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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Hebrews 8 - Introduction

* The excellence of Christ's priesthood above that of Aaron is shown. (1-6) The great excellence of the new covenant above the former. (7-13)

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See also Hebrews 8 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Analysis Of The Chapter This chapter Hebrews 8:1 is a continuation of the argument which has been prosecuted in the previous chapters respecting the priesthood of Christ. The apostle had demonstrated...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Having compared the two Priesthoods, and shewn the inferiority of the Aaronic priesthood to that of Christ as "a High Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek," the writer now proceeds to contra...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    THE PRIESTHOOD BEING CHANGED -- Hebrews Eight -- Hebrews chapter eight is a continuation of the discussion of the priesthood of Christ. He is a priest, by an oath, after the order of Melchizedek. Ch...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _BY THE ETERNAL PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST, THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD OF AARON IS ABOLISHED; AND THE TEMPORAL COVENANT WITH THE FATHERS, BY THE ETERNAL COVENANT OF THE GOSPEL._ _Anno Domini 63._ THE apostl...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _MULTIPLE CHOICE OVER CHAPTER EIGHT_ 1. We do not offer sacrifices today as did the Jew: 1. Because it is not customary. 2. We do not need to think of sin. 3. Christ was our sacrifice once for...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 formerly (g-11) Or 'of old.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    VIII. The mode in which this chapter is introduced shows that, in the writer’s own arrangement, a new division of the argument begins here. On examination we shall find that there is a clear differenc...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO HEBREWS 8 The apostle observing that the priesthood of Christ is the sum of what he had treated of in the preceding chapter, proceeds to show the superior excellency of it in other in...

  • John Owen’s Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews(7 vols)

    THERE are two general parts of this chapter 1. A further explication of the excellency of the priesthood of Christ, or of Christ himself as vested with that office, that is, both in his personal glo...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 8. JESUS OUR GREAT HIGH PRIEST AND THE NEW COVENANT. This chapter continues where the previous chapter left off. The writer had amply demonstrated that Jesus Christ was proclaimed to be a prie...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    CHAP. Hebrews 8:1 to Hebrews 10:18. Not only is Christ greater than Aaron, but His functions, and the place where He fulfils them, and His very posture there, are all superior to those of the priests...

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