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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Hebrews 10 In this chapter the apostle pursues his argument, showing the weakness and imperfection of the Levitical priesthood, and the superior excellency of Christ's, which he closes with suitable exhortations to faith on Christ, as the alone high priest, and to a constant profession of him. The imperfection of the Levitical...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the law having a shadow of good things to come,.... By which is meant not the moral law, for that is not a shadow of future blessings, but a system of precepts; the things it commands are not figuratively, but really good and honest; and are not obscure, but plain and easy to be understood; nor are they fleeting and passing away, as a shadow,...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
The apostle knew very well that the Hebrews, to whom he wrote, were strangely fond of the Levitical dispensation, and therefore he fills his mouth with arguments to wean them from it; and in order thereto proceeds in this chapter, I. To lay low the whole of that priesthood and sacrifice, ver. 1-6. II. He raises and exalts the priesthood of Christ...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. A man could go to the Levitical sacrifices twenty years running, and yet be no forwarder. He must go again and again as long as he lived. They were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the law — The old ceremonial law of Moses, — Heb_10:1. Having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. Those that were sprinkled with the blood of the Old Testament sacrifices did not feel that their sin...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. This refers to the old ceremonial law, under which the Jews lived so long. They always had to go on, year after year, offering the same kind of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. For then would they not have ceased to be offered” If the sacrifice had really put away sin, surely it would never have needed to be offered again....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For then would they not have ceased to be offered,.... The Complutensian edition, and the Syriac and Vulgate Latin versions, leave out the word "not"; and the sense requires it should be omitted, for the meaning is, that if perfection had been by the legal sacrifices, they would have ceased to have been offered; for if the former ones had made...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For then- If they had been effectual, Heb_10:2. Would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. Once forgiven, the sin would not have come back again. If the sacrifice had really cleansed the conscience of the offerer, he would not have had cause to present it again.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For — If the worshippers had thus been made perfect; if they had been completely cleansed and accepted through these sacrifices, — Heb_10:2. Then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. The fact that there was a lamb to be offered every morning and every...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. There would have been no need to bring another lamb to be offered if the one which was presented had put away sin; there would have been no need of another day of atonement if the sacrifice on the one day had...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins. Once cleansed from sin, we are cleansed from sin; the great deed is done once for all,
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But in those sacrifices,.... The Arabic version reads, "but in it"; that is, in the law; but the Syriac version reads, and supplies, as we do, בדבחא בהון, "in those sacrifices", which were offered every year on the day of atonement: there is a remembrance of sins made again every year; of all the sins that were committed the year past, and even of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh- he who is the essence of it all, “When he cometh,”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Your common sense tells you “it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.” Although rivers of such blood should continually be flowing, what efficacy...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Their blood was only a picture, an emblem, a type of far more precious blood, — the shadow of the real atonement which was afterwards to be offered.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again made of sins every year. For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when he cometh into the world, You know who that is, there is but one great “HE” to us,-our blessed Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, the true High Priest.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For it is not possible,.... There is a necessity of sin being taken away, otherwise it will be remembered; and there will be a conscience of it, and it must be answered for, or it will remain marked, and the curse and penalty of the law must take place: but it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins; which was shed on...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore, when he cometh into the world, he saith,.... In Psalms 40:7. This was said by David, not of himself, and his own times, for sacrifice and offering were desired and required in his times; nor was he able to do the will of God; so as to fulfil the law, and make void legal sacrifices; nor did he engage as a surety to do this; nor was it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me: in burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God. Types were no longer needed when the great Antitype had come. Christ was no longer...