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Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 9:11-28

The final purging of sin 9:11-28The writer now focused on the issue of sacrifice."The argument moves a stage further as the author turns specifically to what Christ has done. The sacrifices of the old covenant were ineffectual. But in strong contrast Christ made an offering that secures a redemption valid for all eternity. In the sacrifices, a good deal pertained to the use of blood. So in accord with this, the author considers the significance of the blood of animals and that of Christ."... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 9:12

Blood is also a symbol of life (Leviticus 17:11). The point is that the lives of innocent animal substitutes were sufficient only to atone for sin temporarily. However the life of Jesus Christ, because He was a perfect human substitute, adequately paid for the redemption of all people forever. Having died "once for all" (Hebrews 7:27; Hebrews 10:10) He was able to enter God’s presence "once for all.""There have been expositors who, pressing the analogy of the Day of Atonement beyond the limits... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 9:13-14

Old Covenant sacrifices for sin on the Day of Atonement only provided temporary cleansing, but the sacrifice of Jesus Christ provided permanent cleansing. The reference to "the eternal Spirit" is unique in Scripture. The Holy Spirit had empowered and sustained Jesus in His office."It seems that the writer has chosen this unusual way of referring to the Holy Spirit to bring out the truth that there is an eternal aspect to Christ’s saving work." [Note: Morris, p. 87.] All three persons of the... read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Hebrews 9:12

9:12 by (b-2) by (b-9) See Note l, ver. 11. read more

John Darby

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Hebrews 9:14

9:14 worship (c-27) See Note i, ver. 9. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 9:1-28

The New Covenant and the Sacrifice of ChristHebrews 9:1 to Hebrews 10:39. The writer now proceeds to elaborate in greater detail the contrast between the old covenant and the new. The old covenant had its tabernacle with furniture and elaborate ceremonial and continual series of sacrifices, culminating in the annual visit of the high priest to the inner chamber of the tabernacle with sacrificial blood. But these very ceremonies implied the impossibility of communion with God, and were unable to... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 9:11-12

(11, 12) The changes of translation required in these verses are not considerable in themselves, but important for the sake of bringing out the unity of the sentence and the connection of its parts. But Christ having come a High Priest of the good things to come (or, the good things that are come, see below), through the greater and more perfect Tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation, also not through blood of goats and calves, but through His own blood, entered... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 9:13

(13) For if the blood of bulls and of goats.—This verse connects itself with the last words of Hebrews 9:12, “having won eternal redemption,” showing why our hope may rise so high. The sacrifice is mentioned here in words slightly different from those of Hebrews 9:11; but in each case the writer’s thought is resting on the sin offering of the Day of Atonement, a bullock for the high priest himself, a goat for the people. (There is no distinct reference in this Epistle to the “scapegoat” sent... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 9:14

(14) Through the eternal Spirit.—Better, through an eternal Spirit; for in a passage of so much difficulty it is important to preserve the exact rendering of the Greek, and the arguments usually adduced seem insufficient to justify the ordinary translation. By most readers of the Authorised version, probably, these words are understood as referring to the Holy Spirit, whose influence continually rested on “the Anointed One of God” (Acts 10:38). For this opinion there seems to be no foundation... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Hebrews 9:1-28

On Modernising Christianity Hebrews 9:10 While in a very real sense Christianity was a new religion in the days of St Paul, in another, following his suggestion, it was a corrective, a revision and a modernisation of the old. The centuries have moved onward and our faith is no longer young. There are those among us who think that Christianity is now over-antiquated, that she is too old-fashioned, and that possibly there ought to be done for her what she in her youth did for the Jewish religion... read more

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 9:11-28

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 9:12

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Hebrews 9:13-14

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Hebrews 9:12

Darby's Synopsis of the New Testament - Hebrews 9:14

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 9:1-28

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 9:11-12

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 9:13

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Hebrews 9:14

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Hebrews 9:1-28

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