8:1 - Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
Tertullian On Modesty
and in all respects holy,[292]
8:2 - A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.
Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV
For since there was no righteousness on earth, He sent a teacher, as it were a living law, to found a new name and temple,[334]
8:5 - Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.
Origen de Principiis Book II
And the apostle says with reference to the law, that they who have circumcision in the flesh, "serve for the similitude and shadow of heavenly things."[102]Origen de Principiis Book III
In which land I believe there exist the true and living forms of that worship which Moses handed down under the shadow of the law; of which it is said, that "they serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things"[424]Origen de Principiis Book IV
rged with ten plagues, to allow the people of God to depart, or the account of what was done with the people in the wilderness, or of the building of the tabernacle by means of contributions from all the people, or of the wearing of the priestly robes, or of the vessels of the public service, because, as it is written, they truly contain within them the "shadow and form of heavenly things." For Paul openly says of them, that "they serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things."[2]Origen Commentary on John Book VI
Now that the principle of the sacrifice must be apprehended with reference to certain heavenly mysteries, appears from the words of the Apostle, who somewhere[149]
8:8 - For finding fault with them, he says, Behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI
" For we find in the Scriptures, as the Lord says: "Behold, I make with you a new covenant, not as I made with your fathers in Mount Horeb."[67]Tertullian An Answer to the Jews
a new testament; not such as I once gave their fathers in the day wherein I led them out from the land of Egypt."[47]
8:10 - For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:
Clement of Alexandria Exhortation to the Heathen
What laws does He inscribe? "That all shall know God, from small to great; "and, "I will be merciful to them," says God, "and will not remember their sins."[164]
8:11 - And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.
Tertullian On Repentance
Let no one, then, flatter himself on the ground of being assigned to the "recruit-classes" of learners, as if on that account he have a licence even now to sin. As soon as you "know the Lord,[55]Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book I
If there dwelt upon earth a faith as great as is the reward of faith which is expected in the heavens, no one of you at all, best beloved sisters, from the time that she had first "known the Lord,"[1]
8:12 - For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Ninth
And when the Lord saw that their repentance was good and pure, and that they were able to remain in it, He ordered their former sins to be blotted out.[56]
8:13 - In that he says, A new covenant, he has made the first old. Now that which decays and waxs old is ready to vanish away.
Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes
from day to day, while the other grows old and infirm, and passes almost into utter destruction.[112]Lactantius Divine Institutes Book IV
a new testament to the house of Judah, shows that the old testament which was given by Moses was not perfect;[300]