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Hebrews 9:28

Once

(απαξ). "Once for all" (verse Hebrews 9:26) as already stated.Shall appear a second time

(εκ δευτερου οφθησετα). Future passive indicative of οραω. Blessed assurance of the Second Coming of Christ, but this time "apart from sin" (χωρις αμαρτιας, no notion of a second chance then).Unto salvation

(εις σωτηριαν). Final and complete salvation for "them that wait for him" (τοις αυτον απεκδεχομενοις). Dative plural of the articular participle present middle of απεκδεχομα, the very verb used by Paul in Philippians 3:20 of waiting for the coming of Christ as Saviour.

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See also Hebrews 9:28 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Hebrews 9:28. _SO CHRIST WAS ONCE OFFERED_] He shall die no more; he has borne away the sins of many, and what he has done once shall stand good for ever. Yet _he will appear a second time witho...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    SO CHRIST WAS ONCE OFFERED - Since people are to die but once; and as all beyond the grave is fixed by the judgment, so that his death there would make no change in the destiny, there was a propriety...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The first tabernacle and its worship (Hebrews 9:1)_ 2. The blood and the perfect work accomplished (Hebrews 9:11) 3. The Priest in heaven (Hebrews 9:24)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    The surpassing worth of Christ's sacrifice, as compared with those of the first covenant, is again enforced. To cleanse the Tabernacle, which was the earthly type of the sanctuary in heaven, the sprin...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    So, then, if it was necessary that the things which are copies of the heavenly realities should be cleansed by processes like these, it is necessary that the heavenly realities themselves should be cl...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE GLORY OF THE TABERNACLE (Hebrews 9:1-5)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BEAR. Greek. _anaphero._ See Hebrews 7:27. LOOK. Greek. _apekdechomai._ See Romans 8:19. APPEAR. Greek. _horao._ App-133....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _was once offered_ Christ may also be said as in Hebrews 9:14 "to _offer Himself;_" just as He is said "to be delivered for us" (Romans 4:25) and "to deliver up Himself" (Ephesians 5:2). _to bear the...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE INDISPENSABLENESS AND EFFICACY OF THE DEATH OF CHRIST...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    CH. 9. After thus tracing the contrast between the Two Covenants, the writer proceeds to shew the difference between their _ordinances of ministration_ (Hebrews 9:1 to Hebrews 10:18). He contrasts the...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    Ὁ ΧΡΙΣΤΌΣ. “The Christ”; the Anointed High Priest. ἍΠΑΞ ΠΡΟΣΕΝΕΧΘΕΊΣ. “_Having been once offered_.” Christ may also be said as in Hebrews 9:14 “_to offer Himself_”; just as He is said “to be delivered...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΟΎΤΩΣ (G3779) так. Сравнение касается обоих терминов, смерти и суда. Жизнь Христа уже принесла свой результат. В данном случае Он появится во второй раз, безгрешный и несущий спасение, так как грех бы...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    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 loo...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    SO CHRIST WAS ONCE OFFERED— The comparison here used is this: "Whereas all men die once, and after this there is to be a judgment for them; so Christ died once, and, having offered himself to bear awa...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Necessity and Adequacy of the Better Sacrifice. Hebrews 9:23-28_ _TEXT_ Hebrews 9:23-28 Hebrews 9:23 It was necessary therefore that the copies of the things in the heavens should be clean

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    THE GREAT SACRIFICE (Hebrews 9:23-28) Our present passage is so exceeding full that it is expedient we should reduce our introductory remarks. Perhaps about all it is necessary to say is, that here i...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. CHRIST - Greek, 'THE Christ:' the representative MA...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    9:28 without (i-26) 'Apart from,' having nothing more to do with it. The first time He bore our sins, and was made sin (being sinless); but now, having put sins wholly away for them who look for Him,...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE NEW COVENANT AND THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST Hebrews 9:1 to Hebrews 10:39. The writer now proceeds to elaborate in greater detail the contrast between the old covenant and the new. The old covenant ha...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    APART FROM SIN] So RV. His First Coming was in connexion with sin; He came because of sin, and bearing sin to put it away (Hebrews 9:26); but His Second Coming will be 'apart from sin,' since in dying...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 9 A NEW WAY TO PRAISE GOD 9:1-28 THE OLD HOLY PLACE 9:1-10 V1 The first agreement had rules for praising God and giving him honour and r...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    SO CHRIST WAS ONCE OFFERED. — The ordinary translation, dividing the verse into two similar portions, fails to show where the emphasis really lies. The two members of the verse correspond to each othe...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    The necessity of cleansing the heavenly sanctuary and the efficiency and finality of Christ's one sacrifice....

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    οὕτως. The comparison extends to both terms, the once dying and the judgment. [_Cf._ Kübel, “die Korrespondenz ist nicht bloss die der gleichen Menschennatur, sondern das, dass mit dem Tod das, was da...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE ONE SACRIFICE THAT PUTS AWAY SIN Hebrews 9:21 Here are the three appearances of Christ: (1) _He appeared_ once, at the ridge or meeting-place of the ages-where the first Covenant and the second m...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Because of the better priesthood and the better covenant a better worship is established. First, the sanctuary is described. Christ is set forth as the One who has entered into a greater Tabernacle th...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    RESULTS OF CHRIST'S ENTRANCE INTO HEAVEN The very existence of Israel and all of the promises that she was to receive was dependent upon blood. The superior sacrifice of God's only Son was intended to...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of (s) many; (16) and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. (s) Thus the general promise is restrained to...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    To exhaust the sins of many. That is, of all, according to the style of the Scriptures. When he came first, he took upon him the load of our sins; but at his second coming, at the end of the world, he...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    REFLECTIONS Oh! the distinguishing mercy, to which, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Church is brought, in exchanging a worldly sanctuary, and carnal ordinances; for the open displays of gr...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    28._The second time without sin, etc. _The Apostle urges this one thing, — that we ought not to be disquieted by vain and impure longings for new kinds of expiations, for the death of Christ is abunda...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The epistle, recounting some particular circumstances which characterised the first covenant shews that neither were sins put away, nor was the conscience purged by its means, nor the entrance into th...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    SO CHRIST WAS ONCE OFFERED TO BEAR THE SINS OF MANY,.... As man dies but once, Christ was offered but once, or he suffered and died but once; and that was not on his own account, or for his own sins,...

