Hebrews 10:18

_ _ where remission of these is — as there is under the Gospel covenant (Hebrews 10:17). “Here ends the finale (Hebrews 10:1-18) of the great tripartite arrangement (Hebrews 7:1-25; 7:26-9:12; 9:13-10:18) of the middle portion of the Epistle. Its great theme was Christ a High Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. What it is to be a high priest after the order of Melchisedec is set forth, Hebrews 7:1-25, as contrasted with the Aaronic order. That Christ, however, as High Priest, is Aaron’s antitype in the true holy place, by virtue of His self-sacrifice here on earth, and Mediator of a better covenant, whose essential character the old only typified, we learn, Hebrews 7:26-9:12. And that Christ’s self-sacrifice, offered through the Eternal Spirit, is of everlasting power, as contrasted with the unavailing cycle of legal offerings, is established in the third part, Hebrews 9:13-10:18; the first half of this last portion [Hebrews 9:13-28], showing that both our present possession of salvation, and our future completion of it, are as certain to us as that He is with God, ruling as a Priest and reigning as a King, once more to appear, no more as a bearer of our sins, but in glory as a Judge. The second half, Hebrews 10:1-18, reiterating the main position of the whole, the High Priesthood of Christ, grounded on His offering of Himself — its kingly character its eternal accomplishment of its end, confirmed by Psalms 40:1-17 and Psalms 110:1-7 and Jeremiah 31:1-40” [Delitzsch in Alford].