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John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 9:10

Verse 10 10.Until the time of reformation, etc. Here he alludes to the prophecy of Jeremiah. (Jeremiah 31:31.) (145) The new covenant succeeded the old as a reformation. He expressly mentions meats and drinks, and other things of minor importance, because by these trifling observances a more certain opinion may be formed how far short was the Law of the perfection of the Gospel. (146) read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 9:11

Verse 11 11.But Christ being come, etc. He now sets before us the reality of the things under the Law, that it may turn our eyes from them to itself; for he who believes that the things then shadowed forth under the Law have been really found in Christ, will no longer cleave to the shadows, but will embrace the substance and the genuine reality. But the particulars of the comparison between Christ and the ancient high priest, ought to be carefully noticed. He had said that the high priest... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:1-10

Arrangements of the first covenant. The Epistle to the Hebrews is the New Testament Leviticus. In itself, the book of the Jewish ritual is rather dry reading. "Nothing can well be duller or more dingy than the appearance of a stained-glass cathedral window to one who is looking on it from the outside of the building; but, when you enter and gaze at it from within, the whole is aglow with beauty" (Dr. W.M. Taylor). Now, from this Epistle we learn to read Leviticus with the bright gospel... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:6-10

The symbolism of the Jewish sacrifices. Only a partial reference, but enough to call up to the Hebrew mind the round of sacred offerings prescribed in Leviticus. I. PRELIMINARY INQUIRIES AS TO SACRIFICE IN GENERAL . 1. What was the origin of the sacrificial act? Did it originate with man or God? In favor of the former, there is the fact that it is not recorded that the first sacrifice was the result of a Divine call. But against this, we are told that the first... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:6-10

Symbolism of the sacrifices. The writer declares that the past dispensation of the Law was a parable or figure. The whole of this Epistle turns upon the interpretation of this parable. Our Lord employed many parables to set forth the nature of his kingdom. He presented many aspects and features and processes of the gospel; and the meaning of these things he explained to the humble and docile spirit of his disciples. In the condition of the Jews under the Law, there was the exclusion of the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:6-13

The Day of Atonement fulfilled, and its imperfect blessings perfected in Christ. In dealing with the abolition of the types of the old economy since their fulfillment in the high priesthood of Christ ( Hebrews 9:1-28 ; Hebrews 10:18 ), the writer comes here to dwell on the Jewish Day of Atonement. That day is the key to these and following verses, and the most forcible illustration of our Lord's high priestly work. This day was at the basis of the Jewish system; by its services,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:9

Which ( ἥτις , with its usual force) is a parable for the time present ( i.e. present as regarded from the standpoint of the old dispensation. The A.V., translating "then present," and using past tenses throughout, though departing from literalism, still gives, we conceive, the idea correctly); according to which (referring to "parable," if we adopt the best-supported reading, καθ ἥν . The Textus Receptus, followed by the A.V., has καθ ὅν , referring to "the time") are... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:9

The parabolic function of the tabernacle services. The tabernacle, with its contents and its institutions, was one great parable embracing and uniting many subordinate parables. A parable looking towards the time of the new covenant—the "present time," as the writer calls it; or, as we might even more closely render it, the impending season. For in God's economy the new state of things is to be ever looked at as impending. So Christ would have us, who rejoice in his first advent, to be... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:10

Rendered in A.V.," Which stood only in ( μόνον ἐπὶ ) meats and drinks and divers washings, and carnal ordinances [ καὶ δικαιώμασι σαρκὸς , Textus Receptus], imposed on them ( ἐπικείμενα ) until the time of reformation." This is a satisfactory rendering of the Textus Receptus, ἐπὶ before "meats," etc., being taken in the sense of dependence , and ἐπικείμενα necessarily as agreeing with "gifts and sacrifices" ( δῶρα τε καὶ θυσίαι ) in Hebrews 9:9 .... read more

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