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- Hebrews
- Chapter 10
- Verse 6
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Commentary
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Gill's Exposition
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin,.... Which were the principal kinds of offerings under the law:
thou hast had no pleasure; not only in comparison of moral duties, or spiritual sacrifices,…
Barnes' Notes
In burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure - This is not quoted literally from the Psalm, but the sense is retained. The reading there is, “burnt-offering and sin-offering…
Adam Clarke
Thou hast had no pleasure - Thou couldst never be pleased with the victims under the law; thou couldst never consider them as atonements for sin; as they could never satisfy thy justice, nor make thy…
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
burnt offerings Lit., "Holocausts." The word occurs here alone in the N.T. These "whole burnt offerings" typified absolute self-dedication; but the holocaust without the self-sacrifice was valueless.
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