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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 7:19 - 7:19
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For, etc. - justifying his calling the law weak and unprofitable (Heb 7:18). The law could not bring men to: true justification or sanctification before God, which is the “perfection” that we all need in order to be accepted of Him, and which we have in Christ.
nothing - not merely “no one,” but “nothing.” The law brought nothing to its perfected end; everything in it was introductory to its antitype in the Christian economy, which realizes the perfection contemplated; compare “unprofitableness,” Heb 7:18.
did - rather connect with Heb 7:18, thus, “There takes place (by virtue of Psa 110:4) a repealing of the commandment (on the one hand), but (on the other) a bringing in afterwards (the Greek expresses that there is a bringing in of something over and above the law; a superinducing, or accession of something new, namely, something better than the good things which the pre-existing law promised [Wahl]) of a better hope,” not one weak and unprofitable, but, as elsewhere the Christian dispensation is called, “everlasting,” “true,” “the second,” “more excellent,” “different,” “living,” “new,” “to come,” “perfect.” Compare Heb 8:6, bringing us near to God, now in spirit, hereafter both in spirit and in body.
we draw nigh unto God - the sure token of “perfection.” Weakness is the opposite of this filial confidence of access. The access through the legal sacrifices was only symbolical and through the medium of a priest; that through Christ is immediate, perfect, and spiritual.