Animal Sacrifices Insufficient
Christ’s Death Fulfills God’s Will
a“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire,
But a body You have prepared for Me.
In the volume of the book it is written of Me—
To do Your will, O God.’ ”
Christ’s Death Perfects the Sanctified
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Hebrews 10:1
The law, having a shadow of good things to come - A shadow, , signifies,
1.Literally, the shade cast from a body of any kind, interposed between the place on which the shadow is projected, and the sun or light; the rays of the light not shining on that place, because intercepted by the opacity of the body, through which they cannot pass.
2.It signifies, technically, a sketch, rude plan, or imperfect draught of a building, landscape, man, beast, etc.
3.It signifies, metaphorically, any faint adumbration, symbolical expression, imperfect or obscure image of a thing; and is opposed to , body, or the thing intended to be thereby defined.
4.It is used catachrestically among the Greek writers, as umbra is among the Latins, to signify any thing vain, empty, light, not solid; thus Philostratus, Vit. Soph., lib. i. cap. 20: ̔ ̔ ̔ · All pleasures are but Shadows and dreams. And Cicero, in Pison., cap. 24: Omnes umbras falsae gloriae consectari . "All pursue the Shadows of False Glory." And again, De Offic., lib. iii. cap. 17: Nos veri juris germanaeque justitiae solidam et expressam effigiem nullam tenemus; umbra et itnaginibus utimur . "We have no solid and express effigy of true law and genuine justice, but we employ shadows and images to represent them."
And not the very image - , image, signifies,
1.A simple representation, from , I am like.
2.The form or particular fashion of a thing.
3.The model according to which any thing is formed.
4.The perfect image of a thing as opposed to a faint representation.
5.Metaphorically, a similitude, agreement, or conformity.
The law, with all its ceremonies and sacrifices, was only a shadow of spiritual and eternal good. The Gospel is the image or thing itself, as including every spiritual and eternal good.
We may note three things here:
1.The shadow or general outline, limiting the size and proportions of the thing to be represented.
2.The image or likeness completed from this shadow or general outline, whether represented on paper, canvass, or in statuary,
3.The person or thing thus represented in its actual, natural state of existence; or what is called here the very image of the things, .
Such is the Gospel, when compared with the law; such is Christ, when compared with Aaron; such is his sacrifice, when compared with the Levitical offerings; such is the Gospel remission of sins and purification, when compared with those afforded by the law; such is the Holy Ghost, ministered by the Gospel, when compared with its types and shadows in the Levitical service; such the heavenly rest, when compared with the earthly Canaan. Well, therefore, might the apostle say, The law was only the shadow of good things to come.
Can never - make the comers thereunto perfect - Cannot remove guilt from the conscience, or impurity from the heart. I leave preachers to improve these points.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Hebrews 10:1:
Matthew 3:15
Matthew 17:5
John 1:17
John 1:17
John 1:17
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