For (1) the law having a shadow of good things to (a) 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. (1) He prevents a private objection. Why then were those sacrifices offered? The apostle... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) Wherefore when he (b) cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a (c) body hast thou prepared me: (2) A conclusion following those things that went before, and encompassing also the other sacrifices. Seeing that the sacrifices of the law could not do it, the... [ Continue Reading ]
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the (d) first, that he may establish the second. (d) That is, the sacrifices, to establish the second, that is, the will of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) And every priest standeth (e) daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins: (3) A conclusion, with the other part of the comparison: The Levitical high priest repeats the same sacrifices daily in his sanctuary: upon which it follows that neither... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) From henceforth expecting till his enemies be made his footstool. (4) He prevents a private objection, that is, that yet nonetheless we are subject to sin and death, to which the apostle answers, that the full effect of Christ's power has not yet shown itself, but shall eventually appear when h... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) [Whereof] the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before, (5) Although there remains in us relics of sin, yet the work of our sanctification which is to be perfected, hangs on the same sacrifice which never shall be repeated: and that the apostle proves by referring a... [ Continue Reading ]
And their sins and iniquities will I remember (f) no more. (f) Why then, where is the fire of purgatory, and that popish distinction of the fault, and the punishment?... [ Continue Reading ]
Now where remission of these [is, there is] no more offering for (g) sin. (g) He said well, for sin: for there remains another offering, that is, of thanksgiving.... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, (6) The sum of the former treatise: We are not shut out from the holy place, as the fathers were, but we have an entrance into the true holy place (that is, into heaven) seeing that we are purged with the bloo... [ Continue Reading ]
By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his (h) flesh; (h) So Christ's flesh shows us the Godhead as if it were under a veil, For otherwise we could not stand the brightness of it.... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) Let us draw near with a (i) true heart in full assurance of faith, having our (k) hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with (l) pure water. (7) A most grave exhortation, in which he shows how the sacrifice of Christ may be applied to us: that is, by faith which also h... [ Continue Reading ]
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some [is]; but exhorting [one another]: (8) and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. (8) Having mentioned the last coming of Christ, he stirs up the godly to the meditation of a holy life, and cites the faithless falle... [ Continue Reading ]
For if we sin (m) wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, (m) Without any cause or occasion, or show of occasion.... [ Continue Reading ]
But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the (n) adversaries. (n) For it is another matter to sin through the frailty of man's nature, and another thing to proclaim war on God as on an enemy.... [ Continue Reading ]
(9) He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses: (9) If the breach of the law of Moses was punished by death, how much more worthy of death is it to fall away from Christ?... [ Continue Reading ]
(10) For we know him that hath said, Vengeance [belongeth] unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall (o) judge his people. (10) The reason of all these things is, because God is a revenger of those who despise him: otherwise he could not rightly govern his Church. Now th... [ Continue Reading ]
(11) But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; (11) As he terrified the fallers away from God, so does he now comfort them that are constant and stand firm, setting before them the success of their former fights, so stirri... [ Continue Reading ]
Partly, whilst ye were made a (p) gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became (q) companions of them that were so used. (p) You were brought forth to be shamed. (q) In taking their miseries, to be your miseries.... [ Continue Reading ]
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring (r) substance. (r) Goods and riches.... [ Continue Reading ]
For yet a (s) little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. (s) He will come within this very little while.... [ Continue Reading ]
(12) Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. (12) He commends the excellency of a sure faith by the effect, because it is the only way to life, which sentence he sets forth and amplifies by contrast.... [ Continue Reading ]