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Hebrews 10:1-4
The Insufficiency of the Old Testament Sacrifices Compared with the One Perfect Offering of Christ.
The insufficiency of the Old Testament offerings:
The Insufficiency of the Old Testament Sacrifices Compared with the One Perfect Offering of Christ.
The insufficiency of the Old Testament offerings:
HEBREWS 10:1 ouvk auvth,n {A} The substitution of kai, for ouvk auvth,n in the earliest known copy of the Epistle (î46) has produced an interesting reading, but one that certainly cannot be original,...
CHAPTER X. _The insufficiency of the legal sacrifices to take away sin_, 1-4. _The purpose and will of God, as declared by the Psalmist_, _relative to the salvation of the world by the incarnation...
FOR THE LAW HAVING A SHADOW - That is, the whole of the Mosaic economy was a shadow; for so the word “Law” is often used. The word “shadow” here refers to a rough outline of anything, a mere sketch, s...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The all-sufficiency of the one offering (Hebrews 10:1)_ 2. Exhortations (Hebrews 10:19) 3. Warning (Hebrews 10:26) 4. Encouragements ...
In this closing part of the theological discussion the writer dwells further on the finality of Christ's one sacrifice, and shows how it has brought to an end the annually repeated offerings under the...
Because the law is only a pale shadow of the blessings which are to come and not a real image of these things, it can never really fit for the fellowship of God those who seek to draw near to his pres...
THE ONLY TRUE SACRIFICE (Hebrews 10:1-10)...
NOT, &C. = not itself (emph.) IMAGE. Greek. _eikon._ See Romans 1:23. NEVER. Greek. _oudepote_. See Hebrews 10:11. YEAR, &C. Greek. _kat_. _eniauton_, as Hebrews 9:25.
The one Sacrifice and the many Sacrifices 1. _of good things to come_ Of _the_good things which Christ had now brought into the world (Hebrews 9:11). _not the very image of the things_ "The Law," say...
CH. 10. The first eighteen verses of this chapter are a summary, rich with fresh thoughts and illustrations, of the topics on which he has been dwelling; namely (1) The one sacrifice of Christ compare...
THE ONE SACRIFICE AND THE MANY SACRIFICES...
ΔΎΝΑΤΑΙ DEKL. δύνανται אAC. The plural is probably a mere oversight due to the previous προσφέρουσιν. 1. ΣΚΙΆΝ. The σκιά is the opposite to the εἰκών, and the two words sum up the whole of the preced...
_THE PURPOSE AND THE WILL OF GOD -- HEBREWS 10:1-10:_ The law, with all its ceremonies and sacrifices, was only a shadow or type of what was to come under the gospel dispensation. The legal sacrifices...
ΣΚΙΆ (G4639) тень. Это отпечаток или тень, отбрасываемая реальным предметом (Grasser; Riggenbach; Michel; ВВС), ΈΧΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь. Part. может быть причинным, ΜΕΛΛΌΝΤΩΝ _p...
FOR THE LAW, HAVING A SHADOW, &C.— The _for_ in this verse seems to connect the discourse here with the former part of the foregoing chapter; wherein the apostle speaks of the earthly or worldly sanct...
G. _He is a Priest of a better sacrifice. Hebrews 10:1-39_. 1. _The impossibility of the Mosaic sacrifice to take away sins. Hebrews 10:1-4_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 10:1-4...
THE TYPICAL SACRIFICE (Hebrews 10:1-4) The 10th chapter of our epistle has two main divisions: the first is occupied with a setting forth of the sufficiency of Christ’s sacrifice unto those who belie...
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...
13 This refers to the two great sin offerings of Lev.16 and Num.19. The victim was burned, the ashes preserved, and water that flowed over them availed to purify. This ordinance fills an important pla...
THE SHADOW is unsubstantial, lacking all the qualities of the original except perhaps outlined form; the VERY IMAGE is an exact reproduction of the original. CONTINUALLY] is perhaps best taken with th...
SACRIFICE COMPLETE IN THE FULFILMENT OF GOD'S WILL. THE OPEN WAY TO GOD Recapitulation and close of the argument. The sacrifices of the Law were ineffective to cleanse the conscience, as shown by thei...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 10 A NEW *SACRIFICE AND WAY TO LIFE 10:1-39 THE LAW WAS A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME 10:1-4 V1 The law of Moses provides only a poor copy...
A SHADOW OF GOOD THINGS TO COME. — These words have already come before us; the “shadow” in Hebrews 8:5, and “the good things to come” in the ordinary reading of Hebrews 9:11. NOT THE VERY IMAGE. — Th...
Σκιὰν γὰρ ἔχων … The γὰρ intimates that we have here a further explanation of the finality of Christ's one sacrifice (Hebrews 9:28) and therefore of its superiority to the sacrifices of the law. The e...
_Finality of Christ's one sacrifice_. The law merely presents a shadow of the essential spiritual blessings and does not perfect those who seek God through it. Its sacrifices therefore must be continu...
The sacrifices of the law inadequate....
“LO, I COME TO DO THY WILL” Hebrews 10:1 When a heavenly body is in eclipse it can be examined with even greater precision than when the astronomer's eye is directed toward its burning glory; so in L...
The writer now deals with the subject of the better worship. In this connection he again quotes from the prophecy of Jeremiah in order to emphasize the prediction of the new covenant concerning the fo...
SACRIFICES UNDER MOSES' LAW WERE INSUFFICIENT The blood of the law was not sufficient to cleanse men of sin. The law was just a shadow, or vague outline, of the good things that were to come under the...
For (1) the law having a shadow of good things to (a) come, [and] not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunt...
