Hebrews 9:23

ὑποδείγματα. “Copies,” or outlines—Abbilden (not Urbilden) Hebrews 4:11; Hebrews 8:5.

αὐτὰ δὲ τὰ ἐπουράνια. Not “the New Covenant,” or “the Church,” or “ourselves as heirs of heaven,” but apparently the Ideal Tabernacle in the Heavens, which was itself impure before Him to whom “the very heavens are not clean.” If this conception seem remote we must suppose that by the figure called Zeugma the verb “purified” passes into the sense of “handselled,” “dedicated.”

κρείττοσιν θυσίαις. The plural is here only used generically to express a class. He is alluding to the one transcendent sacrifice.