19. For, c.—justifying his calling the law weak and unprofitable ( :- ). The law could not bring men to: true justification or sanctification before God, which is the "perfection" that we all 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 antitype in the Christian economy, which realizes the perfection contemplated; compare "unprofitableness," :- . did —rather connect with Hebrews 7:18 , thus, "There takes place (by virtue of Hebrews 7:18- : ) a repealing of the commandment (on the one hand), but (on the other) a bringing in afterwards (the Greek expresses that there is a bringing in of something over and above the law; a superinducing, or accession of something new, namely, something better than the good things which the pre-existing law promised [WAHL]) of a better hope," not one weak and unprofitable, but, as elsewhere the Christian dispensation is called, "everlasting," "true," "the second," "more excellent," "different," "living," "new," "to come," "perfect." Compare Hebrews 7:18- : , bringing us near to God, now in spirit, hereafter both in spirit and in body. we draw nigh unto God —the sure token of "perfection." Weakness is the opposite of this filial confidence of access. The access through the legal sacrifices was only symbolical and through the medium of a priest; that through Christ is immediate, perfect, and spiritual. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-20" class="com-number"
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