This hope [this confident assurance] we have as an anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whatever pressure bears upon it]—a safe and steadfast hope that enters within the veil [of the heavenly temple, that most Holy Place in which the very presence of God dwells],

Behind the second veil there was another tabernacle [the inner one or second section] known as the Holy of Holies,

by this new and living way which He initiated and opened for us through the veil [as in the Holy of Holies], that is, through His flesh,