Hebrews 8:2

τῶν ἁγίων λειτουργὸς … “a minister of the [true] holy place and of the true abernacle which the Lord pitched, not man”. τῶν ἁγίων not = τῶν ἡγιασμένων as Œcumenius translates, but as in Hebrews 9:8; Hebrews 9:12; Hebrews 9:25; Hebrews 10:19; Hebrews 13:11 = ἅγια ἁγίων of Hebrews 9:3. In Hebrews 9:2-3, the outer part of the tabernacle is called ἅγια, the inner ἅγια ἁγίων, but Hebrews 8:8 is conclusive proof that ἅγια without addition was used for the holiest place. λειτουργὸς cf. note on Hebrews 1:14. καὶ τῆς σκηνῆς τῆς ἀληθινῆς, the ideal, antitypal tabernacle; ἀληθ. used as in the fourth gospel in contrast not to what is false, but to what is symbolical. It is to be taken with ἁγίων as well as with σκηνῆς. Cf. Bleek; and see Hebrews 9:11, τῆς μείζονος καὶ τελειοτέρας σκηνῆς οὐ χειροποιήτου, which is the equivalent of the clause added here, ἣν ἔπηξεν ὁ Κύριος, οὐκ ἄνθρωπος. See also Mark 14:58 and the striking words of Wis 9:8. In a different sense in Numbers 24:6, ὡσεὶ σκηναὶ ἃς ἔπηξε Κύριος. According to the fifth verse, man pitched a tabernacle which was a shadow of the true, and the very words in which was uttered the command so to do, might have reminded the people that there was a symbolic and a true tabernacle.