希伯来书 9
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
旧约的事奉
9 这样，第一个约[a]也包括了事奉礼的规定和地上的圣所， 2 因为有预备好的会幕：第一间里有灯台、桌子和陈设饼，这叫做圣所； 3 会幕第二层幔子后面，叫做至圣所， 4 里面有金香坛和四周包金的约柜；柜里有盛着吗哪的金罐、亚伦那根发过芽的杖和两块约版； 5 约柜上方有荣耀的基路伯，遮蔽着施恩座[b]。关于这些，现在就不一一细说了。
6 既然这些东西都这样预备好了，祭司们就常常进入第一间会幕行事奉礼。 7 至于第二间会幕，只有大祭司一年进去一次，没有不带着血的；这血是为自己和子民无意中犯的罪所献上的。 8 圣灵指明这一点：只要第一间会幕还存在，进入至圣所的道路就还没有显明出来。 9 这会幕是现今时代的一个象征，在这里所献上的礼物和祭物，并不能使事奉者的良心得以完全， 10 因为这些只是关于饮食和各种洗净礼，是属肉体的规定，一直实施到更新的时候为止。
新约的事奉
11 不过基督已经来到，做了那些已经发生的[c]美善之事的大祭司，经过了那更大、更完美的会幕。那会幕不是人手所造的；就是说，不属于这被造的世界。 12 他也没有藉着山羊和牛犊的血，而是藉着他自己的血，一次性地进入圣所，成就了永恒的救赎。 13 实际上，如果山羊和公牛的血，以及母牛犊的灰，洒在那些污秽的人身上，能使他们分别为圣、肉身洁净， 14 更何况基督的血呢！基督藉着永恒的圣灵[d]，将自己毫无瑕疵地献给神，他的血难道不能洁净我们[e]的良心脱离致死的行为，使我们事奉永生的神吗？
15 为此，基督做了新约的中保，藉着死赎清了人在第一个约之下的过犯，好使那些蒙召的人可以得到所应许的永恒继业。 16 要知道，遗嘱[f]在哪里生效[g]，立遗嘱之人的死亡就必须得到证实。 17 事实上，人死了，遗嘱[h]才能确立，因为立遗嘱之人活着的时候，遗嘱绝对不能生效。 18 原来不用血，第一个约也不能成立， 19 就是说，摩西按照律法向全体民众宣讲了所有的诫命之后，拿了牛犊和山羊[i]的血，掺上水，用深红色的羊毛和牛膝草，洒在那书卷上和全体民众身上， 20 说：“这是立约的血，是神吩咐给你们的。”[j] 21 然后，他又同样地把血洒在会幕和服事用的所有器皿上。 22 按照律法，几乎一切都是用血洁净的；没有流血，就没有赦免。
23 既然那些诸天之上事物的模型，必须用这些祭物[k]来洁净，那天上事物的本体就必须用比这些更好的祭物来洁净， 24 因为基督不是进入了人手所造的圣所——那不过是真圣所的象征——而是进入了上天本身，如今替我们显现在神的面前。 25 他也不用再三地将自己献上，像大祭司年年带着牛羊的[l]血进入圣所那样， 26 否则，从创世以来，他就必须再三地受难了。但如今，他在万世的末期显现了一次，好藉着献上自己为祭，把罪除掉。 27 就如人人注定都有一死，而且死后有审判， 28 照样，基督为了担当众人的罪孽，也被献上一次；将来还要再一次显现，不是为了罪，而是为了使那些热切等待他的人得到救恩。
Ebrei 9
La Nuova Diodati
9 Certamente anche il primo patto ebbe degli ordinamenti per il servizio divino e per il santuario terreno.
2 Infatti fu costruito un primo tabernacolo in cui vi erano il candelabro la tavola e i pani della presentazione; esso è chiamato: "Il luogo santo".
3 Dietro il secondo velo c'era il tabernacolo, detto: "Il luogo santissimo",
4 che conteneva un turibolo d'oro e l'arca del patto tutta ricoperta d'oro, nella quale si trovava un vaso d'oro contenente la manna, la verga di Aaronne che era germogliata e le tavole del patto.
