Chapter 8

Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;

sum

Or, chief, principal point, in both which senses is used by profane writers.

We have

7.26-28

who

1.3,13 10.12 12.2 Ephesians 6.20 Colossians 3.1 Revelation 3.21

the Majesty

1 Chronicles 29.11 Job 37.22 Psalms 21.5 45.3,4 104.1 145.12 Isaiah 24.14 Micah 5.4

A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man.

minister

9.8-12 10.21 Exodus 28.1,35 Luke 24.44 Romans 15.8

the sanctuary

or, holy things. the true.

9.11,23,24

which

11.10 2 Corinthians 5.1 Colossians 2.11

For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer.

serve

5.1 7.27

have

9.14 10.9-12 John 6.51 Ephesians 5.2 Titus 2.14

For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law:

he should

7.11-15 Numbers 16.40 17.12,13 18.5 2 Chronicles 26.18,19

there are priests

or, they are priests. gifts. [doron (dw‹ron)] gifts, or offerings, comprehended propitiatory sacrifices as well as freewill-offerings.

See

11.4

Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.

unto

[ ()skia

the example

9.9,23,24 10.1 Colossians 2.17

See

Exodus 25.40 26.30 27.8 Numbers 8.4 1 Chronicles 28.12,19 Acts 7.44

pattern

[tupos (tu/pov)] type, plan, or form.

But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises.

obtained

7-13 2 Corinthians 3.6-11

the mediator

7.22 12.24 Galatians 3.19,20

covenant

or, testament.

7.22 9.15-20

was established

[nomotheteo (nomoqete—omai)] "was ordained (or established) by law."

upon

8.10-12 Romans 9.4 Galatians 3.16-21 Titus 1.2 2 Peter 1.4

For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second.

had

6 7.11,18 Galatians 3.21

For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah:

he saith

Jeremiah 31.31-34

the days

10.16,17 Jeremiah 23.5,7 30.3 31.27,31-34,38 Luke 17.22

a new

9.15 12.24 Matthew 26.28 Mark 14.24 Luke 22.20 1 Corinthians 11.25 2 Corinthians 3.6

covenant

Isaiah 55.3 Jeremiah 32.40 33.24-26 Ezekiel 16.60,61 37.26

Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord.

the covenant

9.18-20 Exodus 24.3-11 34.10,27,28 Deuteronomy 5.2,3 29.1,12 Galatians 3.15-19 Galatians 4.24

I took

Genesis 19.16 Job 8.20 *marg:; Song of Solomon 8.5 Isaiah 41.13 51.18 Mark 8.23 Acts 9.8 13.11

to lead

Exodus 19.4,5 Psalms 77.20 78.52-54 105.43 136.11-14 Isaiah 40.11 63.9 Isaiah 63.11-13

they continued

Exodus 32.8 Deuteronomy 29.25 31.16-18 Joshua 23.15,16 2 Kings 17.15-18 Psalms 78.10 Psalms 78.11,57 Isaiah 24.5,6 Jeremiah 11.7,8 22.8,9 31.32 Ezekiel 16.8,59 Ezekiel 20.37,38

regarded

Judges 10.13,14 Lamentations 4.16 Amos 5.22 Malachi 2.13

For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

this is

10.16,17

I will put

Gr. I will give.

Exodus 24.4,7 34.1,27 Deuteronomy 30.6 Jeremiah 31.33 32.40 Ezekiel 11.19 36.26,27 2 Corinthians 3.3,7,8 James 1.18,21 1 Peter 1.23

in

or, upon. I will be.

11.16 Genesis 17.7,8 Song of Solomon 2.16 Jeremiah 24.7 31.1,33 32.38 Ezekiel 11.20 36.28 Ezekiel 37.27 39.22 Hosea 1.10 2.23 Zechariah 8.8 13.9 Matthew 22.32 1 Corinthians 6.16

they shall

Exodus 19.5,6 Romans 9.25,26 Titus 2.14 1 Peter 2.9

And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest.

they shall

Isaiah 2.3 54.13 Jeremiah 31.34 John 6.45 1 John 2.27

Know the

2 Kings 17.27,28 1 Chronicles 28.9 2 Chronicles 30.22 Ezra 7.25

for all

Isaiah 54.13 Jeremiah 24.7 Ezekiel 34.30 Habakkuk 2.14 1 John 5.20

from

Jeremiah 6.13 42.1,8 44.12 Acts 8.10

For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.

10.16,17 Psalms 25.7 65.3 Isaiah 43.25 44.22 Jeremiah 33.8 50.20 Micah 7.19 Acts 13.38,39 Romans 11.27 Ephesians 1.7 Colossians 1.14 1 John 1.7-9 2.1,2 Revelation 1.5

In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

A new

he hath

7.11,12,18,19 9.9,10

ready

Isaiah 51.6 Matthew 24.35 1 Corinthians 13.8 2 Corinthians 5.17