Hebrews 9:13,Hebrews 9:14,Hebrews 9:23

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:13-14

Ceremonial and spiritual purification. There are here— I. THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR CEREMONIAL PURIFICATION . A red heifer—the color of red signifying the inflaming nature of sin—was to be slain by a priest; but not the high priest, who was to abstain from all contact with death. And the body and the blood were to be burnt outside the camp. Some of the blood was sprinkled towards the tabernacle, and during the process of burning, cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool were thrown... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:13-14

Christ a self-presented offering to purify the consciences of men. I. AN ARGUMENT FROM THE LESS TO THE GREATER . The writer reminds his readers of a kind of cleansing already practiced by them, and believed to be efficacious for its purpose. From their point of view, they had no difficulty in believing that something was really done when defiled people were sprinkled with the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer. Whatever had communicated the defilement was... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:13

For if the blood of bulls and of goats - Referring still to the great day of atonement, when the offering made was the sacrifice of a bullock and a goat.And the ashes of an heifer - For an account of this, see Numbers 19:2-10. In ver. 9, it is said that the ashes of the heifer, after it was burnt, should be kept “for a water of separation; it is a purification for sin.” That is, the ashes were to be carefully preserved, and being mixed with water were sprinkled on those who were from any cause... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 9:13-14

Hebrews 9:13-14. For, &c. The truth intended to be confirmed in these verses, is that which the apostle had asserted in the two preceding, namely, That Christ by his blood hath obtained for us eternal redemption. And his words contain both an argument and a comparison, to this effect: “If that which is less can do that which is less, then that which is greater can do that which is greater; provided also that less, in what it did, was a type of what was greater in that greater... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hebrews 9:11-14

Priestly work under the new covenant (9:11-14)When the Jewish high priest entered the Most Holy Place, God’s symbolic presence, he took the blood of the sacrificial animal with him. This was a sign that an innocent substitute had died for the guilty sinner, so that the barrier to God’s presence through sin might be removed. Jesus Christ, the great high priest, offered himself as the sacrifice, and through his blood (i.e. by means of his sacrificial death) entered the presence of God, obtained... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 9:13

if . Greek. ei . App-118 . bulls, &c . See Leviticus 16:0 . ashes, &c . See Numbers 19:2-20 . sprinkling . Greek. rhantizo. See App-136 . purifying . Greek. katharotes. Only here. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 9:13

For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh: how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish unto God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?The use of blood of bulls and goats on the Day of Atonement has already been discussed; and for the ritual with the ashes of a red heifer, see Numbers 19. These were used for... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 9:13-14

Hebrews 9:13-14. For if the blood of bulls and of goats,— The legal impurities debarred the Jews from an attendance upon the public service; but they were freed from these bythe sacrifices, washings, and sprinklings appointed by the Mosaic law, which are called carnal ordinances, Heb 9:10 and so became qualified again for the public worship; and of this the apostle speaks under the notion of sanctification, as typical of that internal sanctification which he speaks of in Hebrews 9:14. That this... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:13

13. if—as we know is the case; so the Greek indicative means. Argument from the less to the greater. If the blood of mere brutes could purify in any, however small a degree, how much more shall inward purification, and complete and eternal salvation, be wrought by the blood of Christ, in whom dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead? ashes of an heifer— ( :-). The type is full of comfort for us. The water of separation, made of the ashes of the red heifer, was the provision for removing ceremonial... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 9:11-15

The superior priestly ministry 9:11-15 read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:13-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:13-14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 9:13-14

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hebrews 9:11-14

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 9:13

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 9:13

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 9:13-14

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:13

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 9:11-15

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