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The other passages , which I intend to cite from the Epistle to the Hebrews , shall be set down all together , without any intermediate notes , thus—Hebfews vii . 27 . " Sacrifice once 5 when he offered up himself /' * ix . . 11 . ** Greater and more perfect tabernacle / 5 —* 12 . " En . tered once into the holy place . "—? 24 . u Into heaven itself , to appear in the presence of God for us . " —26 . Once appeared ,, &c . " —28 4 ' Christ was once offered /'
—x . 10 . u The offering of the body of Jesus once . "—12 . Offered ohe sacrifice for sin . "—14 . " By one offering he perfected , &c /*—* 19 . u Into the holiest ( place ) by the blood of Jesus . **
The expressions in Hebrews ix , 11 , 12 and 24 , and in chap . x . 19 , evidently mark the place where Jesus Christ is said to have made this oblation * offering or sarnade this oblationoffering or
sa-, crifice of himself , namely , " in the greater and more perfect ta ~ bernacle "—r Ci in the holy or holiest ' ' ( place )—and " in Heaven
itself , or " the presence of God : " all which expressions , according to the genius and analogies which evidently pervade the whole Epistle to the Hebrews , do most probably denote , ( like the forementioned phrase , within the vail'' ) the Christian church or
community , which our Lord Christ originally formed , and into which he entered and ministered in it as its founder and head or chief , ' and the primitive revealer and teacher of the Christian religion—as the
Jew'sli high priest formerly entered jnto " the Holy of Holies " , that ls the most holy apartment of the Jewish temple , to preside over and ^ rect the most solemn and impor-( a &t riles and parts of the Jewish
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On Passages in the Epistle to the Hebrews . 483
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worship . Those persons who live in the strictest conformity and obedience to the instructions and example of Jesus Christ , are said * ' to be in Heaven / ' or u to have their conversation in Heaven /' even while they live on earth ; and , according tQ the common apprehension and language of Christians , those persons , who engage in the most solemn acts of religion , and especially the ministers of its holy rites , are generally said and allowed to enter into the
peculiar and more immediate presence of Almighty God . There is , no doubt , something Judaical in these ideas and expressions ; but , on this account , they appear to be the better adapted to illustrate the true meaning of Hebrews the
ix . 24 . On these ideas and grounds then , why may it not be admitted that the fore-cited terms and phrases signify nothing else ahan our Lord Christ ' s voluntary acceptance of , and personal entrance
into the mediatorial office , and his faithful performance of all its duties—appearing as the appointed prophet and messenger of God to reveal , explain and inculcate the dictates of divine and
heavenly truth , —to collect and form the Christian church—to prescribe its laws—to deliver his followers from ignorance , idolatry and vice , instruct them in the principles and practice of piety and virtue , and lead them safely to a future life of perfect and eternal happiness and
glory ? Sufferings and death were indeed imposed on Jesus Christ as the final and necessary result of his undertaking : but they were imposed in order to perfect and exalt liis character , and not to purchase or extort from Almighty
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1811, page 483, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2419/page/35/
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