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The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:13-14

Ceremonial and spiritual purification. There are here— I. THE ARRANGEMENTS FOR CEREMONIAL PURIFICATION . A red heifer—the color of red signifying the inflaming nature of sin—was to be slain by a priest; but not the high priest, who was to abstain from all contact with death. And the body and the blood were to be burnt outside the camp. Some of the blood was sprinkled towards the tabernacle, and during the process of burning, cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool were thrown... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:13-14

Christ a self-presented offering to purify the consciences of men. I. AN ARGUMENT FROM THE LESS TO THE GREATER . The writer reminds his readers of a kind of cleansing already practiced by them, and believed to be efficacious for its purpose. From their point of view, they had no difficulty in believing that something was really done when defiled people were sprinkled with the blood of bulls and goats and the ashes of a heifer. Whatever had communicated the defilement was... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:14

How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purify your (al. our ) conscience from dead works to serve the living God? As in Hebrews 9:11 , Hebrews 9:12 Christ's entrance was contrasted with that of the high priest, so here is the sacrifice itself, in virtue of which he entered, similarly contrasted. The points of contrast to which attention is drawn are these: read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:12

Neither by the blood of goats and calves - The Jewish sacrifice consisted of the shedding of the blood of animals. On the great day of the atonement the high priest took with him into the most holy place:(1)The blood of a young bullock Leviticus 16:3, Leviticus 16:11, which is here called the blood of a “calf,” which he offered for his own sin; and,(2)The blood of a goat, as a sin-offering for others; Leviticus 16:9, Leviticus 16:15. It was “by,” or “by means of” - διὰ dia - blood thus... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:13

For if the blood of bulls and of goats - Referring still to the great day of atonement, when the offering made was the sacrifice of a bullock and a goat.And the ashes of an heifer - For an account of this, see Numbers 19:2-10. In ver. 9, it is said that the ashes of the heifer, after it was burnt, should be kept “for a water of separation; it is a purification for sin.” That is, the ashes were to be carefully preserved, and being mixed with water were sprinkled on those who were from any cause... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:14

How much more shall the blood of Christ - As being infinitely more precious than the blood of an animal could possibly be. If the blood of an animal had any efficacy at all, even in removing ceremonial pollutions, how much more is it reasonable to suppose may be effected by the blood of the Son of God!Who through the eternal Spirit - This expression is very difficult, and has given rise to a great variety of interpretation. - Some mss. instead of “eternal” here, read “holy,” making it refer... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 9:11-12

Hebrews 9:11-12. But Christ being come As if he had said, Though the types and legal ceremonies could not make the worshippers perfect, yet Christ, the antitype and truth, can. Here he comes to interpret and show the end of the typical services he had spoke of; a high-priest of good things to come Described Hebrews 9:15; that is, a dispenser of those benefits and advantages which were prefigured by the Mosaic institutions, but could only be obtained for us, and bestowed upon us, by the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 9:13-14

Hebrews 9:13-14. For, &c. The truth intended to be confirmed in these verses, is that which the apostle had asserted in the two preceding, namely, That Christ by his blood hath obtained for us eternal redemption. And his words contain both an argument and a comparison, to this effect: “If that which is less can do that which is less, then that which is greater can do that which is greater; provided also that less, in what it did, was a type of what was greater in that greater... read more

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 9:12

Neither . Greek. oude. once . Greek. ephapax. See Hebrews 7:27 . obtained = found, as in Hebrews 4:16 (find). eternal . App-151 . redemption . Greek. lutrosis. Only here and Luke 1:68 ; Luke 2:38 . read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:13-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:13-14

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 9:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:12

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 9:14

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 9:11-12

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 9:13-14

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Hebrews 9:11-14

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Hebrews 9:12

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