PERFECTION

PERDITION

OR

Letter killeth

Spirit giveth life

Glory done away

Rather glorious

Condemnation - glory

Righteousness - exceed in glory

No glory in this respect

By reason of the glory that excelleth

That done away is glorious

Much more that which remaineth is glorious

We are changed from glory

To glory

The face of Moses 3:13

The face of Jesus Christ 4:6

Veiled 3:13,14.

Unveiled 3:18.

We know more or less how the apostle will proceed. He will go `from glory to glory'. He will honour the law,

the types, the names of Moses and Aaron, but he will faithfully point out where the Old Covenant failed and where

the New succeeds. Christ therefore according to 2 Corinthians 3, as well as Hebrews 3, has `more glory' than

Moses. In 2 Corinthians, this was because of the infinite superiority of the New Covenant, here, in Hebrews, Paul

has another purpose in view, although related, as we shall find later, with this same New Covenant. Here he says

that the greater glory of Christ over Moses, is `inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than

the house. For every house is builded by some one; but He that built all things is God' (Heb. 3:3,4).

`This Man' (Heb. 3:3). The apostle draws attention by the use of `this', `this man' or `these', to prophets, priests

and offerings in this epistle, setting the old over against the new, and thereby magnifying the Son of God in all His

mediatorial offices.

`God Who ... spake in time past ... by the

PROPHET

prophets, hath in THESE last days spoken unto us

by His Son' (Heb. 1:1,2).

`For THIS MAN was counted worthy of more

glory than Moses' (Heb. 3:3).

KING

`For THOSE Priests were made without an oath;

but this with an oath by Him that said unto Him,

The Lord sware ... order of Melchisedec' (Heb.

`But THIS MAN, because He continueth ever,

PRIEST

hath an unchangeable priesthood' (Heb. 7:24).

`For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts

PRIEST

and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that

OFFERING

THIS MAN have somewhat also to offer' (Heb.

`But THIS MAN, after He had offered one

SEATED

sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right

hand of God' (Heb. 10:12).

While the word `house' in Hebrews 3:2-6 is the Greek oikos, the apostle avoids the use of oikodomeo `to build'

in Hebrews. There must be some reason for this, for oikodomeo and its compounds are of frequent employment by

Paul in his other epistles. If the reader should call to mind the passage in Hebrews 11, where it says of the Heavenly

City `Whose builder and maker is God', he will find that the word translated `builder' is the Greek word technites

`artificer'; or if the words of Hebrews 9 come into mind `not of this building', there the word translated building is

the Greek ktisis `creation'. The word translated `build' in Hebrews 3:3,4 is kataskeuazo, skeue is the `tackling' of a

ship (Acts 27:19). Skeuos is a `vessel' and in Hebrews `the vessels of the ministry' used in the Tabernacle erected

by Moses (Heb. 9:21). So in Hebrews 9:2 the word `made' kataskeuazo is used of the Tabernacle, and after

speaking of the candlestick, the table and the shewbread, the golden censer, the ark and the mercy seat, the apostle