Hebrews 10:2-9

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 10:2

Else would they not have ceased to be offered? because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins.The problem in this verse lies in the question of why it is implied that efficacious sacrifices able to perfect the worshipers, if they had existed, would have ceased. Would there not have been more and more men of each succeeding generation who needed to have the benefit of such sacrifices? Westcott said,The inefficiency of the sacrifices is proved by... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 10:3

But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance made of sins year by year. For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.Concerning the manner in which there was a remembrance of sins each year, and the same sins at that, see under preceding verse. Behold the contrast between the old law and the new, in the matter of their most sacred ceremonies and sacrifices on the Day of Atonement, which were directed to the remembrance of sins for which daily, weekly, monthly... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 10:5

Wherefore when he cometh into the world he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, But a body didst thou prepare for me; In whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sins thou hadst no pleasure: Then said I, Lo, I come (In the roll of the book it is written of me) To do thy will, O God.This quotation from Psalms 40:6-8 is introduced by the words, "When he cometh into the world," a reference to the incarnation of Christ, making him the true author of the words of David in this Psalm, and... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 10:8

Saying above, Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein (they which are offered according to the law).Here the author quotes the sense of the quotation from Psalms 40:6-8, and for notes on these words see under Hebrews 10:5-7. As is sometimes true in the Scriptures, what is written as a parenthesis turns out to be of surpassing importance, as for example, the epic parenthesis of John 10:35, "And the Scriptures... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 10:9

Then hath he said, Lo I come to do thy will. He taketh away the first that he may establish the second.In this verse it is plain why the parenthesis was introduced in the verse above; it was to show that "the first" does not apply to sacrifices, offerings, or the ceremonial part of the Jewish institution, nor to the law concerning priests, but to the first "law," that entire covenant with its ten commandments and everything else that pertained to it. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 10:2

Hebrews 10:2. For then would they not have ceased to be offered?— Many copies read this without the interrogation, For then they would have ceased to be offered. The sense is the same; but the true reading seems to be with the interrogation. The reasoning of the apostle here is this: "If the yearly sacrifices could make men perfect, there could be no occasion for such continual repetition of them: for if menwere once entitled to perfection, the yearly repetition of that which gave them their... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 10:4

Hebrews 10:4. For it is not possible, &c.— "And indeed the reason of this is plain: for it is in the nature of things impossible, that the blood of bulls and of goats should on the whole take away sins, or make a real atonement to God as the great Governor of the world, for the moral guilt of any transgression; though it may by divine appointment purifyfrom legal defilements, and put a stop to any further prosecution which might proceed in Jewish courts, or any such extraordinary judgment... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 10:5

Hebrews 10:5. Wherefore when he cometh into the world,— The following passage is a citation from Psalms 40:0 and the use of it plainly enough leads us to understand the words as uttered in the person of the Messiah; which is agreeable to other places in the Psalms. Indeed, unless we understand the words in this view, the citation must not only appear impertinent, but the proof urged to be none at all. But see the notes on that psalm. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 10:7

Hebrews 10:7. In the volume of the book— That is, in the Pentateuch. The apostle argues so plainly from this text, that it proves the psalm to which he refers, to be a literal prophesyof the Messiah: and consequently the 12th verse of it, which affords the only material argument against this interpretation, must either be explained of those iniquities, which though not properly Christ's own, were laid upon him, that is, were atoned for by him, (see Isaiah 53:6.); or rather those calamities... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 10:8

Hebrews 10:8. By the law;— That is, According to the law. read more

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