Hebrews 9:6 - Exposition

Now these things being thus ordained (A.V rather, arranged or constituted ; it is the same word ( κατασκευάζω ) as was used in Hebrews 9:2 , "there was a tabernacle made ;" also in Hebrews 3:3 , Hebrews 3:4 , of God's "house;" on which see supra ), the priests go in continually into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the services. (Observe that here, where the ministrations are described, present tenses are used; perhaps because these ministrations were still going on when the Epistle was written) The continual services in the "first tabernacle" were