17Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.
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For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.
For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience;
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 16-23)The apostle concludes the chapter with exhortations to proper duty, which he infers from the foregoing discourse. I. Here is a caution to take heed of judaizing teachers, or those who would impose upon Christians the yoke of the ceremonial law: Let no man therefore judge you in meat nor drink , etc., Col. 2:16. Much of the ceremonies of the law of Moses consisted in the distinction of meats and da…
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