Hebrew Chapter10 - Observation

The version used is ESV

Titles for God

  • Father - God:7,12,21,31,36; Yah:16,30; Living God:31
  • Son - Christ:5,12; Jesus Christ: 10; Jesus:19; Son of God: 29; 21: great priest
  • Holy Spirit - 15; Spirit of Grace:29

Actions of Yah

  • 6: take no pleasure in burnt offerings and sin offerings
  • 7: implicit writing in the scroll of the book about Jesus
  • 16: declares, makes a covenant, put laws in the hearts and write in the minds
  • 17: not remember sins and transgressions
  • 23: promised the covenant
  • 30: will judge His people

Actions of Jesus

  • 5: came into the world, spoke to God
  • 7: to do God's will
  • 9: come to do God's will, does away with first to establish the second
  • 10: implicit Jesus sacrificed that sanctified us
  • 12: offered for all time a single sacrifice; sat down at right hand of God
  • 13: waiting for that time until his enemies will be made a footstool
  • 14: perfected for all time through a single offering
  • 20: Jesus opened the curtain through His flesh
  • 21: Jesus is the great priest over the house of God
  • 23: He promised

Actions of Holy Spirit

  • 15: bears witness to the writings of Yah thru the Prophet Jeremiah

Commands, Actions of man

  • 1-2: worshippers offered sacrifices for sins
  • 11: priest offer daily sacrifices
  • 19: command: have confidence to enter the holy places by blood of Jesus
  • 22: command: draw near with a true heart, in full assurance of faith, hearts clean from evil conscience, our bodies washed with pure water
  • 23: command: hold fast the confession of our hope, not waver for Jesus and God are faithful
  • 24: command: consider how to stir up one another to love and good works
  • 25: command: dont neglect to meet together, encourage one another, await the Day
  • 26: dont go on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth
  • 28: any one who sins dies without mercy if there are 2 or more witnesses
  • 29: command/warning: dont trample the Son of God and profane the blood of the covenant
  • 30: command: we will be judged
  • 31: command: fear falling into the hands of the Living God
  • 32: remember former days; command: endure hard struggle with sufferings;
  • 33: exposed to reproach and affictions
  • 34: command: have compassion on those in prison, accept joyfully the plundering of property, know we have a better possession
  • 35: command: dont throw away confidence
  • 36: command: endure and do the will of God, so that we receive the promise
  • 38: command: righteous shall live by faith and dont shrink back
  • 39: command: have faith and preserve our life

Repeating words

Wordcloud of the KJV text

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and using ESV text

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Here is the Greek Textus Receptus, without any stop words.

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Keywords

Outside of God, Jesus, Holy Spirit

  • sacrifices
  • sin(s)/sinning
  • clean/cleansed
  • offering(s)
  • will (of God)
  • (no) pleasure
  • law
  • sanctified
  • right hand
  • perfected
  • confidence
  • assurance
  • encourage
  • the Day
  • judge/judgement
  • affliction/suffer/struggle
  • compassion
  • joy
  • endurance
  • shrink back
  • faith
  • preserve

Figures of Speech

Again most of the metaphors are also physical and spiritual in addition to the metaphysical.

  • 10 shadow of good things
  • 13 footstool
  • 16 put laws into hearts and write in minds
  • 20 thru the curtain
  • 22 sprinkled clean, pure water
  • 25 the Day
  • 27 fury of fire
  • 28 set aside the law
  • 29 trample under foot, profane the blood
  • 35 throw away confidence

Conditionals, Means, Cause & effect

  • 1: because its a shadow, the law can never make perfect (teleio) those who draw near
  • 1-2: if the law was perfect/complete and once offered -> the worshipper would be cleansed and no longer have any conscieness of sins
  • 3: because law is not perfect/complete -> it needs to be offered every year -> reminder of sins
  • 3-4: blood of bulls and goats cant take away sins -> needs to be offered every year to cleanse the consciousness of sins
  • 7: it was written of Jesus in the scroll of the book -> He came to do Gods will
  • 10: we are sanctified by means of the offering Jesus did once for all
  • 11: people sin daily -> priest stands daily to offer the same sacrifices daily
  • 12: Christ offered the single sacrifice for sins -> sat at right hand of God and his enemies will made a footstool
  • 14: we are being sanctified for all time by the single offering
  • 16-17: because God will put His laws on our hearts and write in our minds, he will not remember the sins and lawless deeds
  • 17-18: because there is forgiveness there is no longer any offering for sin
  • 19-20: Jesus opened the curtain through His flesh -> we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus
  • 21-22: because we have a great priest over house of God in Jesus, we can draw near to the holy places with full assurance and conscience (repentence and confessions) and body cleansed (baptism)
  • 23: Because He who promised is faithful we can hold fast to our hope without wavering
  • 24-25: as we see the Day drawing near -> we meet together, encourage eachother
  • 26: after receiving the knowledge of truth if we sin -> there is no longer remain a sacrifice for those sins
  • 27: if we sin after receiving knowledge of truth -> we can expect the judgement reserved for adversaries
  • 28: set aside law of Moses + 2-3 witnesses -> death without mercy
  • 29: trample underfoot Son of God -> worse punishment
  • 29: profaned the blood of the covenant -> outraged the Spirit of grace
  • 30-31: Yah's writings on vengeance is mine and Yah will judge His people -> fear falling into the hands of living God
  • 32: you were enlightened which helped you endure a hard struggle
  • 33: sufferings were by means of publicly exposed to reproach and affliction and partners to those so treated
  • 34: you knew you had a better possession and an abiding one -> you had compassion and joyfully accepted plundering of your property
  • 33-35: because you have a better possession and were enlightened and have endured suffering, do not throw away our confidence -> great reward
  • 36: need endurance to do the will of God -> you may receive the reward
  • 37-38: He will not tarry and come -> live by faith; but anyone draws back -> no pleasure in him
  • 39: shrink back -> be destroyed; have faith -> preserve life

Compare/Contrasts

  • the old and the renewed covenant
  • sacrifices offered every day contrasted with sacrifice of Jesus
  • blood of bulls and goats contratsed with blood of Jesus
  • first compared with second
  • living in faith contrasted with sinning deliberately
  • setting aside the law of Moses vs trampling Son of God under foot
  • former days compared with current day
  • 38: righteous live by faith contrasted with one who shrinks back
  • 39: shrink back and be destroyed or have faith and preserve life