Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hebrews 9:23

"It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these." — Hebrews 9:23 (ASV)

It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; (Hebrews 9:23).

These things down below are only the patterns, the models, the symbols of the heavenly things; they could therefore be ceremonially purified with the blood which is the symbol of the atoning sacrifice of Christ.