Hebreos 9:10

10 No se trata más que de reglas externas relacionadas con alimentos, bebidas y diversas ceremonias de purificación, válidas solo hasta el tiempo señalado para reformarlo todo.

Hebreos 9:10 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 9:10

[Which stood] only in meats and drinks
That is, along with the gifts and sacrifices offered, there only were meat offerings and drink offerings; things which only respect the body, and cannot therefore make perfect, as to the conscience; to which may be added, that while the tabernacle was standing, and typical service was in being, there was a prohibition of certain meats, as unclean, and an allowance of others, as clean, ( Leviticus 11:2-31 ) and there were certain drinks which were unlawful to certain persons, at certain times, as to the priests and Nazarites, ( Leviticus 10:9 ) ( Numbers 6:3 ) and which, for the above reason, could make no man perfect:

and divers washings
or "baptisms": the doctrine of which, the apostle would not have laid again, ( Hebrews 6:2 ) these were the washings of the priests and of the Israelites, and of sacrifices, and of garments, and of vessels and other things; and which, because they were performed by immersion, they are called "baptisms": and now since these only sanctified to the purifying of the flesh, or what was outward, they could not reach the conscience, or make perfect with respect to that: and

carnal ordinances:
which belonged to the flesh, and not the spirit or soul, and therefore could not affect that; besides, these were only

imposed on them until the time of reformation;
they were enjoined the Jews only, though by God himself; and were put upon them as a burden, or a yoke, and which was on some accounts intolerable, but were not to continue any longer than the time of the Gospel, here called "the time of reformation", or of "correction", and emendation; in which, things that were faulty and deficient are amended and perfected, and in which burdensome rites and ceremonies are removed, and better ordinances introduced: or rather of direction: in which saints are directed to Christ, the sum and substance of all types, shadows, and sacrifices, and in whom alone perfection is.

Hebreos 9:10 In-Context

8 Con esto el Espíritu Santo da a entender que, mientras siga en pie el primer tabernáculo, aún no se habrá revelado el camino que conduce al Lugar Santísimo.

9 Esto nos ilustra hoy día que las ofrendas y los sacrificios que allí se ofrecen no tienen poder alguno para perfeccionar la conciencia de los que celebran ese culto.

10 No se trata más que de reglas externas relacionadas con alimentos, bebidas y diversas ceremonias de purificación, válidas solo hasta el tiempo señalado para reformarlo todo.

11 Cristo, por el contrario, al presentarse como sumo sacerdote de los bienes definitivos en el tabernáculo más excelente y perfecto, no hecho por manos humanas (es decir, que no es de esta creación),

12 entró una sola vez y para siempre en el Lugar Santísimo. No lo hizo con sangre de machos cabríos y becerros, sino con su propia sangre, logrando así un rescate eterno.