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Scott's Reference Library
December 21, 2003 | December 24, 2006 | December 20, 2009
Hebrews 10:5 through Hebrews 10:10 (NIV)
5Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:
“Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
but a body you prepared for me;
6 with burnt offerings and sin offerings
you were not pleased.
7 Then I said, ‘Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—
I have come to do your will, O God.’ “
8First he said, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you
did not desire, nor were you pleased with them” (although the law required them
to be made). 9Then he said, “Here I am, I have come to do your will.” He sets
aside the first to establish the second. 10And by that will, we have been made
holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary on the Whole Bible
VERSES 1-10
The apostle having shown that the tabernacle, and ordinances of the covenant of
Sinai, were only emblems and types of the gospel, concludes that the sacrifices
the high priests offered continually, could not make the worshippers perfect,
with respect to pardon, and the purifying of their consciences. But when “God
manifested in the flesh,” became the sacrifice, and his death upon the accursed
tree the ransom, then the Sufferer being of infinite worth, his free-will
sufferings were of infinite value. The atoning sacrifice must be one capable of
consenting, and must of his own will place himself in the sinner’s stead: Christ
did so. The fountain of all that Christ has done for his people, is the
sovereign will and grace of God. The righteousness brought in, and the sacrifice
once offered by Christ, are of eternal power, and his salvation shall never be
done away. They are of power to make all the comers thereunto perfect; they
derive from the atoning blood, strength and motives for obedience, and inward
comfort.