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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 8:6-13

In this part of the chapter, the apostle illustrates and confirms the superior excellency of the priesthood of Christ above that of Aaron, from the excellency of that covenant, or that dispensation of the covenant of grace, of which Christ was the Mediator (Heb. 8:6): his ministry is more excellent, by how much he is the Mediator of a better covenant. The body and soul too of all divinity (as some observe) consist very much in rightly distinguishing between the two covenants?the covenant of... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 8:7-13

8:7-13 For, if the first covenant, which is so well known to you, had been faultless there would have been no need to seek any place for a second one. It is to censure them that he says: "Look you the days are coming, says the Lord. when I will consummate a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. It will not be the same as the covenant which I made with their fathers, when I laid my hand on them to lead them forth from the land of Egypt; this must be so because they... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 8:10

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel ,.... That is, this is the sum and substance of the covenant, which God promised to make with, or to make manifest and known to his chosen people, the true Israelites, under the Gospel dispensation; or the following are the several articles of that covenant, he proposed to consummate or finish, as before: after those days, saith the Lord ; after the times of the Old Testament, when the Messiah shall be come, and the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 8:10

This is the covenant - This is the nature of that glorious system of religion which I shall publish among them after those days, i.e., in the times of the Gospel. I will put my laws into their mind - I will influence them with the principles of law, truth, holiness, etc.; and their understandings shall he fully enlightened to comprehend them. And write them in their hearts - All their affections, passions, and appetites, shall be purified and filled with holiness and love to God and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 8:10

Verse 10 10For this is the covenant that I will make, etc. There are two main parts in this covenant; the first regards the gratuitous remission of sins; and the other, the inward renovation of the heart; there is a third which depends on the second, and that is the illumination of the mind as to the knowledge of God. There are here many things most deserving of notice. The first is, that God calls us to himself without effect as long as he speaks to us in no other way than by the voice of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 8:6-13

The new covenant. Here we have another of the broad contrasts which everywhere meet us in this treatise. In those Epistles which are undoubtedly Paul's, the process of reasoning resembles the movement of a file of soldiers; but in this to the Hebrews, the movement resembles rather that of soldiers in rank. The writer introduces his contrast between the covenants with the remark ( Hebrews 8:6 ) that our Lord's heavenly ministry as greatly excels that of Aaron as the new covenant which... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 8:6-13

Christ in heaven, the Mediator of the new covenant. The argument of Hebrews 7:1-28 . has a further object than the mere proving our Lord's superiority to Aaron. The priesthood being altered and centered in him, most important facts bearing on the spiritual position of the Hebrews grow out of it. The priesthood was the center of the dispensation; they stood and fell together. A new priesthood means a new and better dispensation. That is the purport of Hebrews 8:10 -18, where this idea... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 8:6-13

The reasons assigned for the introduction of the new covenant. These consist of the suitability of the Lord Jesus to be engaged in the administration of a higher and nobler covenant than that which was established with Israel at Sinai. The more excellent ministry and the more excellent covenant go together. There were promises attached to the observance of the Mosaic which related to temporal blessings, such as harvests, vintages, and the peace and quiet of the land. The better covenant is... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 8:8-12

For finding fault with them (i.e. the people) , he saith (or, as some take it, finding fault, he saith to them ) , Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will accomplish upon the house of Israel and the house of Judah a new covenant: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. For this is the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 8:10

Law and love in the new covenant. "For this is the covenant that I will make," etc. The paragraph from which our text is taken is a quotation from Jeremiah 31:31-34 . It is said that the Lord "will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah;" but this is spoken, not of Israel according to the flesh, but of the spiritual Israel—the spiritual seed of Abraham (cf. Romans 2:28 , Romans 2:29 ; Romans 9:6-8 ; Galatians 3:7-9 ). Notice— I. THE ... read more

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