Hebrews 10:5 - Scofield Reference Notes

Bible Comments

body

Compare (Psalms 40:6).

The rule, applicable to all modifications of the modifications of the form of quotations in the New Testament from the Old Testament 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.

Hebrews 10:5

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