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From his office and sanctuary he proceeds to clear up his service.
Neither by the blood of goats and calves; it was not about weak, typical, vanishing sacrifices, the blood of goats or young bulls, that he was concerned, as the Aaronical priests were, Lev_16:14,15, opened before, Heb_9:7; and this annually on the expiatory day, Lev_16:29,34; which could not satisfy injured justice, nor expiate sin, nor purge nor quiet the conscience of the offender, Heb_10:1-5.
But by his own blood; but with his own pure, precious, and unspotted blood, 1Pe_1:19. Not a drop or few drops must go for it; then what dropped from his body in his agony, from his head pierced by thorns, from his back when whipped, from his hands and feet when nailed on the cross, might have done; but it must be his own life-blood, the blood of the Second Adam dying by it for the first, Rom_5:8-20 Phi_2:6,8. And as it is the blood of Adam, that it may have value enough and worth, it must be the blood of him who is God too, with his own blood, Act_20:28. This price surmounts all treasures, Joh_6:51 10:11,15.
He entered in once into the holy place; with this blood of the covenant he entered, immediately upon the breathing out of his soul on the cross, (the veil of the temple being rent asunder, and room made for the great High Priest to fulfil his type), into the holy of holiest in heaven, where never angel came, nor any but himself, till his now piercing through, rending the veil, and laying it open, Heb_10:19; compare Isa_57:15; and came with it to God’s throne of justice there, and made the everlasting atonement for sin, and so turned it into a throne of grace, fulfilling his type, and as the high priest did before the sacrifice was burnt or consumed, Lev_16:1-34. For the expiation of sin was not deferred by Christ to his ascension, forty-five days after his death, but was immediately on his giving up the Ghost by him performed; and in this he fulfilled all righteousness, Mat_3:15. This is the
once that he entered heaven for expiation, satisfying the injured justice of God by sin, fulfilled the law, and then publicly appeared at God’s throne, to show all was complete, Luk_23:43,45,46 Joh 19:30. This once he did that which the high priest did annually typify, but could never accomplish for so many hundred years together, Heb_9:26,28 10:10,12,14. By which it is evident that one, and once, refers to the shedding of his blood as a sacrifice, and presenting of it to the Father, as completing propitiation work at that once for ever.
Having obtained eternal redemption for us; when he with the incense of his merit and prayer to the just and merciful Judge, even God his Father, sued for, found, obtained, and fully received eternal redemption for sinners; i.e. deliverance of their guilty persons from eternal death, full remission of all their sins, Rom_3:25,26, full reconciliation to God, 2Co_5:18,19,21, with an instating them into all spiritual good. This work is styled
eternal, because its virtue is of perpetual continuance, which freeth the duly qualified subjects {Col_1:21,23} from the guilt and punishment of all sins for ever.