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how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
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A Superior Sacrifice
Commentators emphasize the 'how much more' logic of this verse. While Old Testament sacrifices could only provide external, ceremonial cleansing for the body, the blood of Christ provides a far superior, internal cleansing. It purifies the conscience from the deep-seated guilt of sin, something no animal sacrifice could ever accomplish.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
How much more shall the blood of Christ. As being infinitely more precious than the blood of an animal could possibly be. If the blood of …
How much more (ποσω μαλλον). Instrumental case, "by how much more," by the measure of the superiority of Christ's blood to that of…
19th Century
Anglican
Through the eternal Spirit.—Better, through an eternal Spirit; for in a passage of so much difficulty it is important to …
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Baptist
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh: how much m…
The “how much more” argument stresses the incomparable greatness of Christ and his work for us. “The blood of Christ” means Christ’s death regarded…
16th Century
Protestant
Who through the eternal Spirit, etc. He now clearly shows how Christ’s death is to be understood, not by the external act, but by…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
How much more shall the blood of Christ Which is not the blood of a mere man, but the blood of the Son of God; and t…
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…
13th Century
Catholic
Having shown the significance of things related to the Old Testament and the first tabernacle, the Apostle now describes the condition of things re…
