For the law made nothing perfect, but the bringing in of a better hope did; by the which we draw nigh unto God.
For ... - Justifying his calling the law weak and unprofitable (Hebrews 7:18). The law would not bring men to justification or sanctification before God, which is the 'perfection' that we need in order to be accepted of Him, and which we have in Christ.
Nothing - not merely 'no one,' but "nothing." The law brought nothing to its perfected end: everything in it was introductory to its Christian antitype, which realizes the perfection contemplated. Compare "unprofitableness," Hebrews 7:19.
Did - rather [as the correspondence of men (G3303) and de (G1161) requires], connect with Hebrews 7:18, 'There takes place (by virtue of Psalms 110:4) a repealing of the commandment on the one hand ( men (G3303)), but х de (G1161): on the other] a bringing in afterward [epeisagogee expresses a bringing in of something over and above the law: a superinducing of something new, and better than the good things of the pre-existing law (Wahl)] of a better hope;' not one weak and unprofitable, but (as the Christian dispensation is called) "everlasting," "true," "the second," "more excellent," "different," "living," "new," "to come," "perfect." Compare Hebrews 8:6: bringing us near to God, now in spirit; hereafter, both in spirit and in body. (For the law made nothing perfect) is a parenthesis.
We draw nigh unto God - the token of 'perfection.' Weakness is the opposite of this filial confidence of access. The access through the legal sacrifices was only symbolical and through a priest; that through Christ is immediate, perfect, and spiritual.