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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
John Chrysostom
"Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle accomplishing the service of God." That is, these things indeed were there, but the Jews did not enjoy them: they saw them not. So that they were no more theirs than ours for whom they prophesied.
Theophylact of Ohrid
Though this was so, he says, the Jews did not participate in it, since the veil held them back. This was preserved for us, for whom it was a foreshadowing.
Oecumenius
How then does the divine Paul say in this place, "once a year, the high priest alone?" And we say that he indeed entered with blood once a year: as is also said in the aforementioned place of Exodus; but to offer, on these days every day. Indeed, he also adds here: "not without blood," that is, with blood; so that this is the sense: Once a year the high priest with blood, not with incense. "without blood." After sacrifices, he says. So also the blood was a type of Christ. …
Western Saints
Bede
Figuratively, the curtain in the temple represents the same curtain that the apostle declares openly to the Hebrews, in the place where he also explains properly, according to the allegorical sense, the reason that "the priests go continually into the outer tent, performing their ritual duties, but into the second only the high priest goes, and he but once a year, and not without taking blood which he offers for himself and for the errors of the people." This curtain is interpreted as heaven. …
Thomas Aquinas
424. – Having described the things which pertain to the Old Testament so far as the disposition of the tabernacle was concerned, the Apostle now continues with the office of the ministers: first, with those who look to the holies; secondly, with those who look to the holy of holies (v. 7). 425. …
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