Ashes (σποδος). Old word, in N. T. only here, Matthew 11:21; Luke 10:13. Common in LXX.

Of a …

For if the blood of bulls and of goats. Referring still to the great day of atonement, when the offering made was the sacrifice of a bullo…

For if the blood of bulls and of goats.—This verse connects itself with the last words of Hebrews 9:12, “having won e…

Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service per…

The author turns again to the Levitical sacrifices. In them he finds the power to effect an external purification, a cleansing from ritual defileme…

For if the blood of bulls, etc. This passage has caused many to go astray, because they did not consider that it speaks of sacram…

For if the blood of bulls and of goats
Shed either on the day of atonement, or at any other time: the former of thes…

All good things, past, present, and to come, were and are founded upon the priestly office of Christ, and come to us from there. Our High Priest en…

Having shown the significance of things related to the Old Testament and the first tabernacle, the Apostle now describes the condition of things re…