For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
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Gill's Exposition
For the law having a shadow of good things to come,.... By which is meant not the moral law, for that is not a shadow of future blessings, but a system of precepts; the things it commands are not…
Barnes' Notes
For the law having a shadow - That is, the whole of the Mosaic economy was a shadow; for so the word “Law” is often used. The word “shadow” here refers to a rough outline of anything, a mere sketch,…
Adam Clarke
The law, having a shadow of good things to come - A shadow, σκια, signifies,
1. Literally, the shade cast from a body of any kind, interposed between the place on which the shadow is projected, and…
Here the apostle, by the direction of the Spirit of God, sets himself to lay low the Levitical dispensation; for though it was of divine appointment, and very excellent and useful in its time and…
Cambridge Bible
The one Sacrifice and the many Sacrifices
1. of good things to come Of thegood things which Christ had now brought into the world (Heb 9:11).
not the very image of the things "The Law," says St…
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