DISCOURSE: 2301 CHRIST ABOVE THE LEVITICAL PRIESTS Hebrews 9:11. _Christ being come an High-priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered i... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2302 THE JEWISH SACRIFICES TYPICAL OF CHRIST’S Hebrews 9:13. _If the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2303 NO REMISSION WITHOUT BLOOD Hebrews 9:22. _Without shedding of blood is no remission_. THE external administration of religion has been extremely different in different ages of the world: but the method of acceptance with God has been invariably the same. Before the Mosaic ritual was... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2304 USE OF TYPICAL PURIFICATIONS Hebrews 9:23. _It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better things than these_. THERE is very considerable difficulty in this passage. The scope of the... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2305 THE HOLY OF HOLIES A TYPE Hebrews 9:24. _Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us_. IT appears, at first sight, unworthy of God to appoint with such precision ev... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2306 CHRIST’S APPEARANCE TO TAKE AWAY SIN Hebrews 9:26. _Now once, in the end of the world, hath he appeared, to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself_. TO obtain a just knowledge of the Gospel, we should view it in its connexion with the law; partly, in a way of comparison; and partl... [ Continue Reading ]
DISCOURSE: 2307 CHRIST’S SECOND COMING Hebrews 9:27. _As it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time, without sin, unto salvation_. IT is probable that many in... [ Continue Reading ]