Hebrews 10:11-18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And every priest standeth, &c. In token of humble service and subjection; daily Morning and evening; ministering and offering often the same sacrifices, which shows that these sacrifices can never take away sins Can never fully expiate them, so as to make it consistent with the justice of God to forgive them to the penitent and believing. But this man Αυτος δε, but He, the virtue of whose one sacrifice remains for ever, so that it need not be any more repeated; sat down on the right hand of God As a Son in majesty and honour, and in token of the continuance of his priesthood, and of his dignity there as Lord; from henceforth, (το λοιπον, what remains,) expecting Waiting; till his enemies be made his footstool Till his ministry as High-Priest, and government as King, shall issue according to God's promise, (Psalms 110:1,) in the utter destruction of his enemies. For by one offering Of himself; (and it appears that he did not need to offer himself more than once;) he hath perfected for ever Hath fully reconciled to God; them that are sanctified Those who in true repentance, living faith, and new obedience, give themselves up to the love and service of God. Whereof Of the perfection of whose sacrifice; the Holy Ghost also is a witness to us Namely, in the form of the new covenant recorded by him Jeremiah 31:31. This is the covenant, &c. See on chap. Hebrews 8:10. In these three verses, the apostle winds up his argument concerning the excellence and perfection of the priesthood and sacrifice of Christ. He had proved this before by a quotation from Jeremiah, which he here repeats, describing the new covenant as now completely ratified, and all the blessings of it secured to us by the one offering of Christ, which renders all other expiatory sacrifices, and any repetition of his own, utterly needless.