Hebrews 9:1

Verse 1. The former. [1] In the ordinary Greek copies is expressed the former tabernacle; but even the Prot. translators have abandoned that reading, and understand the former testament or covenant, which they have put in a different character.—Worldly sanctuary, or a temporal sanctuary, to last only for a time, like the things of this world. Witham.—The word ordinances (δικαιωματα) is frequently used for the laws and ordinances of God, because the observance of the laws is the justification of man; see particularly in the 118th Ps. the legal rites justified in regard to the outward policy of the Jews.

TR adds “tabernacle”