The Pulpit Commentary — Hebrews — Section 239

but ie used for the holy of holies in vers. 24, 88 marking the new covenant (see below, 25, Bnd for its heavenly u.ntitype in ver. 13. vers. 13, 14). This IBst,u.s typified in the earthly eanctuBry, Ver: 10.-Rendered in A.V.," Which fflood is wliBt is intended here) hBth not yet only m (µ&vov l,rl) meats and drinks and been made mu.nifeet, while BB the flret tBber- divers washings, u.nd carnal ordino.nces [ Ka.l naolo is yet stBnding (or ru.ther, has standing li11,a.u{,µau, uap1tbs, Textue Receptue], im- (lxo6u11s O'T40'iv); la11s a place in the sym- posed on them U1r11teiµ,va.) nntil the time of bolical represent1ttion). The " first tu.ber- reformation." This is a satisfactory render- naole" here spoken of certBinly does not ing of the Textus Receptua, l1rl before meBn the earthly one BS opposed to the· "meats," etc., being taken in the aen,e of heu.venly, but what the expression denotes dependence, e.nd l1r,,celµeva. nPccssarily as throughout the chapter, the holy place in agreeing with "gifts e.nd au.orifices" (or.pc! distinction from the holy of holies. How, TE Kal 8uula,) in ver. 9. But there are olher then, is the continued existence of this a readings, though none, e.ny more than that sign thu.t the WBY to the heavenly holy of of the 'fextus Receptue, to be decidedly pre- holies hu.s not yet been mu.de manifest? ferred on the mere ground of manuscript Obviously because it intervenes between authority. The best senae seema to be the congregation e.nd the holy of holies of given by that of liucauf,µa.Ta instead of Ka.l the earthly ta.berne.cle, debarring e.11 approach li,,ca,wµau,, so the.t we may render (hl being to the latter, Bnd even hiding it from their to.ken in the sense of addition), Being only view. This debu.rring intervention signifies (with meats e.nd drinks and divers washings) that there is no approach for them as yet to carnal ordinances, imposed until the time of whu.t the holy of holies symbolizes. Further, reformation. We thus have au obvious the ordinary ministry of the priests them- neuter plural (li11ta,wµa.Ta) for l1r,1tel.u•va. to eel ves did not extend beyond this " first agree with, u.nd we a.void the u.asr·rtion that tBbernu.cle:" this a.lone was the sphere of the "gifts e.nd sacrifices" of the Law the services which they u.ccomplished daily; " stood only " in "meats," etc. Th is was e.nd so the very fact of its existing for this not so; their essential po.rt was blood-shed- purpose expressed that even their mediation ding ( a/µa-reKx6u,a, ver. 22) ; the other was not availing for o.ccess to the inner things here mentioned were but accom- mercy-seat. And that this was so is inti- paniments and appendages. The "me11.ts mated with peculiu.r significance by the e.nd drinks" spoken of me.y refer ma.inly to direction that, when the high priest alone the distinctions between clean and unclean entered within the veil, none even of them viands, which we know were made such a should be in the holy place at u.11, so as to point of by the Jews of the u.postolic age see beyoud it : "And there shu.11 be no mu.n (cf. Col. ii. 16-23; Rom. xiv.; 1 Cor. viii.; in the tabemu.cle of the congregBtion when e.lso Me.rk vii. 15). The" divers washings" he goeth in to mBke Bn Btoaement in the (f3a.,r-r,uµo<S) may be to.ken to include both holy place" (Lev. xvi. 17). the ablutions of the priests before sacrifice, Ver. 9.-Whioh (l1T1s, with its usuBI force) e.nd those enjoined on the people in many is B pe.re.ble for the time present ( i.e. present parts of the Le.w after ceremonial defile- ee regu.rded from the standpoint of the old ment, which kind of washings had been dispensation. The A.V., translating "then further multiplied variously in the tradi- present," and using past tenses throughout, tioual law (cf. Mark vii. 3, 4, 8). though depu.rting from literalism, still gives, Vera. 11, 12.-But Christ hBving oome we conceive, the idea correctly); according to (,rapa.-y,v&µ,vos, cf. Matt. iii. I; Luke xii. 51) which (referring to " parable," if we o.dopt a High Priest (or, as High Prieit) of the the best-supported reading, 1<a8' ,\v. The good things to oome, through the gree.ter Textus Receptus, followed by the A.V., has e.nd more perfect taberne.ole, not made with ,ca8' II v, referring to " the time ") e.re offered hands, the.t is to se.y, not of this creation both gifts e.nd so.orifices (cf. ver. 1), whioh (KTlu,ws), nor yet through the blood of cannot, e.s pertBining to the conscience, goats and oalves, but through his own blood, me.ke him thBt doth the servioe (or, "the entered in once for all ( i<1>cim,O into the holy worshipper," the idea not being confined to place, he.ving obtained ( ,vpciµevos, not neces- the officiu.ting priest; cf. eh. x. 2, where Tous sarily antecedent to eiu:;,AO,v) eternal re- l\o.Tp•6ov-rru is translated" the worshippers") demption. On the futurity expres8ed (here perfect. The emphatio expression here is and oh. x. 1) by "the good thiugs to come" ,co.Te uuv.lli11u,v. The gifts and sacrifices of (the reacling µ,7'.l\ov-rwv being preferred to tne Le.w e.ve.iled in themselves only for -y,voµ..vwv), see under eh. i.} (br' lux<iTou external ceremonial purification; they did 'l'WV '1,µ,pii,v Tovrwv) and eh. ll. 5 (Ti,v Oll<OU• not reach, however typical, the sphere of µ.<v1Jv T./iv µ,Mouua.v). Here, certainly, the mun's inner consciousness; they could not period of the e11rthly tabernacle having been bring about that sense of spiritual accord the temporal standpoint i.u. all the prececling with God which i8 spoken ol' in Jer. xxxi. vemes, futurity with reg..rd to it may,  230 THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. (oH. IX, 1-28,