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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 8:6 - 8:6
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now - not time; but “as it is.”
more excellent ministry - than any earthly ministry.
by how much - in proportion as.
mediator - coming between us and God, to carry into effect God’s covenant with us. “The messenger (angel) of the covenant.”
which - Greek, “one which” [Alford]: inasmuch as being one which.
established - Greek, “enacted as a law.” So Rom 3:27, “law of faith”; and Rom 8:2; Rom 9:31, apply “law” to the Gospel covenant. It is implied hereby, the Gospel is founded on the law, in the spirit and essence of the latter.
upon - resting upon.
better promises - enumerated Heb 8:10, Heb 8:11. The Old Testament promises were mainly of earthly, the New Testament promises, of heavenly blessings: the exact fulfillment of the earthly promises was a pledge of the fulfillment of the heavenly. “Like a physician who prescribes a certain diet to a patient, and then when the patient is beginning to recover, changes the diet, permitting what he had before forbidden; or as a teacher gives his pupil an elementary lesson at first; preparatory to leading him to a higher stage”: so Rabbi Albo in his Ikkarim. Compare Jer 7:21, Jer 7:22, which shows that God’s original design in the old covenant ritual system was, that it should be pedagogical, as a schoolmaster leading and preparing men for Christ.