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Then I said, `Behold, I have come (In the scroll of the book it is written of me) To do your will, God.`"
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Christ's Willing Obedience
Commentators emphasize that Christ's declaration, "Lo, I come," signifies a cheerful and willing obedience. Unlike the animal sacrifices of the Old Covenant, Christ's mission was a personal, intentional act to perfectly fulfill God's will. His sacrifice was not a reluctant duty but a deliberate offering of himself to accomplish what the old system could not.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Then said I. I the Messiah. Paul applies this directly to Christ, showing that he regarded the passage in the Psalm as referring to him as…
Then (τοτε). When it was plain that God could not be propitiated by such sacrifices.
Lo, I am come (Ιδου η…
19th Century
Anglican
Lo, I come.—Rather, Lo, I am come—I am here. The original meaning of the following words is not quite certain. T…
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Baptist
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you have had no pleasure. Then said I, Look, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me) t…
“Therefore” introduces the next stage of the argument. Because the Levitical sacrifices were powerless to deal with sin, another provision had to b…
16th Century
Protestant
In the volume or chapter of the book, etc. Volume is properly the meaning of the Hebrew word, for we know that books were formerl…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Then said I, lo, I come Christ observing that legal sacrifices were not acceptable to God; that there was a body pre…
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…
13th Century
Catholic
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…
