Hebrews 9:23

KJV

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

— Hebrews 9:23, King James Version
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The argument that 'the patterns of things in the heavens' (the Levitical sanctuary) must be purified with animal blood, while 'the heavenly things themselves' require 'better sacrifices than these,' follows the Platonic-Philonic schema of earthly copies and heavenly archetypes, which Hebrews appropriates and transforms. The verse is among the most philosophically sophisticated in Hebrews, suggesting that the celestial sanctuary itself required a purification — presumably from the defilement introduced by human sin reaching into God's presence. Christ's own blood, carried as high priest into the 'greater and more perfect tabernacle' (9:11), accomplishes what Levitical ritual could only typologically anticipate. The passage has shaped Christian atonement theology by insisting that Christ's sacrifice accomplished a cosmic, not merely earthly, purification.

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ASV

It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these.

YLT

<FI> It is<Fi> necessary, therefore, the pattern indeed of the things in the heavens to be purified with these, and the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these;

BBE

For this cause it was necessary to make the copies of the things in heaven clean with these offerings; but the things themselves are made clean with better offerings than these.

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