SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:13
Porque si la sangre de los toros y de los machos cabríos, y la ceniza esparcida de una becerra, santifica a los inmundos para purificacin de la carne,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Hebrew 9:13
Verse 13. Sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh] Answers the end proposed by the law; namely, to remove legal disabilities and punishments, having the body and its interests particularly in view, though adumbrating or typifying the soul and its concerns.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 11-14 - All good things past, present, and to come, were and are founded upo the priestly office of Christ, and come to us from thence. Our Hig Priest entered into heaven once for all, and has obtained eterna redemption. The Holy Ghost further signified and showed that the Ol Testament sacrifices only freed the outward man from ceremonia uncleanness, and fitted him for some outward privileges. What gave suc power to the blood of Christ? It was Christ's offering himself withou any sinful stain in his nature or life. This cleanses the most guilt conscience from dead, or deadly, works to serve the living God; from sinful works, such as pollute the soul, as dead bodies did the person of the Jews who touched them; while the grace that seals pardon new-creates the polluted soul. Nothing more destroys the faith of the gospel, than by any means to weaken the direct power of the blood of Christ. The depth of the mystery of the sacrifice of Christ, we cannot dive into, the height we cannot comprehend. We cannot search out the greatness of it, or the wisdom, the love, the grace that is in it. But in considering the sacrifice of Christ, faith finds life, food, an refreshment.
Greek Textus Receptus
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Vincent's NT Word Studies
13. Ashes of a heifer (spodov damalewv). Spodov ashes, only here, Matt. xi. 21; Luke x. 13, in both instances in the phrase sackcloth and ashes. Often in LXX. Damaliv heifer, N.T.o . The two examples selected cover the entire legal provision for removing uncleanness, whether contracted by sin or by contact with death. "The blood of bulls and goats" refers to the sin-offerings, perhaps especially to the annual atonement (Leviticus 16); "the ashes of a heifer" to the occasional sacrifice of the red heifer (Numbers 19) for purification from uncleanness contracted by contact with the dead. The Levitical law required two remedies: the Christian economy furnishes one for all phases of defilement.
Sprinkling the unclean (rantizousa touv kekoinwmenouv). For sprinkling see on 1 Pet. i. 2. The verb only in Hebrews, except Mark vii. 4. For the unclean rend. them that have been defiled. The literal rendering of the participle brings out better the incidental or occasional character of the defilement.