The law having a shadow [1] of the good things to come. The apostle continues till the 19th verse to shew the insufficiency of the former law, as to the redemption and salvation of mankind. By the goo...
(1) 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 perf...
CONTENTS In this Chapter the Inefficacy of the Law, and the Sufficiency of the Gospel are stated, The Lord Jesus, is most blessedly represented, under the Spirit of Prophecy, as coming for the Salvat...
The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. We must...
1._For the Law having a shadow, etc. _He has borrowed this similitude from the pictorial art; for a shadow here is in a sense different from what it has in Colossians 2:17; where he calls the ancient...
In Chapter 10 this principle is applied to the sacrifice. Its repetition proved that sin was there. That the sacrifice of Christ was only offered once, was the demonstration of its eternal efficacy. H...
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 figu...
Σκιὰν γὰρ ἔχων ὁ νόμος τῶν μελλόντων ἀγαθῶν, οὐκ αὐτὴν τὴν εἰκόνα τῶν πραγμάτων, κατ᾿ ἐνιαυτὸν ταῖς αὐταῖς θυσίαις ἅς προσφέρουσιν εἰς τὸ διηνεκὲς, οὐδέποτε δὺναται τοὺς προσερχομένους τελειῶσαι. The...
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 perfec...
HEB. 10:1. 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 TH...
The apostle, in order to display Christ's dignity as a High-Priest, having illustrated what he affirmed, (Hebrews 8:7,) namely, that the Levitical priests worshipped God in the tabernacle with the rep...
THE LAW; the ceremonial law, or Jewish economy. A SHADOW; an emblem of the blessings of the gospel, but not the blessings themselves, or even an exact likeness of them. THE COMERS THEREUNTO; to the...
The attentive reader cannot but notice the thoroughness with which this subject is treated in these Chapter s. It is a matter of profound importance, basic as regards any true knowledge of God, and as...
1-10 The apostle having shown that the tabernacle, and ordinances of the covenant of Sinai, were only emblems and types of the gospel, concludes that the sacrifices the high priests offered continual...
HEBREWS CHAPTER 10 HEBREWS 10:1 The sacrifices of the law, being often repeated, could not take away sins. HEBREWS 10:5 The abolition of them, and substitution of Christ's body in their stead, foretol...
Five Books in Reply to Marcion Through a mirror[221] Five Books in Reply to Marcion bound, but persons real;[259] Five Books in Reply to Marcion By the arrival of the "perfect things."[260] Meth...
Hebrews 10:1 For G1063 law G3551 having G2192 (G5723) shadow G4639 things G18 come G3195 (G5723) not...
THE OLD COVENANT (THE LAW) COULD NOT DO MAKE MEN AND WOMEN PERFECT. IT WAS A FAILURE AS FAR AS TAKING AWAY SIN WAS CONCERNED (HEBREWS 10:1)....
‘For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually (or ‘in perpetuity'), make perf...
Hebrews 10:1-18. We now reach the conclusion of the argument, which is also in part a repetition. Christ's offering of Himself, as contrasted with the yearly offerings of the Law, is the completion of...
Hebrews 10:1. For a particle that connects the argument with the last verses of chap. 9. The sacrifice of Christ will not be repeated, we are told in Hebrews 9:28. Nor need it, is the statement here...
SHADOW (σκιαν). The contrast here between σκια (shadow, shade caused by interruption of light as by trees, Mark 4:32) and εικων (image or picture) is striking. Christ is the εικων of God (2 Corinthi...
PERFECT (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 5:48). _...
Hebrews 10:1 Lo, I come. I. None but the Son of God could offer unto the Father a sacrifice to please Him, and to reconcile us unto Him in a perfect manner. The burnt-offerings and sin-offerings were...
Hebrews 10:1. _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 the...
Hebrews 10:1. _For the law_ The old ceremonial law of Moses, Hebrews 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 o...
Hebrews 10:1. _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 the...
Hebrews 10:1. _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 the...
CONTENTS: Law only a shadow of things to come. Through Christ a way made into the Holiest for all believers. Warning to the Hebrews who were wavering between Jewish sacrifices and Christ's finished wo...
Hebrews 10:1. _The law having a shadow of good things to come._ St. Paul, ere his epistles were engrossed, weighed his words, adjusted his thoughts, collated them with the prophets, and knew the suppo...
THE JEWISH LAW. The Jewish Law was a thing of pride, even to the point of fanaticism. Compare Acts 21:20-28 and notes. Is NOT. The Law did not display the _coming realities_ in a form that people coul...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 10:1 In contrast to the repeated OT sacrifices, Jesus came in order to eternally sanctify his people through offering himself as a sacrifice once for all. ⇐
CHRIST’S ONE SACRIFICE IS ALTOGETHER SUFFICIENT _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE first eighteen verses of this chapter are in the nature of a summary of what has already been presented, with some...
EXPOSITION HEBREWS 10:1 CONCLUDING SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT WITH RESPECT TO CHRIST'S ETERNAL PRIESTHOOD....
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very substance of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perf...
Colossians 2:17; Hebrews 10:11; Hebrews 10:14; Hebrews 10:3;...
The arrangement of the verse is much disputed. Rend. "The law, with the same sacrifices which they continually renew year by year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect." 217 A shadow [σ κ ι α ν...
From all that has been said it appears, that the law, the Mosaic dispensation, being a bare, unsubstantial shadow of good things to come, of the gospel blessings, and not the substantial, solid image...
In the former part of this chapter, the apostle proves the impotency and imperfection of the Levitical sacrifices by sundry arguments; namely, first from the nature of them, they were but shadows; fro...