Heb 7:18-19 | Family | STEP | A disannulling ; setting aside and bringing to a close the ceremonial law and its priesthood. Weakness and unprofitableness ; as to the work of making a true expiation for sin, and thus opening a true way for salvation. See the following note, verse .

Hebrews 7:18-19

A disannulling; setting aside and bringing to a close the ceremonial law and its priesthood.

Weakness and unprofitableness; as to the work of making a true expiation for sin, and thus opening a true way for salvation. See the following note, verse Heb 7:19. The law made nothing perfect; the ceremonial law was not designed for that. It answered the local and temporary purpose for which it was intended, but its sacrifices could not, like the sacrifice of Christ, purge the conscience from dead works to serve the living God, cleanse from sin, justify and sanctify the soul, give it access to God, and inspire that hope which purifies it as Christ is pure.

But the bringing in of a better hope; the gospel through the atonement, righteousness, and intercession of Christ, does all this. Of course the gospel must be immeasurably superior in its benefits to the ceremonial law. Verses Heb 7:18,19 may be more plainly and simply rendered thus: "For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before, for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof--for the law made nothing perfect--and there is in the bringing in of a better hope," etc.