For the Law, since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things, can never, by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, because the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have had consciousness of sins? But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year. For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins. Therefore, when He comes into the world, He says, “SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED, BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME; IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE. “THEN I SAID, ‘BEHOLD, I HAVE COME (IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN OF ME) TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD.”
"In this chapter the author emphasizes the finality of Christ's sacrifice by contrasting it with the lack of finality of the OT system of law and sacrifices. Christ's redemption needs no repetition and no supplementation. Therefore, a rejection of His sacrifice is final and unforgivable." (Ryrie)
shadow - "The Mosaic Law, with its Levitical priests and their continual and inadequate offerings, was a shadow of Christ's coming and once-for-all offering." (Ryrie)
He comes - Christ comes.
body - "representing the whole; complete submission is meant - replaces "ears," representing a part in Ps 40:6, "My ears You have opened", is an expression signifying obedience, based either on the custom of piercing the earlobe as a sign of voluntary perpetual service (Ex 21:6) or on the idea of hearing what God says (Is 50:4-5). Instead of external ceremony only, David realizes that God wants his heart. In effect, he is saying, "Here I am to do what is prescribed to me as my duty in the law, but to do it from the heart." (Ryrie)
"In the Psalm, indeed, sacrifice is contrasted with obedience to the will of God. A body is prepared for Christ that in it He may obey God. But it is the offering of this body as a sacrifice in contrast to the animal sacrifices of the law, which the writer emphasizes ... The passage in the epistle is far from saying that the essence or worth of Christ's offering of Himself lies simply in obedience to the will of God. It does not refer to the point wherein lies the intrinsic worth of the Son's offering, or whether it may be resolved into obedience unto God. Its point is quite different. It argues that the Son's offering of Himself is the true and final offering for sin, because it is the sacrifice, which according to prophecy, God desired to be made." (Davidson)
v 7 - "Not only did the Lord declare that He had come to do the Father's will, He also showed how inseparable were His own person and work from the testimony of Old Testament Scripture. He had come to fulfill both the Law and the prophets (Matt 5:17). He was the one great subject of their testimony (Jn 5:39). What He taught His disciples before His death He repeated after His resurrection, "that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms concerning Me" (Lk 24:44). So when He says, "Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God," He declares in the same breath, "In the roll of the Book it is written of Me." (Vine)
"Israel, by faith, had offered animal sacrifices which were insufficient, and God accepted their payment by His forbearance. It is as if Israel wrote checks written with the blood of bulls and goats, checks which would not clear because of insufficient payment, were it not that God held them in escrow until the sufficient payment was made. The blood of Jesus Christ, then, validated the escrow account for Israel's benefit; and that is what Paul refers to when he talks about the sins that are past being remitted: Romans 3:25: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God." (McLean)
"It is clear that God accepted sacrifices offered in time past, but Israel learns here that God took no pleasure in them. Rather, God the Father is pleased with the cross-work of God the Son, Christ's death, burial and resurrection being the singular event upon which all grace is focused." (McLean)
"In this chapter the author emphasizes the finality of Christ's sacrifice by contrasting it with the lack of finality of the OT system of law and sacrifices. Christ's redemption needs no repetition and no supplementation. Therefore, a rejection of His sacrifice is final and unforgivable." (Ryrie)
shadow - "The Mosaic Law, with its Levitical priests and their continual and inadequate offerings, was a shadow of Christ's coming and once-for-all offering." (Ryrie)
He comes - Christ comes.
body - "representing the whole; complete submission is meant - replaces "ears," representing a part in Ps 40:6, "My ears You have opened", is an expression signifying obedience, based either on the custom of piercing the earlobe as a sign of voluntary perpetual service (Ex 21:6) or on the idea of hearing what God says (Is 50:4-5). Instead of external ceremony only, David realizes that God wants his heart. In effect, he is saying, "Here I am to do what is prescribed to me as my duty in the law, but to do it from the heart." (Ryrie)
"In the Psalm, indeed, sacrifice is contrasted with obedience to the will of God. A body is prepared for Christ that in it He may obey God. But it is the offering of this body as a sacrifice in contrast to the animal sacrifices of the law, which the writer emphasizes ... The passage in the epistle is far from saying that the essence or worth of Christ's offering of Himself lies simply in obedience to the will of God. It does not refer to the point wherein lies the intrinsic worth of the Son's offering, or whether it may be resolved into obedience unto God. Its point is quite different. It argues that the Son's offering of Himself is the true and final offering for sin, because it is the sacrifice, which according to prophecy, God desired to be made." (Davidson)
v 7 - "Not only did the Lord declare that He had come to do the Father's will, He also showed how inseparable were His own person and work from the testimony of Old Testament Scripture. He had come to fulfill both the Law and the prophets (Matt 5:17). He was the one great subject of their testimony (Jn 5:39). What He taught His disciples before His death He repeated after His resurrection, "that all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the Law of Moses, and the prophets, and the Psalms concerning Me" (Lk 24:44). So when He says, "Lo, I come to do Thy will, O God," He declares in the same breath, "In the roll of the Book it is written of Me." (Vine)
"Israel, by faith, had offered animal sacrifices which were insufficient, and God accepted their payment by His forbearance. It is as if Israel wrote checks written with the blood of bulls and goats, checks which would not clear because of insufficient payment, were it not that God held them in escrow until the sufficient payment was made. The blood of Jesus Christ, then, validated the escrow account for Israel's benefit; and that is what Paul refers to when he talks about the sins that are past being remitted: Romans 3:25: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God." (McLean)
"It is clear that God accepted sacrifices offered in time past, but Israel learns here that God took no pleasure in them. Rather, God the Father is pleased with the cross-work of God the Son, Christ's death, burial and resurrection being the singular event upon which all grace is focused." (McLean)
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