Category: Religion/Spirituality
In a day when so much has been written on almost every Scripture subject it requires some apology for offering anything further; but as different trains of thought are more suited to one than another, they may serve as useful remembrancers, although there may be nothing partic...
Having in the former pages noticed the manner in which the institutions of previous revelation have pointed to and been completed by the Gospel of Christ, let us now set forth s...
17. CHAPTER IV.The Apostle Peter, in the third chapter of Acts, says, “Those things which God before _had showed by the mouth of all His prophets_, that Christ should suffer, He hath so fulfil...
6. CHAPTER II.1st. _The daily sacrifices_. Two lambs of the first year—one in the morning and the other in the evening (and on the _Sabbath four lambs_, Num. xxviii 9); with their meat- and d...
5. CHAPTER I.“I am not come to destroy” (the law and the prophets) “but to fulfil. Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled”...
4. CHAPTER V.In a day when so much has been written on almost every Scripture subject it requires some apology for offering anything further; but as different trains of thought are more suit...
8. iii. 13), we need not suppose the offerers had, in general, anyunderstanding that what they did had a special relation to the better Mediator to come. As in the case of the brazen serpent they looked to it and were healed; so here they made...
14. Chapter 5 says, “Every _high priest_ taken from among men _is ordainedfor men in things pertaining to God_, that he may offer both gifts and _sacrifices for sin_” (ver. 1), that no man takes this honour unto himself, but he that is called of God a...
15. ix. 13, 14)“For the Law having a shadow (or shadowing forth) of good things to come, and not the very image (or substance and reality) of the things, can never by those sacrifices which th...
9. CHAPTER III.When we consider the bearings of the Mosaic laws on the religion of Christ, it is impossible to avoid a careful attention to the Epistle to the Hebrews, which so clearly sets fo...
7. xxix. 13); so the sacrifices bore with them no sweet savour of devotionIn contemplating the mass of sacrifices thus noted, we may easily enter into the feeling expressed by Paul (more especially as regarded circumcision)—“which neither we nor our f...
16. xxii. 43); when His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling toThe words referred to were spoken when Peter had made an attempt at resistance, and smitten off the ear of the High Priest’s servant, who came with others to take Jesus, and whe...
10. Chapter 1 sets forth that God, who had formerly spoken to men by_Prophets_, has now spoken to us _by His Son_, who, being the brightness of His glory and express image of His person, when He had by Himself _purged our sins_, sat down at the...
13. Chapter 3 opens with an invitation to consider this _Apostle_ and _HighPriest_ of our profession, faithful in all things to Him that appointed Him—far exceeding Moses in glory—for Moses was faithful as a servant; Christ as a son over His own house...
12. Chapter 2 sets forth also that Christ had passed through suffering, in2. CHAPTER III.3. CHAPTER IV.1. CHAPTER II.11. Chapter 2 opens with the exhortation that for this reason we ought to