by a new and living way The word rendered "new" is not kainosas elsewhere in this Epistle, but prosphatos, which means originally "newly-slain." It may be doubted however whether the writer intended the oxymoron "newly-slainyet living." That the road was "new" has already been shewn in Hebrews 9:8-12. It is called "living" not as "life-giving" or "enduring," but because "the Lord of life" is Himself the way (John 14:6; comp. Ephesians 3:12).

which he hath consecrated The verb is the same as in Hebrews 9:18, "which He inaugurated for us."

through the vail, that is to say, his flesh There is here a passing comparison of Christ's human body to the Parochethor Veil (Hebrews 6:19; Hebrews 9:3) through which the High Priest passed into the Holiest, and which was rent at the crucifixion (Matthew 27:51). It was throughHis Suffering Humanity that He passed to His glory.

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