responds, not with meats; but the modal expression, good) is added from the feeling of the apostle, to give a point to the ad monition. So Paul, Kom. vi. 17, note. KaXix, good, beautiful (becoming), salutary: also pleasant, without strange variety; and profitable. The antithesis, have not profited. — x,dpin, with grace) grace, which becomes ours through Christ, who offered His body. — (3z(3aiouffQat) to be established. Sr^/^^i/a/, to be sup ported, is a kindred word, just as the heart, according to the He brew phraseology, is supported by bread or the staff of bread ; Judg. xix. 5 ; Is. iii. 1 ; Ps. civ. 15, etc. That is here denied of meats, and is claimed for grace. — ou, not) Judaism and Chris tianity do not agree. — fipuftaav, with meats) An Extenuation,1 as ch. ix. 10. Those meats are also denoted which were eaten in the holy place. The antithesis is, to eat, ver. 10. The Jews have their own meat ; and we have ours, which is most health ful to us. — ev o%, in which) Construed with irepiirarqffavreg. — ovx bjcpsXTjQqffav) comp. owupsXes, ch. vii. 18. — oi Kepiwaryiffavrsg, they who have walked) long and much.
10. "EWJHV, we have) This verse has two clauses : on the first, ver. 15 and 16 depend ; on the second, the verses that inter vene. Chiasmus. — Qvaaffrqpiov, an altar) the Cross of Christ, on which His body was sacrificed. — !g ou) of (from) which. They are partakers also of this altar who eat the sacrifice offered upon it, not on the other : comp. 1 Cor. x. 18. — payefy to eat) The meat, the flesh of Christ given for us. It is an antithesis to ceremonial meats. It is chiefly eaten in the Sacred Supper, where His body is set forth as given up for us, and His bldod shed for us, in that single sacrifice of the cross. — ovx, not) Gal. v. 2, etc. — r5j ffxyvy, the tabernacle) A parabolic Amphibology, such as we find at ch. ix. 8, note. For the taber nacle, if we consider the Protasis, expressed at ver. 11, denotes the anterior part of the sanctuary ; but if we consider the Apo- dosis, which is found at ver. 12, it implies the whole Levitical worship. There is also a point in the fact, that he says, ry GKyvTj, not sv 77i ffx-wfo u who serve the tabernacle," not in the ta bernacle. In like manner Paul, Rom. vii. 6, note.
11. rnv 'yap siffpspsrai) Lev. vi. 23 (30), And no sin-offering, whereof any of the blood tlotvzyjr,, is brought into the tabernacle
1 See App. The same as Litotes. VOL. IV. I I