Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 9:9
Which - Tabernacle and its services, was a figure, παραβολη , a dark enigmatical representation, for the time then present - for that age and dispensation, and for all those who lived under it. In which, καθ ' ὁν , during which, time or dispensation were offered both gifts and sacrifices - eucharistic offerings and victims for sin, that could not make him that did the service, whether the priest who made the offering, or the person who brought it in the behalf of his soul, perfect... read more
Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 9:8
The Holy Ghost this signifying - These services were divinely appointed, and by each of them the Holy Spirit of God is supposed to speak. The way into the holiest - That full access to God was not the common privilege of the people, while the Mosaic economy subsisted. That the apostle means that it is only by Christ that any man and every man can approach God, is evident from Hebrews 10:19-22 , and it is about this, and not about the tabernacle of this world, that he is here... read more