Notes on The Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
8:5 Who serve unto, etc: The priesthood of the law and its functions were a kind of an example and shadow of what is done by Christ in his church militant and triumphant, of which the tabernacle was a pattern.
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