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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 10:15 - 10:15
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The Greek, has “moreover,” or “now.”
is a witness - of the truth which I am setting forth. The Father’s witness is given Heb 5:10. The Son’s, Heb 10:5. Now is added that of the Holy Spirit, called accordingly “the Spirit of grace,” Heb 10:29. The testimony of all Three leads to the same conclusion (Heb 10:18).
for after that he had said before - The conclusion to the sentence is in Heb 10:17, “After He had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them (with the house of Israel, Heb 8:10; here extended to the spiritual Israel) ... saith the Lord; I will put (literally, ‘giving,’ referring to the giving of the law; not now as then, giving into the hands, but giving) My laws into their hearts (‘mind,’ Heb 8:10) and in their minds (‘hearts,’ Heb 8:10); I will inscribe (so the Greek) them (here He omits the addition quoted in Heb 8:10, Heb 8:11, I will be to them a God ... and they shall not teach every man his neighbor ...), and (that is, after He had said the foregoing, HE THEN ADDS) their sins ... will I remember no more.” The great object of the quotation here is to prove that, there being in the Gospel covenant, “REMISSION of sins” (Heb 10:17), there is no more need of a sacrifice for sins. The object of the same quotation in Heb 8:8-13 is to show that, there being a “NEW covenant,” the old is antiquated.