So not our righteousness, nor any other priest's sacrifice, but Christ alone atones; and as the high priest before offering incense had on common garments of a priest, but after it wore his holy garments of "glory and beauty" ( Exodus 28:2 Exodus 28:40 ) in entering the holiest, so Christ entered the heavenly holiest in His glorified body. 21. it is appointed--Greek, "it is laid up (as our appointed lot)," Colossians 1:5 . went--Greek, "enter": present tense. Not, "after this comes the heavenly glory." The sprinkling of the roll (so the Greek for "book") of the covenant, or testament, as well as of the people, implies that neither can the law be fulfilled, nor the people be purged from their sins, save by the sprinkling of the blood of Christ ( 1 Peter 1:2 ). Hebrews 8 could also be of interest: Jesus is the real âhigh priestâ, in spiritual conflict with the priests of the temple, of the mosaic law! Questions for Discussion and Thinking Further follow the verse-by-verse International Bible Lesson Commentary. covenant . 18. The Greek negative, "ou po," would deny the fact objectively; "me po" denies the thing subjectively. âRather, Furthermore we had the fathers of our flesh as chasteners ( i.e., to chasten us). Hebrews 5:9 And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation (NASB: Lockman). The time of the temple-worship really belonged to the Old Testament, but continued still in Paul's time and that of his Hebrew readers. THOLUCK explains, as elsewhere, "covenant . after this the judgment--namely, at Christ's appearing, to which, in Hebrews 9:28 , "judgment" in this verse is parallel. The covenanting parties used to pass between the divided parts of the sacrificed animals; but, without reference to this rite, the need of a sacrifice for establishing a covenant sufficiently explains this verse. He did not need to die again and again for each individual, or each successive generation of men, for He represents all men of every age, and therefore needed to die but once for all, so as to exhaust the penalty of death incurred by all. 2. 3. . with water--prescribed, though not in the twenty-fourth chapter of Exodus, yet in other purifications; for example, of the leper, and the water of separation which contained the ashes of the red heifer. As Jesus is the Son of God, he is superior to the *angels. God never said that he would be the Father of an *angel. The Jewish tabernacle and its utensils. The type is full of comfort for us. The thought of the former verses has been, âHe chastens as a lather.â. Hebrews 9:1-28 . under . washings--( Exodus 29:4 ). His righteousness for the remission of sins that are past." ashes of an heifer--( Numbers 19:16-18 ). Properly used of remitting a debt ( Matthew 6:12 , Matthew 18:27 Matthew 18:32 ); our sins are debts. . 9:3) where the Ark was placed, but in this verse the ARTICLE is absent and the term refers to the outer two-thirds of the sacred tent, called the holy place. . Or translate, "according to which" parabolic representation, or figure. In 1 Kings 8:9 , 2 Chronicles 5:10 , it is said there was nothing in the ark of Solomon's temple save the two stone tables of the law put in by Moses. Argument from the less to the greater. The sprinkling of the tabernacle with blood is added by inspiration here to the account in Exodus 30:25-30 , Exodus 40:9 Exodus 40:10 , which mentions only Moses' anointing the tabernacle and its vessels. 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