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 THEREUNTO PERFECT. In the following comment we find the author of _Images and Shadows of Divine Thing... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:2-4. FOR THEN WOULD THEY NOT HAVE CEASED TO BE OFFERED? BECAUSE THAT THE WORSHIPPERS ONCE PURGED SHOULD HAVE HAD NO MORE CONSCIENCE OF SINS. BUT IN THOSE (SACRIFICES THERE) A REMEMBRANCE AGAIN (MADE) OF SINS EVERY YEAR. FOR (IT IS) NOT POSSIBLE THAT THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND OF GOATS SHOULD TA... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:5. WHEREFORE, WHEN HE COMETH INTO THE WORLD, HE SAITH, SACRIFICE AND OFFERING THOU WOULDEST NOT, BUT A BODY HAST THOU PREPARED ME; _ Blank Bible: _ "[Body hast thou prepared me] see Bp. Kidder's Dem. Part 2.89-92 and Owen in Loc. p. 28.p.b.c.d.e." One may wonder how this text has anything... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:6. IN BURNT OFFERINGS AND (SACRIFICES) FOR SIN THOU HAST HAD NO PLEASURE. _ [T]hat ceremonial law _ which the Levitical priesthood fulfilled in offering up the sacrifices of beasts, and _that will _ or _law of God _ which X fulfill'd in offering up his human nature to God which was the thin... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:7. THEN SAID I, LO, I COME (IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME) TO DO THY WILL, O GOD. _ Blank Bible: _ "The meaning of this and how these words with those in the two preceding verses prove that we are saved by the positive Righteousness of Christ as well as by his atonement. s... [ Continue Reading ]
Heb. 10:8-18. Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offering and (offering) for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure (therein); which are offered by the law; Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the whi... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:19. HAVING THEREFORE, BRETHREN, BOLDNESS TO ENTER INTO THE HOLIEST BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS, Edwards connects this with Hebrews 10:22 and notes in "Concerning Faith": 3. Prayer is often plainly spoken of as the expression of faith. As it very certainly is in Romans 10:11-14, "For the Scriptu... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:20-21. BY A NEW AND LIVING WAY, WHICH HE HATH CONSECRATED FOR US, THROUGH THE VAIL, THAT IS TO SAY, HIS FLESH; AND (HAVING) A HIGH PRIEST OVER THE HOUSE OF GOD; Heb. 10:22... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:22. LET US DRAW NEAR WITH A TRUE HEART IN FULL ASSURANCE OF FAITH, HAVING OUR HEARTS SPRINKLED FROM AN EVIL CONSCIENCE, AND OUR BODIES WASHED WITH PURE WATER. _ Blank Bible: _ [our Bodies washed with pure water] See Owen in Loc. p. 65.c.d.e "referring to the custom of washing their bodies... [ Continue Reading ]
HEBREWS 10:23. LET US HOLD FAST THE PROFESSION OF (OUR) FAITH WITHOUT WAVERING; FOR HE (IS) FAITHFUL THAT PROMISED; This text contributes to Edwards' understanding of justifying faith as "nothing else, but true virtue" in his "Concerning Faith": Saving faith is called in Heb. 3:6,. "The confidenc... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:24-25. AND LET US CONSIDER ONE ANOTHER TO PROVOKE UNTO LOVE AND TO GOOD WORKS; NOT FORSAKING THE ASSEMBLING OF OURSELVES TOGETHER, AS THE MANNER SOME (IS); BUT EXHORTING (ONE ANOTHER; AND SO THE MUCH MORE, AS YE SEE THE DAY APPROACHING. _ Blank Bible: _ 10.25 and 27 vid last (?) p. p. 3 t... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:26. FOR IF WE SIN WILLFULLY AFTER THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH, THERE REMAINETH NO MORE SACRIFICE OF SINS, _ Blank Bible: _ _ sin willfully, etc._] By sinning after coming to the knowledge of the truth the apostle means apostatizing from Christianity after we are come... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:27. BUT A CERTAIN FEARFUL LOOKING FOR OF JUDGMENT AND FIERY INDIGNATION, WHICH SHALL DEVOUR THE ADVERSARIES. In the "Perseverance of the Saints" Edwards deals with this verse commonly adduced as opposed to that doctrine: § 32. As to the objections from such hypothetical propositions as th... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:28-29 HE THAT DESPISED MOSES' LAW DIED WITHOUT MERCY UNDER TWO OR THREE WITNESSES; OF HOW MUCH SORER PUNISHMENT, SUPPOSE YE, SHALL HE BE THOUGHT WORTHY, WHO HATH TRODDEN UNDER FOOT THE SON OF GOD, AND HATH COUNTED THE BLOOD OF THE COVENANT, WHEREWITH HE WAS SANCTIFIED, AN UNHOLY THING, AND... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:30-31. FOR WE KNOW HIM THAT HATH SAID, VENGEANCE (BELONGETH) UNTO ME, I WILL RECOMPENSE, SAITH THE LORD. AND AGAIN. THE LORD SHALL JUDGE HIS PEOPLE. (IT IS) A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD. In the awesome published sermon, "Men Naturally God's Enemies" Edwards prov... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:32. BUT CALL TO REMEMBRANCE THE FORMER DAYS, IN WHICH, AFTER YE WERE ILLUMINATED, YE ENDURED A GREAT FIGHT OF AFFLICTIONS; Edwards in "The Manner of Seeking Salvation" sees Hebrews 10:32 as a reference to men's struggles even after receiving "some saving comfort." It is with them as it wa... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:33-34. PARTLY, WHILST YE WERE MADE A GAZINGSTOCK BOTH BY REPROACHES AND AFFLICTIONS; AND PARTLY, WHILST YE BECAME COMPANIONS OF THEM THAT WERE SO USED. FOR YE HAD COMPASSION OF ME IN MY BONDS, AND TOOK JOYFULLY THE SPOILING OF YOUR GOOD, KNOWING IN YOURSELVES THAT YE HAVE IN HEAVEN A BETTER... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:35. CAST NOT AWAY THEREFORE YOUR CONFIDENCE, WHICH HATH GREAT RECOMPENSE OF REWARD. This with other texts of Scripture shows, according to "The Perseverance of the Saints," that "continuance in faith is necessary to continuance in justification…." § 7. It seems to be because continuance in... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:36-37. FOR YE HAVE NEED OF PATIENCE, THAT, AFTER YE HAVE DONE THE WILL OF GOD, YE MIGHT RECEIVE THE PROMISE. FOR YET A LITTLE WHILE, AND HE THAT SHALL COME WILL COME, AND WILL NOT TARRY. "Observations upon Passages of Scripture": Hebrews 10:37. - "For yet a little while, and he that shall... [ Continue Reading ]
HEB. 10:38-39. NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH: BUT IF (ANY MAN) DRAW BACK, MY SOUL SHALL HAVE NO PLEASURE IN HIM. BUT WE ARE NOT OF THEM WHO DRAW BACK UNTO PERDITION; BUT OF THEM THAT BELIEVE TO THE SAVING OF THE SOUL. The inseparability of faith and perseverance is not only maintained in "The P... [ Continue Reading ]