Hebrews 9:1
The former indeed had also justifications of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Habuit quidem et prius justificationes culturæ, et Sanctum sæculare.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- Εἶχε μὲν οὖν ἡ πρώτη δικαιώματα λατρείας τό τε ἅγιον κοσμικόν.
Haydock's commentary
The former.1 In the ordinary Greek copies is expressed the former tabernacle; but even the Protestant translators have abandoned that reading, and understand the former testament or covenant, which they have put in a different character.
Worldly sanctuary, or a temporal sanctuary, to last only for a time, like the things of this world. (Witham), The word ordinances (dikaiomata) is frequently used for the laws and ordinances of God, because the observance of the laws is the justification of man; see particularly in the 118th Psalm, the legal rites justified in regard to the outward policy of the Jews.
1 Habuit & prius, eiche e prote. Though almost all Greek copies have skene, tabernacle: yet even the Protestant translators add in a different print, covenant, as if diatheke was understood. Ibid.[Ver. 1.] Sanctum sæculare, kosmikon. This Greek word is only found in one other place in the New Testament, Titus ii. 12., sæcularia desideria.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.