4For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
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And every priest standeth daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins:
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. …
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD, and bow myself before the high God? shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves of a year old? …
For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Here the apostle, by the direction of the Spirit of God, sets himself to lay low the Levitical dispensation; for though it was of divine appointment, and very excellent and useful in its time and place, yet, when it was set up in competition with Christ, to whom it was only designed to lead the people, it was very proper and necessary to show the weakness and imperfection of it, which the apostle…
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