 Other mss add and their lawless deeds
  7. 8:8–12 Jr 31:31–34