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E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 9:14

Spirit . Same as Hebrews 9:8 . offered . Observe, not sacrificed. without spot . Greek. amomos. See Ephesians 1:4 . God . App-98 . from . Greek. apo. App-104 . dead works . See Hebrews 6:1 . serve . See Hebrews 9:9 (did the service). 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

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 9:12

Nor yet through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood, entered in once for all into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption.Two points of superiority in the high priesthood of Christ are stressed here, these being: (1) that by a more perfect medium, his own blood contrasted with blood of animals, and (2) that in a more exalted place of the offering, in heaven itself, Christ offered his own blood, not repeatedly, but once for all. The first of these superiorities... 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 9:8

Hebrews 9:8. The Holy Ghost this signifying, &c.— "The Holy Ghost manifesting, δηλουντος , plainly shewing this: not intimating, but clearly pointing it out,—that the way of the holies (or into the holy of holies,) was not open to all, while the first tabernacle stood." By the first tabernacle, the apostle does not mean that part of the tabernacle which he called the first tabernacle in the second verse; but he means the tabernacle as it was first ordered in the wilderness, long before... 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

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 9:12

Hebrews 9:12. Neither by the blood of goats, &c.— This and the preceding verse may be connected and paraphrased as follows: "But Christ an High-priest of good things to be afterwards bestowed, being come, through a greater and more perfect tabernacle, which was not, as the Jewish tabernacle, made with hands, or fashioned by men; being come (I say,) to the holy of holies, he entered once thereinto, not indeed with the blood of goats and calves, as the high-priests did,—having attained... 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

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