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A Deliberate Replacement
Commentators unanimously explain that this verse describes the complete abolition of the Old Testament sacrificial system ('the first'). It is not merely updated or supplemented. Scholars like Spurgeon call it the replacement of the 'type' with the 'Antitype' (Christ). The Expositor's Bible Commentary notes the two systems are mutually exclusive; one must be taken away for the other to be established.
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Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 10:9
18th Century
Theologian
Then said he. In another part of the passage quoted. When he had said that no offering which man could make would avail, then he said that…
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 10:9
The which (αιτινες). "Which very things" (θυσια).
Then hath he said (τοτε ειρηκεν). That is Christ. Perfec…
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 10:9
19th Century
Bishop
Then he said, Lo, I come.—Rather, then he has said, Lo, I have come to do Your will. The words “O God” are not in the tru…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Hebrews 10:6–9
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Hebrews 10:9
The words that Christ spoke through the psalmist about doing God’s will are there for all time and express what Christ did. The verb “sets aside” (…
John Calvin
On Hebrews 10:9
16th Century
Theologian
He taketh away, and so on. See now why and for what purpose this passage was quoted, so that we may know that the full and perfec…
John Gill
On Hebrews 10:9
17th Century
Pastor
Then said he, [lo], I come to do your will, O God
(See Gill on Hebrews 10:7)
he takes away t…
Matthew Henry
On Hebrews 10:1–10
17th Century
Minister
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…