Church Fathers Scholars, help!

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I am wondering how the Church Fathers understood Exodus 25: 40. The concept that interest me most is pattern.

How did the Church Fathers understand what is meant by “pattern.”

This concept shows up in Hebrews 8: 5.

It seems really important to me.

However, I need to know what tradition has said on those two passages and other related passages.

Well, I could use any help and all help.

THANKS!!!
 
Saint John Chrysostom writes concerning Hebrews 8:5

“Who” (he says) “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.” Inasmuch as our hearing is less ready of apprehension than our sight (for the things which we hear we do not in such wise lay up in our soul, as those which we see with our very eyes), He showed him all. Either then he means this by “the example and shadow,” or else he [speaks] of the Temple. For, he went on to say, “See” (His words are), that “thou make all things according to the pattern showed to you in the mount.” Was it then only what concerned the furniture of the temple that he saw, or was it also what related to the sacrifices, and all the rest? Nay, one would not be wrong in saying even this; for The Church is heavenly, and is nothing else than Heaven.
 
Haydock Commentary on Heb 8:5

Ver. 5. Who serve unto, &c. 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 [on earth] and triumphant [in heaven], of which the tabernacle was a pattern. (Challoner).
 
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