Hebreus 8:1-2 NVT

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 8:1-5

Heaven the place where this great High Priest ministers. Does the writer mean, "This is the summing up," or "This is the chief point"? We accept the latter, and that we have here no recapitulation, but an advance, the point to which he has been coming from the first. Christ, High Priest; Christ, High Priest greater than Aaron. So far we have come. Subject—Heaven the place where this great High Priest ministers. From this comes the truth to which he has been looking from the beginning,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 8:1-5

Here we have The substance of the argument, and illustrations hitherto adduced. It was the aim of the writer to show from prophecy, and the nature of the priesthood, and sacrifices of the Mosaic Law, the unrivalled and peculiar glory of Jesus Christ, and in these few verses the truths of the preceding arguments are recapitulated. It hints at the desirableness of reviewing the course of exposition, and the advantage, well known to all teachers, of the value and necessity of repeating... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 8:1-6

The chief point. This passage does not present a recapitulation of the topics already considered; it emphasizes, as the crowning topic in connection with our Lord's priesthood, the fact that he has been "made higher than the heavens." I. THE HEAVENLY MAJESTY OF OUR HIGH PRIEST . ( Hebrews 8:1 ) He dwells now in heaven, his native home. He occupies there the loftiest place; for he shares the sore-reign authority and the universal dominion of the absolute God. Aaron... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 8:2

A minister of the sanctuary ( τῶν ἁγίων , neuter, as in Hebrews 9:12 , equivalent to "the holy places;" cf. Hebrews 9:8 ; Hebrews 10:19 ), and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. The sphere of Christ's priestly ministration ( λειτουργὸς λειτουργεῖν , λειτουργία , being the recognized words in the LXX . and Josephus for denoting sacerdotal functions,—hence Liturgy ) is thus in the first place pointed to as being a heavenly one,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 8:1

Now of the things which we have spoken - Or, “of the things of which we are speaking” (Stuart); or as we should say, “of what is said.” The Greek does not necessarily mean things that “had been” spoken, but may refer to all that he was saying, taking the whole subject into consideration.This is the sum - Or this is the principal thing; referring to what he was about to say, not what he had said. Our translators seem to have understood this as referring to a “summing up,” or recapitulation of... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 8:2

A minister of the sanctuary - Margin, “or holy things.” Greek τῶν ἁγίων tōn hagiōn. The Greek may either mean “the sanctuary” - denoting the Holy of Holies; or “holy things.” The word “sanctuary” - קדשׁ qodesh - was given to the tabernacle or temple as a “holy place,” and the plural form which is used here - τὰ ἅγια ta hagia - was given to the most holy place by way of eminence - the full form of the name being - קדשׁ qodesh קדשׁ קדּשׁים qodesh qodâshiym, or, ἅγια ἅγιων hagia... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 8:1

Hebrews 8:1. The apostle having shown that Jesus, as a High-Priest, is superior to all the Levitical high-priests, inasmuch as, like Melchisedec, he is a King, as well as a Priest; nay, a more righteous King than even Melchisedec, being absolutely free from sin, he in this and the following chapter, for the further illustration of the glory of Christ, as a High-Priest, compares his ministrations with those of the Levitical high-priests, both in respect of the place where he officiates,... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 8:2

Hebrews 8:2. A minister Λειτουργος , a public minister, who, having entered within the veil, now ministers, or executes, the remaining part of his office in his human nature, representing the merit of his own sacrifice, as the high-priest represented the blood of those sacrifices once a year; of the sanctuary The place of God’s glorious presence, typified by the holy of holies of the Jewish tabernacle and temple, where were the mercy-seat and ark, the symbols of God’s presence with... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:1-13

A new priest and a new covenant (8:1-13)Only once a year could the Levitical high priest enter God’s symbolic dwelling place (the Most Holy Place), but Christ the great high priest lives in the actual presence of God for ever (8:1-2). Levitical priests offered animal sacrifices, but Christ offered himself. He did not make this offering as a Levitical priest (for he was not of the family of Aaron), but the work of the Levitical priests pictured his work. The sacrifices they offered were a... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 8:1

of = upon. Greek. epi. App-104 . sum = main point. Greek. kephalaio. See Acts 22:28 . such . Emphatic. is set = sat down. See Hebrews 1:3 . on . Greek. en. App-104 . Majesty . Greek. megalosune. See Hebrews 1:3 . in . Greek. en. the heavens . See Matthew 6:9 , Matthew 6:10 . read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 8:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 8:1-5

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 8:1-6

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 8:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 8:1

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 8:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 8:1

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 8:2

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:1-13

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 8:1

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