5 E sopra l'arca vi erano i cherubini della gloria che adombravano il propiziatorio; di queste cose non possiamo parlarne ora dettagliatamente.
6 Or essendo queste cose disposte cosí, i sacerdoti entravano continuamente nel primo tabernacolo, per compiere il servizio divino;
7 ma nel secondo entrava soltanto il sommo sacerdote una volta all'anno, non senza sangue, che egli offriva per se stesso, e per i peccati d'ignoranza del popolo.
8 Lo Spirito Santo voleva cosí dimostrare che la via del santuario non era ancora resa manifesta, mentre sussisteva ancora il primo tabernacolo,
9 il quale è una figura per il tempo presente, e voleva indicare che i doni e i sacrifici offerti non potevano rendere perfetto nella coscienza colui che faceva il servizio divino,
10 trattandosi solo di cibi, di bevande, di varie abluzioni e di ordinamenti carnali, imposti fino al tempo del cambiamento.
11 Ma Cristo, essendo venuto come sommo sacerdote dei beni futuri, attraverso un tabernacolo piú grande e piú perfetto non fatto da mano d'uomo, cioè non di questa creazione,
12 entrò una volta per sempre nel santuario, non con sangue di capri e di vitelli, ma col proprio sangue, avendo acquistato una redenzione eterna.
13 Infatti, se il sangue dei tori e dei capri e la cenere di una giovenca aspersi sopra i contaminati li santifica, purificandoli nella carne,
14 quanto piú il sangue di Cristo, che mediante lo Spirito eterno offerse se stesso puro di ogni colpa a Dio, purificherà la vostra coscienza dalle opere morte per servire il Dio vivente!
15 E perciò egli è il mediatore del nuovo patto affinché, essendo intervenuta la morte per il riscatto dalle trasgressioni commesse sotto il primo patto, i chiamati ricevano la promessa dell'eterna eredità.
16 Poiché dove c'è un testamento, ci deve essere necessariamente anche la morte del testatore.
17 Il testamento infatti è valido solo dopo la morte di qualcuno, perché non ha alcuna forza mentre vive ancora il testatore.
18 Per questo neppure il primo fu inaugurato senza sangue.
19 Infatti, quando tutti i comandamenti secondo la legge furono proclamati da Mosè a tutto il popolo, egli, preso il sangue dei vitelli e dei capri, con acqua, lana scarlatta e issopo, asperse il libro stesso e tutto il popolo,
20 dicendo «Questo è il sangue del patto che Dio ha ordinato per voi».
21 Parimenti con quel sangue egli asperse pure il tabernacolo e tutti gli arredi del servizio divino.
22 E, secondo la legge, quasi tutte le cose sono purificate col sangue; e senza spargimento di sangue non c'è perdono dei peccati.
23 Era dunque necessario che i modelli delle cose celesti fossero purificati con queste cose; ma le cose celesti stesse lo dovevano essere con sacrifici piú eccellenti di questi.
24 Cristo infatti non è entrato in un santuario fatto da mani d'uomo, figura delle cose vere, ma nel cielo stesso per comparire ora davanti alla presenza di Dio per noi,
25 e non per offrire se stesso piú volte, come il sommo sacerdote che entra ogni anno nel santuario con sangue, non suo.
26 altrimenti egli avrebbe dovuto soffrire piú volte dalla fondazione del mondo; ma ora, una sola volta, alla fine delle età, Cristo è stato manifestato per annullare il peccato mediante il sacrificio di se stesso.
27 E come è stabilito che gli uomini muoiano una sola volta, e dopo ciò viene il giudizio,
28 cosí anche Cristo, dopo essere stato offerto una sola volta per prendere su di sé i peccati di molti, apparirà una seconda volta senza peccato a coloro che lo aspettano per la salvezza.
Hebrews 9
Easy-to-Read Version
Worship Under the Old Agreement
9 The first agreement had rules for worship and a place for worship here on earth. 2 This place was inside a tent. The first area in the tent was called the Holy Place. In the Holy Place were the lamp and the table with the special bread offered to God. 3 Behind the second curtain was a room called the Most Holy Place. 4 In the Most Holy Place was a golden altar for burning incense. And also there was the Box of the Agreement. The Box was covered with gold. Inside this Box was a golden jar of manna and Aaron’s rod—the rod that once grew leaves. Also in the Box were the flat stones with the Ten Commandments of the old agreement on them. 5 Above the Box were the Cherub angels that showed God’s glory. These Cherub angels were over the place of mercy.[a] But we cannot say everything about this now.
