Hebrews9:11

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Translation

When, by means of the greater and more perfect Tabernacle which is

not made by hand, that is, not part of this creation, and having appeared publicly as High Priest of the good things that have been brought into existence,

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Paraphrase

Because He offers a new system which promises greater intimacy with God than the last one because the former system was part of the physical world not the spiritual world, and it was made by human hands rather than by God’s direct intervention, and because He is the chief administrator over all the wholesome and beneficial realities that [God] has brought into existence,

Footnotes

1: “having been brought into existence”

The participle used here has many uses, but it basically means “having become.” The form used points to the past, but it implies all that God has done and will do in the future.