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Selected Verse: Hebrews 10:9 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Heb 10:9 |
King James |
Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Then said he--"At that time (namely, when speaking by David's mouth in the fortieth Psalm) He hath said." The rejection of the legal sacrifices involves, as its concomitant, the voluntary offer of Jesus to make the self-sacrifice with which God is well pleased (for, indeed, it was God's own "will" that He came to do in offering it: so that this sacrifice could not but be well pleasing to God).
I come--"I am come."
taketh away--"sets aside the first," namely, "the legal system of sacrifices" which God wills not.
the second--"the will of God" (Heb 10:7, Heb 10:9) that Christ should redeem us by His self-sacrifice. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
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 he would come himself.
He taketh away the first - The word "first" here refers to sacrifices and offerings. He takes them away; that is, he shows that they are of no value in removing sin. He states their inefficacy, and declares his purpose to abolish them.
That he may establish the second - To wit, the doing of the will of God. The two stand in contrast with each other, and he shows the inefficacy of the former, in order that the necessity for his coming to do the will of God may be fully seen. If they had been efficacious, there would have been no need of his coming to make an atonement. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
He taketh away the first that he may establish the second
Removes that which God does not will, the animal sacrifice, that he may establish that which God does will, the offering of an obedient will. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Then said he - in that very instant he subjoined. Lo, I come to do Thy will - To offer a more acceptable sacrifice; and by this very act he taketh away the legal, that he may establish the evangelical, dispensation. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
He taketh away the first - The offerings, sacrifices, burnt-offerings, and sacrifices for sin, which were prescribed by the law.
That he may establish the second - The offering of the body of Jesus once for all. It will make little odds in the meaning if we say, he taketh away the first covenant, that he may establish the second covenant; he takes away the first dispensation, that he may establish the second; he takes away the law, that he may establish the Gospel. In all these cases the sense is nearly the same: I prefer the first. |
9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.