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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 9:9

was = is. figure . Greek. parabole. Here and Hebrews 11:19 translated "figure". Elsewhere in the Gospels always "parable", save Mark 4:30 . Luke 4:23 . for . Greek. eis . App-104 . time . See App-195 . then . Omit. in = according to. Greek. kata. App-104 . were = are. The Temple ritual still continuing. make . . . perfect. Greek. teleioo. App-125 . did the service = serves. Greek. latreuo. See Hebrews 8:5 . as pertaining to . Greek. kata, as above. the . Omit. conscience .... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 9:10

in = upon. Greek. epi . App-104 . washings . Greek. baptismos. App-115 . Carnal, &c . i.e. rites and ceremonies. Compare Acts 15:10 . imposed on . Greek. epikeimai. See Luke 23:23 . reformation . Greek. diorthosis . Only here. In this verse is the Figure of speech Antimereia ( App-6 ). read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 9:11

Christ . App-98 . being = having. an . Omit. good = the good. a = the perfect . Greek. teleios . App-125 . made, &c . Greek. cheiropoietos . See Acts 7:48 . building = creation. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 9:9

Which is a figure for the time present; according to which are offered both gifts and sacrifices that cannot, as touching the conscience, make the worshiper perfect, being only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.The use of the present tense in "is a figure" and "are offered" points to the temple and its services as still operative when Hebrews was written. The great weakness of the old covenant was its carnality. To be sure, the... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 9:11

But Christ having come a high priest of good things to come, through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation.But Christ having come a high priest shows that the author of Hebrews considered the public ministry of Christ with his passion, death, and resurrection to be the termination of the old order, and not his birth, a truth attested by Christ's fulfilling the law meticulously during his earthly sojourn.Of the good things to come is... read more

Thomas Coke

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

Hebrews 9:9. Which was a figure for the time then present,— The word then is not in the original, though our translators have not distinguished it, as usual in such cases, by putting it in a different character. By the present time many eminent commentators understand the present time of the temple service: "What the Holy Ghost pointed out from the construction of the tabernacle, and only the high-priest's entrance into it, holds equally now under the temple at this present time; in which gifts... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 9:11

Hebrews 9:11. But Christ being come, &c.— The apostle here begins to set forth the superiority of our High-priest, by shewing that, in respect to his priestly office, he has no concern with mundane, secular, worldlymatters, but is wholly engaged with future good things for his people. Christ did not pass into the holy of holies, as the Jewish high-priest, nor indeed did he pass through any tabernacle made with hands; but he went into a greater and more perfect tabernacle,—even into heaven... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

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

9. Which—"The which," namely, anterior tabernacle: "as being that which was" [ALFORD]. figure—Greek, "parable": a parabolic setting forth of the character of the Old Testament. for—"in reference to the existing time." The time of the temple-worship really belonged to the Old Testament, but continued still in Paul's time and that of his Hebrew readers. "The time of reformation" ( :-) stands in contrast to this, "the existing time"; though, in reality, "the time of reformation," the New Testament... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:10

10. Which —sacrifices. stood —consisted in [ALFORD]; or, "have attached to them" only things which appertain to the use of foods, c. The rites of meats, &c., go side by side with the sacrifices [THOLUCK and WAHL] compare :-. drinks— (Leviticus 10:9; Leviticus 11:4). Usage subsequently to the law added many observances as to meats and drinks. washings— (Leviticus 11:4- :). and carnal ordinances—One oldest manuscript, Syriac and Coptic, omit "and." "Carnal ordinances" stand in apposition to... read more

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