Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, says he, that you make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Who serve unto The priesthood of the law and its functions were a kind of an example, and shadow of what is done by Christ in his Church militant , of which the tabernacle was a pattern. (Challoner)