Shadow (σκιαν). The contrast here between σκια (shadow, shade caused by interruption of light as by trees, Mr 4:32) and εικων (ima…

CHAPTER X

ANALYSIS OF THE CHAPTER

The general subject of this chapter is the sacrifice Christ has made for sin and the consequences t…

A Shadow of good things to come.—These words have already been discussed; the “shadow” in Hebrews 8:5, and “the good things to com…

For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered ye…

“The law” as used here stands for the whole OT, with particular reference to the sacrificial system. This is dismissed as no more than “a shadow” (…

For the Law having a shadow, etc. He has borrowed this comparison from the art of painting. A shadow here has a different meaning than it …

For the law having a shadow of good things to come
By which is meant not the moral law, for that is not a shadow of …

The apostle, having shown that the tabernacle and ordinances of the covenant of Sinai were only emblems and types of the gospel, concludes that the…

Having considered what was done in both testaments to show the superiority of the New Testament over the Old, the Apostle now proves something he h…