This hope is a very anchor for our souls, secure and strong, and it 'reaches into the Sanctuary that lies behind the Curtain,'

where he ministers in the Sanctuary, in that true Tabernacle set up by the Lord and not by man.

It is true that even the first Covenant had its regulations for divine worship, and its Sanctuary--though only a material one.

For a Tabernacle was constructed, with an outer part which contained the stand for the lamps, and the table, and the consecrated bread. This is called the Sanctuary.

The part of the Tabernacle behind the second Curtain is called the Inner Sanctuary.

By this the Holy Spirit is teaching that the way into the Sanctuary was hidden, as long as the outer part of the Tabernacle still remained.

Nor was it with the blood of goats and calves, but with his own blood, that he entered, once and for all, into the Sanctuary, and obtained our eternal deliverance.

For it was not into a Sanctuary made by human hands, which merely foreshadowed the true one, that Christ entered, but into Heaven itself, that he might now appear in the presence of God on our behalf.

Nor yet was it to offer himself may times, as year after year the High Priest entered the Sanctuary with an offering of blood--but not his own blood;

Therefore, Brothers, since we may enter the Sanctuary with confidence, in virtue of the blood of Jesus,

by the way which he inaugurated for us--a new and living way, a way through the Sanctuary Curtain (that is, his human nature);

The bodies of those animals whose blood is brought by the High Priest into the Sanctuary, as an offering for sin, are burnt outside the camp.