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Hebrews 10 Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899

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1 For the law having a shadow of the good things to come, not the very image of the things; by the selfsame sacrifices which they offer continually every year, can never make the comers thereunto perfect:

1 For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

2 For then they would have ceased to be offered: because the worshippers once cleansed should have no conscience of sin any longer:

2 Or else wouldn’t they have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having been once cleansed, would have had no more consciousness of sins?

3 But in them there is made a commemoration of sins every year.

3 But in those sacrifices there is a yearly reminder of sins.

4 For it is impossible that with the blood of oxen and goats sin should be taken away.

4 For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sins.

5 ◆ Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith: Sacrifice and oblation thou wouldest not: but a body thou hast fitted to me:

5 Therefore when he comes into the world, he says, “You didn’t desire sacrifice and offering, but you prepared a body for me.

6 ◆ Holocausts for sin did not please thee.

6 You had no pleasure in whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin.

7 ◆ Then said I: Behold I come: in the head of the book it is written of me: that I should do thy will, O God.

7 Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come (in the scroll of the book it is written of me) to do your will, O God.’”

8 In saying before, Sacrifices, and oblations, and holocausts for sin thou wouldest not, neither are they pleasing to thee, which are offered according to the law.

8 Previously saying, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin you didn’t desire, neither had pleasure in them” (those which are offered according to the law),

9 Then said I: Behold, I come to do thy will, O God: he taketh away the first, that he may establish that which followeth.

9 then he has said, “Behold, I have come to do your will.” He takes away the first, that he may establish the second,

10 In the which will, we are sanctified by the oblation of the body of Jesus Christ once.

10 by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

11 And every priest indeed standeth daily ministering, and often offering the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins.

11 Every priest indeed stands day by day serving and offering often the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins,

12 But this man offering one sacrifice for sins, for ever sitteth on the right hand of God,

12 but he, when he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God,

13 From henceforth expecting, until his enemies be made his footstool.

13 from that time waiting until his enemies are made the footstool of his feet.

14 For by one oblation he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.

14 For by one offering he has perfected forever those who are being sanctified.

15 And the Holy Ghost also doth testify this to us. For after that he said:

15 The Holy Spirit also testifies to us, for after saying,

16 And this is the testament which I will make unto them after those days, saith the Lord. I will give my laws in their hearts, and on their minds will I write them:

16 “This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days,” says the Lord, “I will put my laws on their heart, I will also write them on their mind;” then he says,

17 And their sins and iniquities I will remember no more.

17 “I will remember their sins and their iniquities no more.”

18 Now where there is a remission of these, there is no more an oblation for sin.

18 Now where remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.

19 Having therefore, brethren, a confidence in the entering into the holies by the blood of Christ;

19 Having therefore, brothers, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus,

20 A new and living way which he hath dedicated for us through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,

20 by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,

21 And a high priest over the house of God:

21 and having a great priest over God’s house,

22 Let us draw near with a true heart in fulness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with clean water.

22 let’s draw near with a true heart in fullness of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience and having our body washed with pure water,

23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering (for he is faithful that hath promised),

23 let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

24 And let us consider one another, to provoke unto charity and to good works:

24 Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

25 Not forsaking our assembly, as some are accustomed; but comforting one another, and so much the more as you see the day approaching.

25 not forsaking our own assembling together, as the custom of some is, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

26 For if we sin wilfully after having the knowledge of the truth, there is now left no sacrifice for sins,

26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,

27 But a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and the rage of a fire which shall consume the adversaries.

27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

28 A man making void the law of Moses, dieth without any mercy under two or three witnesses:

28 A man who disregards Moses’ law dies without compassion on the word of two or three witnesses.

29 How much more, do you think he deserveth worse punishments, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath esteemed the blood of the testament unclean, by which he was sanctified, and hath offered an affront to the Spirit of grace?

29 How much worse punishment do you think he will be judged worthy of who has trodden under foot the Son of God, and has counted the blood of the covenant with which he was sanctified an unholy thing, and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

30 For we know him that hath said: Vengeance belongeth to me, and I will repay. And again: The Lord shall judge his people.

30 For we know him who said, “Vengeance belongs to me. I will repay,” says the Lord. Again, “The Lord will judge his people.”

31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

32 But call to mind the former days, wherein, being illuminated, you endured a great fight of afflictions.

32 But remember the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:

33 And on the one hand indeed, by reproaches and tribulations, were made a gazingstock; and on the other, became companions of them that were used in such sort.

33 partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions, and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.

34 For you both had compassion on them that were in bands, and took with joy the being stripped of your own goods, knowing that you have a better and a lasting substance.

34 For you both had compassion on me in my chains and joyfully accepted the plundering of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an enduring one in the heavens.

35 Do not therefore lose your confidence, which hath a great reward.

35 Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.

36 For patience is necessary for you; that, doing the will of God, you may receive the promise.

36 For you need endurance so that, having done the will of God, you may receive the promise.

37 For yet a little and a very little while, and he that is to come, will come, and will not delay.

37 “In a very little while, he who comes will come and will not wait.

38 But my just man liveth by faith; but if he withdraw himself, he shall not please my soul.

38 But the righteous one will live by faith. If he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him.”

39 But we are not the children of withdrawing unto perdition, but of faith to the saving of the soul.

39 But we are not of those who shrink back to destruction, but of those who have faith to the saving of the soul.

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Why does my Bible say something different?

Psalm 40:6 and Hebrews 10:5: “ears” or “a body”?
In the Hebrew text of Psalm 40 God has “dug” or “opened” the psalmist’s ears. In the Greek Septuagint (Psalm 39:7) God has “prepared a body” for him, and the Epistle to the Hebrews quotes that Greek wording of Christ coming into the world. The Orthodox Church reads the Greek. Scholars still debate how the Greek reading arose.

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

Commentary 10:8 John Chrysostom, Homilies on Hebrews (Homily XVIII)
In what has gone before he had shown that the sacrifices were unavailing for perfect purification, and were a type, and greatly defective. Since then there was this objection to his argument, If they are types, how is it that, after the truth is come, they have not ceased, nor given place, but are still performed?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 14 (1889)
Quotes verse 10:32 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XV)
… incur danger, or are deprived of their goods, but of these also, thus saying, "Call to remembrance the former days, in which after ye were illuminated ye endured a great fight of afflictions; partly whilst ye were made a gazing stock by reproaches, and afflictions." On this account then Christ hath appointed the reward also to be great.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Quotes verse 10:22 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture III)
… one incorporeal for the incorporeal part, and the other bodily for the body: the water cleanses the body, and the Spirit seals the soul; that we may draw near unto God, having our heart sprinkled by the Spirit, and our body washed with pure water.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
Quotes verse 10:29 Basil of Caesarea, On the Holy Spirit (Chapters XXVIII–XXIX)
You hope to "reign with" Christ; but you "do despite unto the Spirit of grace" by assigning Him the rank of a slave and a subordinate.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
Quotes verse 10:37 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily LXXIV)
Hear him saying, "Yet a little while, and He that cometh will come, and will not tarry. The Lord is at hand, be careful for nothing;" and again, "The fashion of this world passeth away." For neither doth he command only, but also soothes, as a physician should.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)

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