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

    Καὶ καθ᾿ ὅσον ἀπόκειται τοῖς ἀνθρώποις ἅπαξ ἀποθανεῖν, μετὰ δὲ τοῦτο κρίσοις· οἵτω καὶ ὁ Χριστὸς ἅπαξ προσενεχθεὶς εἰς τὸ πολλῶν ἀνενεγκεῖν ἁμαρτίας, ἐκ δευτέρου χωρὶς ἀμαρτίας ὀφθήσεται τοῖς αὐτὸν ἀπ...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 28. _The second time without sin_] Imputed to him...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    HEB. 9:28. 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. _ Blank Bible: _ "See Dr. Owen in loc. p....

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And as it is appointed_, &c. Inasmuch as this is the constitution of God, that sinful _men_ shall _die once_, and but _once;_ (see the margin;) _and after this the judgment_ Of the great day, between...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    TO BEAR THE SINS OF MANY; to die on account of them, in the room and stead of sinners; the just for the unjust. 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 PETER 3:18. THEM THAT LOOK FOR HIM; his people, who expect his com...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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. Here the necessity of cleansing the heavenly sanctuary,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The demands of the new covenant satisfied by Christ's perfect sacrifice:...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    Chapter s 9 and 10 form a wonderful climax in the orderly presentation of the truth in this epistle: If according to the new covenant, a man must be morally fitted for the presence of God by means of...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    23-28 It is evident that the sacrifices of Christ are infinitely better than those of the law, which could neither procure pardon for sin, nor impart power against it. Sin would still have been upon...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OLBGrk; SO CHRIST WAS ONCE OFFERED TO BEAR THE SINS OF MANY: outwv kai is an illative connection between the antecedent HEBREWS 9:27, and this consequent; As it was appointed to men once to die, so it...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hebrews 9:28 so G3779 Christ G5547 offered G4374 (G5685) once G530 to G1519 bear G399 (G5629) sins...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CENTRALITY OF DEATH IN GOD'S SAVING PURPOSES IN ORDER FOR ALL THINGS TO BE CLEANSED AND PURIFIED (HEBREWS 9:18). We are now looking at the detailed explanation of Hebrews 1:3. How did the Son make...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And inasmuch as it is appointed to men once to die, and after this comes judgment, so Christ also, having been once offered to bear the sins of many, shall appear a second time, apart from sin, to th...

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

    Hebrews 9:27-28. And there can be no second dying, and so no second offering of Himself unto God. Such an arrangement would be against all analogy and all experience. Since man as such can die but onc...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    SINS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _ SALVATION (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Hebrews 9:24 The Threefold Manifestation of the Redeemer. I. The Redeemer's first appearance in the world was His Incarnation in the fulness of time as a member of the human race, to endure the deat...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Hebrews 9:1. _Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary._ That is to say, a material sanctuary, a sanctuary made out of such things as this world c...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Hebrews 9:24. _For 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:_ He has gone wit...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Ordinances and sanctuary of the old covenant as types of the new. The realities of the new covenant which is sealed by the blood of Christ. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Aaron, High Priest,...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Hebrews 9:2. _A tabernacle wherein was the candlestick._ For a description of this portable temple, which disdains borrowing figures from the Egyptian temples, though they had some figures analogous t...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    ONCE TO TAKE AWAY. He died only ONCE to _buy men for God_ (Revelation 5:9). BUT TO SAVE THOSE. See PHILIPPIANS 3:20-21; 1 John 3:1-3;...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Mediator of the new testament_ THE TWO MEDIATORS: I. Is WHAT RESPECTS JESUS AND MOSES ARE MEDIATORIALLY ALIKE. 1. Both of Divine appointment. 2. Both give to the world the notion of a covenant wi...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 9:27 APPOINTED... TO DIE ONCE. Every person has only one life before facing eternal JUDGMENT. This rejects the idea of reincarnation and of any second chance to believe after d...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 9:11 When compared to Mosaic tabernacle worship (vv. Hebrews 9:1), the new covenant high priesthood of Jesus provides a single superior sacrifice in a superior heavenly taberna...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 9:23. PATTERNS.—Copies, outlines, earthly representations. THESE.—Blood-sheddings; sacrifices of beasts. HEAVENLY THINGS.—Spiritual things; things of conscience...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION _The sphere _of Christ's "more excellent ministry," as the "Mediator of a better covenant," having been shown to be elsewhere than in the earthly tabernacle, the ministry itself is now con...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Hebrews chapter 9. In the eighth chapter of the book of Hebrews, he makes mention of the prophecy in Jeremiah where God said that in those days He was going to make a new covenant with the people, not...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 15:54; 1 John 3:2; 1 John 3:5; 1 Peter 2:24; 1 Peter 3:18

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Christ having once died to bear the sins — The punishment due to them. Of many — Even as many as are born into the world. Will appear the second time — When he comes to judgment. Without sin — Not as...

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