Hebrews 9:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

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The excellency of Christ's sacrifice beyond the Aaronical is argued here from its singularity; it needs no repetition, as their multiplied sacrifices did. Nor; oude, introducing it, is but inferring this excellency of Christ's sacrifice, by denying in it that weakness which was annexed to the legal ones; there was no need that he should die yearly, to fulfil the type of the often yearly sacrifices of the legal high priest, who entered with the blood of bulls and goats, strange blood to him, and not his own, into the holy of holiest in the tabernacle, and entered so every year once, to show the virtue of his sacrifice to be only signal, typical, and passing, to make room for a better, that single, individual one of Christ, in respect of sacrifice and oblation.

Hebrews 9:25

25 Nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others;