1Now in the things which we are saying, the main point is this: we have such a high priest, who sat down on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens, 2a servant of the sanctuary and of the true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, not man. 3For every high priest is appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices. Therefore it is necessary that this high priest also have something to offer. 4For if he were on earth, he would not be a priest at all, seeing there are priests who offer the gifts according to the law, 5who serve a copy and shadow of the heavenly things, even as Moses was warned by God when he was about to make the tabernacle, for he said, “See, you shall make everything according to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain.” 6But now he has obtained a more excellent ministry, by as much as he is also the mediator of a better covenant, which on better promises has been given as law.
7For if that first covenant had been faultless, then no place would have been sought for a second. 8For finding fault with them, he said,
“Behold, the days are coming”, says the Lord,
“that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;
9not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers
in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt;
for they didn’t continue in my covenant,
and I disregarded them,” says the Lord.
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;
I will also write them on their heart.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
11They will not teach every man his fellow citizen
and every man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
for all will know me,
from their least to their greatest.
12For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness.
I will remember their sins and lawless deeds no more.”
13In that he says, “A new covenant”, he has made the first obsolete. But that which is becoming obsolete and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
Type (Gk. τύπος, typos). (5:14; John 20:25; Acts 7:43, 44; 23:25; Rom 6:17; Heb 8:5) Strong’s 5179
This word refers to an “image, pattern, model,” and can also be used to describe the “content” of a document. It has an important theological usage, as in this verse, referring to a person, thing or event that foreshadows a later and greater fulfillment in redemptive history. With this meaning, the word is simply transliterated as “type.” In Rom 5:14, Adam is a type or foreshadowing of Jesus: as Adam’s choice affects the many, so does Jesus’ work. Another example of a type is the sacrificial system of the Mosaic Covenant, which looks forward to, even predicts the greater sacrifice of Christ on the cross. Typology assumes the doctrine of the progress of revelation (Heb 1:1-4): God reveals Himself and His plan with more and more detail and clarity throughout redemptive history (Scripture), with the incarnation of Jesus being God’s best revelation to date. Types show that God deliberately anticipates and paints pictures in earlier revelation of realities that would only be revealed and experienced later, for example, the picture of the OT priest that would later find its ultimate expression and fulfillment in Jesus as priest.