25Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;
Linguistic Insight
Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.
Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption for us.
But into the second went the high priest alone once every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself, and for the errors of the people:
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 23-29)In this last part of the chapter, the apostle goes on to tell us what the Holy Ghost has signified to us by the legal purifications of the patterns of the things in heaven, inferring thence the necessity of better sacrifices to consecrate the heavenly things themselves. I. The necessity of purifying the patterns of the things in heaven, Heb. 9:23. This necessity arises both from the divine appoint…
My Notes
Notes are saved on this device.