How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Ver. 14. By the eternal Spirit] That is, by his Deity, called the Spirit of holiness,Romans 1:4, and the Spirit, 1 Timothy 3:16, that gave both value and virtue to his death, both to satisfy and to sanctify.
Purge your conscience] This is that eternal redemption, Hebrews 9:12 .
From dead works] The most specious performances of unregenerate persons are but dead works, because they proceed not from a principle of life, and have death for their wages,Romans 6:23. A will written with a dead man's hand can hold no law. God will be served like himself.