Hebrews 10:19

PART SECOND.

ADMONITORY, INSPIRATIONAL, AND PERSONAL, CONCLUSIONS.

1. ADMONITORY Having such a High Priest, beware of unbelief tending to apostasy and death, Hebrews 10:19-39.

19. Having In 19-22 we have a somewhat varied typical structure. Since the true atonement, Christians are a new Israel, and their divine privileges are sketched as parallel, yet superior, to those of the old Israel. The parallel in detail may be tabulated as follows:

Us, the new Israel the old Israel.

Our immediate access to God Israel’s temple access. The gracious Presence The holiest.

By blood of Jesus By animal sacrifices. Through his flesh Through the temple veil. Our High Priest The Jewish high priest.

In this our new temple, the house of God, we have a high priest, Jesus; under him an entrance even to the holiest, or gracious divine Presence; by sacrifice, namely, his shed blood; through the veil, his crucified flesh.

Therefore As a deduction from the entire previous argument. This full hortatory and personal deduction occupies the remainder of the epistle.

Boldness Both of heart and utterance. This boldness of heart is founded on our confidence in our mighty and royal High Priest. It pours itself forth in great freedom of utterance, namely, of prayer, of thanksgiving, and of profession and testimony to the world.

To enter Literally, of entrance; like Israel’s entrance before God into the sanctuary. But the new Israel enters with its high priest, even to the holiest. The holiest into which Christ entered is, indeed, the highest heaven, (Hebrews 8:1; Hebrews 9:24;) but in the present parallelism the divine Presence to which the Christian, through the atonement, has access, is, though locally different, yet spiritually identical with that.

Blood The most real antitype to the blood of the animal victims offered when, on the great day of atonement, the Jewish high priest entered the holiest.