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17 then He adds, a“Their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”  
18 Now where there is1 remission of these, there is no longer an offering for sin.  

Hold Fast Your Confession

19 Therefore, brethren, having aboldness to enter bthe Holiest by the blood of Jesus,  
20 by a new and aliving way which He consecrated for us, through the veil, that is, His flesh,  
21 and having a High Priest over the house of God,
22 let us adraw near with a true heart bin full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.  
23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for aHe who promised is faithful.  
24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works,
25 anot forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and bso much the more as you see cthe Day approaching.  

The Just Live by Faith

26 For aif we sin willfully bafter we have received the knowledge of the truth, there cno longer remains a sacrifice for sins,  
27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and afiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.  
28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three awitnesses.  
29 aOf how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, bcounted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, cand insulted the Spirit of grace?  
30 For we know Him who said, a“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,”1 says the Lord. And again, b“The Lord will judge His people.”  
31 aIt is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.  
32 But arecall the former days in which, after you were1 illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:  
33 partly while you were made aa spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while byou became companions of those who were so treated;  
34 for you had compassion on1 me ain my chains, and bjoyfully accepted the plundering of your2 goods, knowing that cyou have a better and an enduring possession for yourselves3 in heaven.  
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Hebrews 10:19

Having therefore, brethren - The apostle, in this verse, enters on the hortatory part of his Epistle, which continues to the end of it. He had gone into an extensive examination of the Jewish and Christian systems; he had compared the Founders of the two - Moses and the Son of God, and shown how far superior the latter was to the former; he had compared the Christian Great High Priest with the Jewish high priest, and shown his superiority; he had compared the sacrifices under the two dispensations, and showed that in all respects the Christian sacrifice was superior to the Jewish - that it was an offering that cleansed from sin; that it was sufficient when once offered without being repeated, while the Jewish offerings were only typical, and were unable to put away sin; and he had shown that the great High Priest of the Christian profession had opened a way to the mercy-seat in heaven, and was himself now seated there; and having shown this, he now exhorts Christians to avail themselves fully of all their advantages, and to enjoy to the widest extent all the privileges now conferred on them. One of the first of these benefits was, that they had now free access to the mercy-seat.

Boldness to enter into the holiest - Margin, "liberty." The word rendered "boldness" - ̓̔́ parrēsian - properly means "boldness of speech," or freedom where one speaks all that he thinks (notes, Acts 4:13); and then it means boldness in general, license, authority, pardon. Here the idea is, that before Christ died and entered into heaven, there was no such access to the throne of grace as man needed. Man had no offering which he could bring that would make him acceptable to God. But now the way was open. Access was free for all, and all might come with the utmost freedom. The word "holiest" here is taken from the holy of holies in the temple (notes on Hebrews 9:3), and is there applied to heaven, of which that was the emblem. The entrance into the most holy place was forbidden to all but the high priest; but now access to the real "holy of holies" was granted to all in the name of the great High Priest of the Christian profession.

By the blood of Jesus - The blood of Jesus is the means by which this access to heaven is procured. The Jewish high priest entered the holy of holies with the blood of bullocks and of rams (notes, Hebrews 9:7); but the Saviour offered his own blood, and that became the means by which we may have access to God.




Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Hebrews 10:19:

John 14:2-3
Hebrews 9:8
Hebrews 10:39
1 Peter 2:5

 

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