Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comVincent Word Studies - Hebrews 9:5 - 9:5
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
Cherubim of glory (χερουβεὶν δόξης)
Setting forth or exhibiting the divine glory. The word signifies living creatures, and they are described as ζῶα. Hence usually with the neuter article τὰ. See Isa 6:2, Isa 6:3; Eze 1:5-10; 10:5-20, and comp. Rev 4:6-8. Nothing could be more infelicitous than the A.V. rendering of ζῶα beasts.
Shadowing the mercy-seat (κατασκιάζοντα τὸ ἱλαστήριον)
Κατασκιάζειν, N.T.o, olxx, occasionally in Class. Throwing their shadow down upon the mercy-seat. For, ἱλασρήριον, see on Rom 3:25. Used in lxx to translate כַּפֹרֶט, the place of covering sin, the throne of mercy above the ark.
Particularly (κατὰ μέρος)
In detail; his main point being the twofold division of the tabernacle. The phrase N.T.o. Note the completeness of the list of articles of furniture in the tabernacle, even to the inclusion of things which had no connection with worship; also the emphasis on the costliness of the articles - gold. The writer will say all that can be said for this transitory, shadowy tabernacle; but all that he can say about the costliness of the apparatus only emphasizes the inferior and unspiritual character of the worship. The vessels are superior to the service.