Hebrews 9:11

Assurance of Conscience, the condition of access to God, was secured through Christ alone

11. being come "Being come among us."

a high priest of good things to come Another and perhaps better reading is "of the good things that have come" (γενομένων B, D, not μελλόντων). The writer here transfers himself from the Jewish to the Christian standpoint. The "good things" of which the Law was only "the shadow" (Hebrews 10:1) were still future to the Jew, but to the Christian they had already come.

by a greater and more perfect tabernacle The preposition diarendered "by" may mean either "through" in which case "the greater and better tabernacle" means the outer heavens through which Christ (anthropomorphically speaking) passed (see Hebrews 9:24 and Hebrews 4:14); or "by means of" in which case "the better tabernacle" is left undefined, and may heremean either the human nature in which for the time "He tabernacled" (Hebrews 10:20; John 1:14; John 2:19; Colossians 2:9; 2 Corinthians 5:1), or as in Hebrews 8:2, the Ideal Church of the firstborn in heaven (comp. Ephesians 1:3).

not made with hands Because whatever tabernacle is specifically meant it is one which "the Lord pitched, not man."

not of this building The word ktisismay mean either" building "or "creation." If the latter, then the meaning is that the better tabernacle, through which Christ entered, does not belong to the material world. But since ktizomeans "to build," ktisismay mean "building," and then the word "this" by a rare idiom means "vulgar," "ordinary" (Field, Otium Norvicense, iii. 142); otherwise the clause would be a mere tautology.