The Berean Expositor
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(4) SPEAKING OF ADAM HE SAITH:
"But now we see not all things put under Him, but we see Jesus . . . . . crowned with
glory and honour" (Heb. 2: 8, 9).
(5) SPEAKING OF MOSES HE SAITH:
"Moses was verily faithful . . . . . as a servant . . . . . But Christ as a Son over His own
house" (Heb. 3: 5, 6).
(6) SPEAKING OF JOSHUA HE SAITH:
"For if Joshua had given them rest, then he would not afterward have spoken of
another day" (Heb. 4: 8).
(7) SPEAKING OF THE LEVITICAL PRIESTHOOD HE SAITH:
"They were truly many priests, because they were not suffered to continue by reason
of death. But this Man, because He continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood"
(Heb. 7: 23, 24).
(8) SPEAKING OF THE HIGH PRIEST'S WORK HE SAITH:
"Into the second (tabernacle) went the high priest alone every year, not without blood,
which he offered for himself and for the errors of the people."
"But Christ being come, an High Priest of good things to come, by a greater and more
perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building; neither by the
blood of goats, and calves, but by His own blood He entered in once into the holy place,
having found aionian redemption for us" (Heb. 9: 7-12).
(9) SPEAKING OF THE SACRIFICES HE SAITH:
"Sacrifice and offering Thou wouldest not, but a body hast Thou prepared Me . . . . .
we are sanctified by the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all" (Heb. 10: 1-10).
(10) SPEAKING OF FAITH HE SAITH:
"By faith Abel, Enoch, Noah," &100:
"Looking off unto Jesus the Captain and Perfecter of faith" (Heb. 11:, 12: 1, 2).
(11) SPEAKING OF THE MEDIATOR HE SAITH:
"Israel entreated that the Word should not be spoken to them any more (through
Moses the mediator)."
"But ye are come . . . . . to Jesus, the Mediator of the new covenant" (Heb. 12: 18-24).
(12) SPEAKING OF THE LEADERS HE SAITH:
"Remember your leaders. Obey your leaders."
"The Lord Jesus is the great Shepherd of the sheep" (Heb. 13: 7-21).
Shadow gives place to substance, the transient to the abiding, the old to the new, and,
throughout, "Christ is all".
Throughout this series we have given structures in fairly full detail. We now give, in
barest outline, the structure of the epistle as a whole, the details of which can be placed
together by the student from the articles dealing with the passages themselves:--