Xībóláishū 9:13

13 Ruò shānyáng hé gōngniú de xiĕ , bìng mǔ niúdú de huī sǎ zaì bù jié de rénshēn shang , shàngqiĕ jiào rén chéng shèng , shēntǐ jiéjìng .

Xībóláishū 9:13 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 9:13

For if the blood of bulls and of goats
Shed either on the day of atonement, or at any other time: the former of thee, Pausanias ^F25 relates, was drank by certain priestesses among the Grecians, whereby they were tried, whether they spoke truth or no if not, they were immediately punished; and the latter, he says ^F26, will dissolve an adamant stone; but neither of them can purge from sin:

and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean;
the apostle refers to the red heifer, ( Numbers 19:1-22 ) which being burnt, its ashes were gathered up and put into a vessel, and water poured upon them, which was sprinkled with a bunch of hyssop on unclean persons; the ashes and the water mixed together made the water of separation, or of sprinkling; for so it is called by the Septuagint, (udwr) (rantismou) , "the water of sprinkling", and in the Targum in a following citation: this was the purification for sin, though it only

sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh;
the body, or only in an external and typical way, but did not really sanctify the heart, or purify and cleanse the soul from sin. The Jews say, that the waters of purification for sin were not waters of purification for sin, without the ashes ^F1; and to this the Targumist, on ( Ezekiel 36:25 ) and on ( Zechariah 13:1 ) refers, paraphrasing both texts thus;

``I will forgive their sins as they are cleansed with the water of sprinkling, and with the ashes of the heifer, which is a purification for sin.''

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FOOTNOTES:

F25 Achaica, sive l. 7. p. 450.
F26 Arcadica, sive l. 8. p. 485.
F1 Misn. Temura, c. 1. sect. 5. Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.

Xībóláishū 9:13 In-Context

11 Dàn xiànzaì Jīdū yǐjing lái dào , zuò le jiānglái mĕi shì de Dàjìsī , jīngguò nà gèng dà gèng quánbeì de zhàngmù , bú shì rén shǒu suǒ zào yĕ bú shì shǔ hū zhè shìjiè de .

12 Bìngqiĕ búyòng shānyáng hé niúdú de xiĕ , nǎi yòng zìjǐ de xiĕ , zhǐ yī cì jìnrù shèng suǒ , chéng le yǒngyuǎn shú zuì de shì .

13 Ruò shānyáng hé gōngniú de xiĕ , bìng mǔ niúdú de huī sǎ zaì bù jié de rénshēn shang , shàngqiĕ jiào rén chéng shèng , shēntǐ jiéjìng .

14 Hékuàng Jīdū jiè zhe yǒngyuǎn de líng , jiāng zìjǐ wú xiá wú cī xiàn gĕi shén , tāde xiĕ qǐbù gèng néng xǐ jìng nǐmen de xīn . ( yuánwén zuò liángxīn ) chú qù nǐmen de sǐ xíng , shǐ nǐmen shìfèng nà yǒngshēng shén ma .

15 Wèicǐ tā zuò le xīnyuē de zhōngbǎo . jìrán shòu sǐ shú le rén zaì qián yuē zhī shí suǒ fàn de zuì guo , biàn jiào méng zhào zhī rén dé zhaó suǒ yīngxǔ yǒngyuǎn de chǎnyè .