Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
The Greek, has "moreover," or "now."
is a witness--of the truth which I am setting forth. The Father's witness is given Hebrews 5:10. The Son's, Hebrews 10:5. Now is added that of the Holy Spirit, called accordingly "the Spirit of grace," Hebrews 10:29. The testimony of all Three leads to the same conclusion (Hebrews 10:18).
for after that he had said before--The conclusion to the sentence is in Hebrews 10:17, "After He had said before, This is the covenant that I will make with them (with the house of Israel, Hebrews 8:10; here extended to the spiritual Israel) . . . saith the Lord; I will put (literally, 'giving,' referring to the giving of the law; not now as then, giving into the hands, but giving) My laws into their hearts ('mind,' Hebrews 8:10) and in their minds ('hearts,' Hebrews 8:10); I will inscribe (so the Greek) them (here He omits the addition quoted in Hebrews 8:10-11, I will be to them a God . . . and they shall not teach every man his neighbor . . .), and (that is, after He had said the foregoing, HE THEN ADDS) their sins . . . will I remember no more." The great object of the quotation here is to prove that, there being in the Gospel covenant, "REMISSION of sins" (Hebrews 10:17), there is no more need of a sacrifice for sins. The object of the same quotation in Hebrews 8:8-13 is to show that, there being a "NEW covenant," the old is antiquated.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Ezekiel 39:29
Daniel 9:27
Ephesians 5:2
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