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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 10
We are sanctified by the shedding of the blood of Christ—Superiority
of his sacrifice—Those who fall from grace through wilful sin are
damned—The just shall live by faith.
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The whole of the intent of the Law of Moses shown to be so fulfilled in
Christ Jesus—We are sanctified by the shedding of the blood of Christ
not the blood of animals—The Superiority of his sacrifice
expounded—Those who fall from grace through wilful sin unrepented are
damned—The just shall live by faith in him unto repentance and
sanctification in a new life in him through the Holy Ghost.
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1 For the alaw having a
bshadow of good things to
comea, and not the very
image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered
cyear by year continually make the comers thereunto
perfect.
2 For then would they not have ceased to be
offered? because that the worshippers once apurged should
have had no more bconscience of sins.
3 But in those asacrifices
there is a bremembrance again made of sins every
year.
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1a the law having a shadow of good things
to come The whole of the Law of Moses, The Law of Sacrifice, was
but a type and shadow of that which was to come. It was a similitude of the
coming atonement of Jesus Christ, from the high priests so representing him
in their performances before the Father in the holy of holies, to the outward
animal sacrifices upon the altars in the outer court. They all were a type and
shadow of Jesus Christ and that work he would perform to bring about the
successful completion of the Plan of God. They were not an end in themselves
as being 'the very image of things', but they were but a type and a shadow,
an ends to the means of looking forward to the events of the coming of Jesus
Christ, those good things to come. And when he had come no longer were they
needed, no longer was the law which was a type of that to come was needed.
For they had come and could and would now stand upon there own actuallity and
not merely a shadow of that to come, for they had come and were and were
now accomplished in Jesus Christ, who was they whole entend and purpose and
intent of the law and what it proposed to be.
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4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
6 In burnt offerings and
asacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
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7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
10 By the which will we are
asanctified through the boffering
cof the dbody of Jesus Christ
eonce for all.
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11 And every priest standeth
adaily ministering and offering oftentimes the same
sacrifices, which can never take away bsins:
12 But this man, after he had offered one
asacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of
God;
13 aFrom henceforth
expecting till his enemies be made his footstool.
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14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.
15 Whereof the aHoly
Ghost also is a bwitness to us: for after that he had said
before,
16 This is the
acovenant that I will make with them after those days,
saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their
bminds will I write them;
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17 And their sins and iniquities will I remember no more.
18 Now where aremission of
these is, there is no more offering for sin.
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19 Having therefore, brethren,
aboldness to enter into the bholiest by
the blood of Jesus,
20 By a new and living way, which he hath
consecrated for us, through the aveil, that is to say, his
flesh;
21 And having an
ahigh priest over the house of God;
22 Let us adraw
bnear with a true heart in full assurance of
cfaith, having our hearts dsprinkled from
an evil econscience, and our bodies washed with pure
water.
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23 Let us hold fast the
aprofession of our bfaith without
wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
24 And let us aconsider one
another to bprovoke unto love and to good works:
25 Not forsaking the
aassembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some
is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see
the day approaching.
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26 For if we asin
bwilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the
truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
27 But a certain fearful looking for of
judgment and fiery aindignation, which shall devour the
adversaries.
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28 He that adespised Moses'
law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29 Of how much sorer
apunishment, 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 hath done
bdespite unto the Spirit of grace?
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30 For we know him that hath said,
aVengeance belongeth unto me, I will
brecompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall
cjudge his people.
31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
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32 But call to remembrance the former days, in
which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great afight
of afflictions;
33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds,
and took ajoyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in
yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring
bsubstance.
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35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
36 For ye have need of
apatience, that, after ye have done the
bwill of God, ye might receive the
cpromise.
37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
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38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if
any man adraw back, my soul shall have no pleasure
in him.
39 But we are not of them who
adraw back unto bperdition; but of them
that believe to the saving of the soul.
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