Talált 20764 Eredmények: Or
above were the Cherubim, heralds of the divine glory, spreading their wings over the throne of mercy. We have no time to treat of these more particularly,✻ (Hebrews 9, 5)
but this was the general fashion of it. Into the outer tabernacle the priests made their way at all times, in the performance of their duties; (Hebrews 9, 6)
into this other, only the high priest, once a year, and even then not without an offering of blood, for the faults which he and the people had committed unknowingly. (Hebrews 9, 7)
The Holy Spirit meant us to see that no way of access to the true sanctuary lay open to us, as long as the former tabernacle maintained its standing. (Hebrews 9, 8)
And that allegory still holds good at the present day; here are gifts and sacrifices being offered, which have no power, where conscience is concerned, to bring the worshipper to his full growth; they are but outward observances, connected with food and drink (Hebrews 9, 9)
and ceremonial washings on this occasion or that, instituted to hold their own until better times should come. (Hebrews 9, 10)
Meanwhile, Christ has taken his place as our high priest, to win us blessings that still lie in the future. He makes use of a greater, a more complete tabernacle, which human hands never fashioned; it does not belong to this order of creation at all.✻ (Hebrews 9, 11)
It is his own blood, not the blood of goats and calves, that has enabled him to enter, once for all, into the sanctuary; the ransom he has won lasts for ever. (Hebrews 9, 12)
The blood of bulls and goats, the ashes of a heifer sprinkled over men defiled, have power to hallow them for every purpose of outward purification; (Hebrews 9, 13)
Thus, through his intervention, a new covenant has been bequeathed to us; a death must follow, to atone for all our transgressions under the old covenant, and then the destined heirs were to obtain, for ever, their promised inheritance. (Hebrews 9, 15)
Where a bequest is concerned, the death of the testator must needs play its part; (Hebrews 9, 16)
a will has no force while the testator is alive, and only comes into force with death.✻ (Hebrews 9, 17)
