11For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God;
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,
And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-16)We have here, I. A repetition and confirmation of the law against eating blood. We have met with this prohibition twice before in the levitical law ( Lev. 3:17 ; 7:26 ), besides the place it had in the precepts of Noah, Gen. 9:4. But here, 1. The prohibition is repeated again and again, and reference had to the former laws to this purport (Lev. 17:12): I said to the children of Israel, No soul of…
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