Hebrews 9:1
A comparison is now introduced between the priestly services of the first covenant, and the perfect priesthood of Christ, the Mediator of the new covenant.... [ Continue Reading ]
A comparison is now introduced between the priestly services of the first covenant, and the perfect priesthood of Christ, the Mediator of the new covenant.... [ Continue Reading ]
A TABERNACLE; the reference is to the movable tabernacle built by God's direction in the wilderness of Sinai, which had two divisions separated from each other by a curtain-the holy place and the most holy. See Exodus 26:1-37.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SECOND VEIL; the first, or outer veil, answered for a door to the tabernacle. Exodus 26:36-37. The second, or inner veil, separated the holy from the most holy place. Exodus 26:31-33.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE GOLDEN CENSER; in which the high-priest burned incense within the veil on the great day of atonement. Leviticus 16:12. It seems to have been kept in the holy of holies; but however this may have been, it belonged to its furniture, and is properly reckoned to it. Leviticus 16:12. THE ARK; EXODUS... [ Continue Reading ]
CHERUBIM; EXODUS 25:18; Exodus 25:22.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALWAYS; daily, habitually. FIRST TABERNACLE; the first apartment, called the holy place.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SECOND; second apartment, called the most holy. ONCE; that is, on one day. He entered the most holy place on that day several times. Leviticus 16:12; Leviticus 16:15. BLOOD; that of the victims offered in sacrifice. Leviticus 16:2-19; Leviticus 16:34.... [ Continue Reading ]
INTO THE HOLIEST OF ALL; that is, into God's presence. It was in the most holy place between the cherubim that he had his earthly dwelling-place under the Mosaic economy. See not to chap Hebrews 6:19. It was not yet revealed how men could approach God with acceptance. As a sign of this, his earthly... [ Continue Reading ]
A FIGURE; a shadow of good things to come under the Christian dispensation. PERFECT, AS PERTAINING TO THE CONSCIENCE; it could remove uncleanness and guilt only in a typical way. It had no power to quiet the conscience by removing its sense of guilt.... [ Continue Reading ]
STOOD-IN; consisted of. REFORMATION; the new and better order of things under the Christian dispensation.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF GOOD THINGS TO COME; of the substance of those good things of which the rites of the Mosaic economy were only the shadow. Compare chap Hebrews 10:1. BY A GREATER AND MORE PERFECT TABERNACLE; to be connected immediately with the words, "he entered in once," verse Hebrews 9:12. The meaning is, tha... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ASHES OF A HEIFER; Numbers 19:1-10. TO THE PURIFYING OF THE FLESH; to the removal of outward and ceremonial defilement; the flesh here representing that which is outward in man, as distinguished from that which is inward and spiritual.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ETERNAL SPIRIT; the Holy Spirit, given him without measure, and under whose influence he offered himself a sacrifice for the sin of men. PURGE YOUR CONSCIENCE FROM DEAD WORKS TO SERVE THE LIVING GOD; cleanse your consciences from the guilt and pollution of sin; make you spiritually alive, and e... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR THIS CAUSE; in view of what has just been said of the superior efficacy of his priesthood. THE NEW TESTAMENT; the words "covenant" and "testament" are, in the original, the same. The new covenant, of which Christ is the Mediator, is also a testament when considered as ratified and made valid by... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREUPON; for which reason. THE FIRST TESTAMENT; or covenant; God's arrangement with his people at Sinai. DEDICATED WITHOUT BLOOD; it was ratified by the blood of the sacrifice, which typified Christ, who ratified the second covenant with his own blood.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEN MOSES HAD SPOKEN; Exodus 24:4-11.... [ Continue Reading ]
TESTAMENT; covenant. See note to verse Hebrews 9:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SPRINKLED-ALL THE VESSELS; Exodus 29:12; Exodus 29:20; Exodus 29:36.... [ Continue Reading ]
PURGED; purified. Leviticus 4:20; Leviticus 4:26; Leviticus 4:35; Leviticus 17:11. As there can be no remission of sin except through the shedding of the blood of Christ and the atonement he has made, those who continue to reject him must remain under the guilt of unpardoned sin for ever.... [ Continue Reading ]
PATTERNS OF THINGS IN THE HEAVENS; the tabernacle and its furniture, typical of the true heavenly tabernacle. See note to verse Hebrews 9:11. BETTER SACRIFICES; the blood of Christ, which cleanses the conscience of all who believe from sin, and thus prepares them to enter with Christ their forerunn... [ Continue Reading ]
IN THE END OF THE WORLD; in the end of the ages; in those "last days" by which the Hebrew prophets represented the then distant future of the Christian dispensation. See note to 1 Corinthians 10:11. TO PUT AWAY SIN; to expiate it, and thus open the way for deliverance from its punishment, pollution... [ Continue Reading ]
AS IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MEN; he points out in these words the agreement between the one death of men who are to be redeemed, and the one death of their Redeemer, the man Christ Jesus.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 coming to judgment. Matthew 25:31-46. WITHOUT SIN; not as before to suffer for sin, but to give his pe... [ Continue Reading ]