14Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
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I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.
For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; …
I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and will not remember thy sins.
Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-15)The apostle here represents the privileges we Christians have above the Jews, which are very great. I. Christ’s death is our life: And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him , Col. 2:13. A state of sin is a state of spiritual death. Those who are in sin are dead in sin. As the death of the body consists in its separation from the soul…
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