Scofield Reference Bible Notes
Hebrews 10

Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.

perfect

Scofield Matthew 5:48, note.

Heb 10:2 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should have had no more conscience of sins.

sins [See also Heb 10:3-4, 6, 8, 11, 17-18, 26.]

Sin. Scofield Romans 3:23, note.

Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:

world

kosmos (Mat 4:8) = mankind.

Sacrifice and offering

Heb 10:5, 7; Psa 40:6-8.

body hast thou prepared me

Cf. Psa 40:6; the rule, applicable to all modifications of the modifications of the form of quotations in the N.T. from O.T. writings, is that the divine Author of both Testaments is perfectly free, in using an earlier statement, to recast the mere literary form of it. The variant form will be found invariably to give the deeper meaning of the earlier statement.

Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.

to do thy will, O God

Psa 40:8.

Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

we are sanctified

Heb 10:14.

the offering of the body of Jesus Christ [See also Heb 10:12.]

Sacrifice (of Christ). (Gen 4:4.)

Heb 10:12 But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;

for ever, sat down

sat down in perpetuity.

on the right hand of God

Heb 10:12-13; Psa 110:1.

Heb 10:14 For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

perfected

Scofield Matthew 5:48, note.

them that are sanctified

Heb 10:10.

Heb 10:15 Whereof the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us: for after that he had said before,

Holy Ghost

Holy Spirit (N.T.). Heb 10:15, 29; Jas 4:5. (Mat 1:18; Act 2:4.)

Heb 10:16 This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;

Lord

Jehovah, Heb 10:16-17; Jer 31:33-34.

Heb 10:18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

offering

Sacrifice, Summary:

1. The first intimation of sacrifice is Gen 3:21, the "coats of skins" having obviously come from slain animals. The first clear instance of sacrifice is Gen 4:4, explained in Heb 11:4. Abel's righteousness was the result of his sacrifice, not of his character.
2. Before the giving of the law the head of the family was the family priest. By the law an order of priests was established who alone could offer sacrifices. Those sacrifices were "shadows," types, expressing variously the guilt and need of the offerer in reference to God, and all pointing to Christ and fulfilled in Him.
3. As foreshadowed by the types and explained by the N.T., the sacrifice of Christ is
   • penal (Gal 3:13; 2Co 5:21);
   • substitutional (Lev 1:4; Isa 53:5-6; 2Co 5:21; 1Pe 2:24);
   • voluntary (Gen 22:9; Jhn 10:18);
   • redemptive (Gal 3:13; Eph 1:7; 1Co 6:20);
   • propitiatory (Rom 3:25);
   • reconciling (2Co 5:18-19; Col 1:21-22);
   • efficacious (Jhn 12:32-33; Rom 5:9-10; 2Co 5:21; Eph 2:13; Heb 9:11-12, 26; 10:10-17; 1Jo 1:7; Rev 1:5); and
   • revelatory (Jhn 3:16; 1Jo 4:9-10).

Heb 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus,

enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus

Heb 9:8, 12.

Heb 10:20 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh;

living way

Jhn 14:6; Heb 7:24.

consecrated

dedicated.

Heb 10:22 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water.

assurance

Assurance. Heb 10:16-18, 22; 1Pe 3:18. (Isa 32:17; Jde 1:1.)

faith

Faith. Heb 10:22, 38; 12:2. (Gen 3:20; Heb 11:39.)

Heb 10:23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)

profession of our faith

confession of the hope.

he is faithful

1Th 5:24.

Heb 10:25 Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Not forsaking the assembling

Mat 10:32.

exhorting

encouraging.

as ye see the day approaching

Mat 24.

Heb 10:26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

if we sin wilfully

Isa 55:1, 7.

Heb 10:28 He that despised Moses' law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:

Moses' law

Law (of Moses). Jas 2:10. (Exo 19:1; Gal 3:1-29).

Heb 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?

shall he be thought worthy

Heb 2:3.

trodden under foot the Son of God

Apostasy. 2Pe 2:1-3. (Luk 18:8; 2Ti 3:1.)

sanctified

Sanctify, holy (persons) (N.T.). Heb 10:10, 14, 29; 13:12. (Mat 4:5; Rev 22:11.)

an unholy thing

Greek a common thing.

Spirit of grace

Grace (in salvation). 1Pe 1:10, 13. (Rom 3:24; Scofield John 1:16, note.)

Heb 10:30 For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.

Lord

Jehovah. Deu 32:35-36.

Heb 10:34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.

in yourselves that ye have

that ye have for yourselves.

in heaven a better and an enduring substance

Luk 12:33.

Heb 10:36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

ye have need of patience

Luk 21:19.

Heb 10:37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.

he that shall come will come

Christ (Second Advent). 2Pe 3:3-4. (Deu 30:3; Acts 1:9-11.)

Heb 10:38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

the just shall live by faith

Hab 2:3-4.