6 Everything in the tent was made ready in the way I have explained. Then the priests went into the first room every day to do their worship duties. 7 But only the high priest could go into the second room, and he went in only once a year. Also, he could never enter that room without taking blood with him. He offered that blood to God for himself and for the sins the people committed without knowing they were sinning.
8 The Holy Spirit uses those two separate rooms to teach us that the way into the Most Holy Place[b] was not open while the first room was still there. 9 This is an example for us today. It shows that the gifts and sacrifices the priests offer to God are not able to make the consciences of the worshipers completely clear. 10 These gifts and sacrifices are only about food and drink and special washings. They are only rules about the body. God gave them for his people to follow until the time of his new way.
Worship Under the New Agreement
11 But Christ has already come to be the high priest. He is the high priest of the good things we now have. But Christ does not serve in a place like the tent that those other priests served in. He serves in a better place. Unlike that tent, this one is perfect. It was not made by anyone here on earth. It does not belong to this world. 12 Christ entered the Most Holy Place only one time—enough for all time. He entered the Most Holy Place by using his own blood, not the blood of goats or young bulls. He entered there and made us free from sin forever.
13 The blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a cow were sprinkled on those who were no longer pure enough to enter the place of worship. The blood and ashes made them pure again—but only their bodies. 14 So surely the blood sacrifice of Christ can do much more. Christ offered himself through the eternal Spirit[c] as a perfect sacrifice to God. His blood will make us completely clean from the evil we have done. It will give us clear consciences so that we can worship the living God.
15 So Christ brings a new agreement from God to his people. He brings this agreement so that those who are chosen by God can have the blessings God promised, blessings that last forever. This can happen only because Christ died to free people from sins committed against the commands of the first agreement.
16 When someone dies and leaves a will, there must be proof that the one who wrote the will is dead. 17 A will means nothing while the one who wrote it is still living. It can be used only after that person’s death. 18 That is why blood was needed to begin the first agreement between God and his people. 19 First, Moses told the people every command in the law. Then he took the blood of young bulls and mixed it with water. He used red wool and a branch of hyssop to sprinkle the blood and water on the book of the law and on all the people. 20 Then he said, “This is the blood that makes the agreement good—the agreement that God commanded you to follow.”[d] 21 In the same way, Moses sprinkled the blood on the Holy Tent. He sprinkled the blood over everything used in worship. 22 The law says that almost everything must be made clean by blood. Sins cannot be forgiven without a blood sacrifice.
Jesus Christ Is Our Sacrifice for Sin
23 These things are copies of the real things that are in heaven. These copies had to be made clean by animal sacrifices. But the real things in heaven must have much better sacrifices. 24 Christ went into the Most Holy Place. But it was not the man-made one, which is only a copy of the real one. He went into heaven, and he is there now before God to help us.
25 The high priest enters the Most Holy Place once every year. He takes with him blood to offer. But he does not offer his own blood like Christ did. Christ went into heaven, but not to offer himself many times like the high priest offers blood again and again. 26 If Christ had offered himself many times, he would have needed to suffer many times since the time the world was made. But he came to offer himself only once. And that once is enough for all time. He came at a time when the world is nearing an end. He came to take away all sin by offering himself as a sacrifice.
27 Everyone must die once. Then they are judged. 28 So Christ was offered as a sacrifice one time to take away the sins of many people. And he will come a second time, but not to offer himself for sin. He will come the second time to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Footnotes
- Hebrews 9:5 place of mercy Or “mercy seat,” a place on top of the “Box of the Agreement,” where the high priest put the blood of an animal once a year to pay for the sins of the people.
- Hebrews 9:8 Most Holy Place Literally, “holies” for “holy of holies,” the spiritual place where God lives and is worshiped. Also in verses 12, 24.
- Hebrews 9:14 Spirit Probably the Holy Spirit. See “Holy Spirit” in the Word List.
- Hebrews 9:20
Quote from Ex. 24:8.
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