Hebreus 10

Ephrem the Syrian · Comentário Patrístico (catena)

Hebreus 10:3-5

If they had become perfect, their priesthood would have ceased, because they should have abstained from their sacrifices. And if their conscience was cleansed from sin, at the same time they would have been cleansed from the impurity of flesh. But "in these sacrifices there is a reminder of sin" every day. "For it is impossible that the blood of bulls and goats should take away sin." Therefore our Lord, who came to this world, said through the mouth of David, "Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired, but a body you have prepared for me," so that the victims of sacrifices might be abolished through his sacrifice. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS

Hebreus 10:19-20

"Therefore, brethren, we have confidence to enter the sanctuary," which is faith. In his blood he renewed for us the way of faith that the former priests had already. But since it had become obsolete among them, he renewed it for us at that time "through the curtain, that is, through his flesh." — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS

Hebreus 10:28-29

And who have "outraged the Spirit of grace," which is in us? These are the people who consider the gospel to be equal to the law of Moses. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS

Hebreus 10:32

Then, after he discouraged them from sinning, Paul returned to talk to them about the first topic, that is, that of the joy which was at the beginning of their discipleship. "Recall," he says, "the former days when, after you were enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings." — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS

Hebreus 10:33

Now "exposures to abuse and persecutions" they had to endure, because the law imposed on them the requirement to reveal their sins over their offerings. However, these exposures to abuse discouraged people from revealing their sins. These difficulties, he says, that you had in revealing your sins, and the shames that prevented you from revealing them, these fumes of the consciousness, which were like fierce pains and great sufferings of bitterness—all these have been taken away from you through the baptism of the waters and with the single expiation that you received. — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS

Hebreus 10:38-39

The just one lives when endurance and faith are found in that one. But if somebody is oppressed by doubts and scruples, because the rewarder did not appear, "my soul has no pleasure in him" on that day.But we are not victims of scruples, which destroy our path to heaven and "bring us to perdition"; we have faith instead, through which we obtain "the salvation of our soul." — COMMENTARY ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS