SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:10
sino en viandas y en bebidas, y en diversos lavamientos, y ordenanzas de la carne impuestas hasta el tiempo de la correccin.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Hebrew 9:10
Verse 10. In meats and drinks, and divers washings] He had already mentioned eucharistic and sacrificial offerings, and nothing properly remained but the different kinds of clean and unclean animals which were used, or forbidden to be used, as articles of food; together with the different kinds or drinks, washings, baptismoiv, baptisms, immersions, sprinklings and washings of the body and the clothes, and carnal ordinances, or things which had respect merely to the body, and could have no moral influence upon the soul, unless considered in reference to that of which they were the similitudes, or figures. Carnal ordinances] dikaiwmata sarkov? Rites and ceremonies pertaining merely to the body. The word carnal is not used here, nor scarcely in any part of the New Testament, in that catachrestical or degrading sense in which many preachers and professors of Christianity take the liberty to use it.
Imposed on them until the time of reformation.] These rites and ceremonies were enacted, by Divine authority, as proper representations of the Gospel system, which should reform and rectify all things.
The time of reformation, kairov diorqwsewv, the time of rectifying, signifies the Gospel dispensation, under which every thing is set straight; every thing referred to its proper purpose and end; the ceremonial law fulfilled and abrogated; the moral law exhibited and more strictly enjoined; (see our Lord's sermon upon the mount;) and the spiritual nature of God's worship taught, and grace promised to purify the heart: so that, through the power of the eternal Spirit, all that was wrong in the soul is rectified; the affections, passions, and appetites purified; the understanding enlightened; the judgment corrected; the will refined; in a word, all things made new.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. [Which stood] only in meats and drinks , etc..] 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.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 6-10 - The apostle goes on to speak of the Old Testament services. Christ having undertaken to be our High Priest, could not enter into heave till he had shed his blood for us; and none of us can enter, eithe into God's gracious presence here, or his glorious presence hereafter but by the blood of Jesus. Sins are errors, great errors, both in judgment and practice; and who can understand all his errors? The leave guilt upon the conscience, not to be washed away but by the bloo of Christ. We must plead this blood on earth, while he is pleading it for us in heaven. A few believers, under the Divine teaching, saw something of the way of access to God, of communion with him, and of admission into heaven through the promised Redeemer, but the Israelite in general looked no further than the outward forms. These could no take away the defilement or dominion of sin. They could neithe discharge the debts, nor resolve the doubts, of him who did the service. Gospel times are, and should be, times of reformation, or clearer light as to all things needful to be known, and of greate love, causing us to bear ill-will to none, but good-will to all. We have greater freedom, both of spirit and speech, in the gospel, an greater obligations to a more holy living.
Greek Textus Receptus
μονον 3440 επι 1909 βρωμασιν 1033 και 2532 πομασιν 4188 και 2532 διαφοροις 1313 βαπτισμοις 909 και 2532 δικαιωμασιν 1345 σαρκος 4561 μεχρι 3360 καιρου 2540 διορθωσεως 1357 επικειμενα 1945 5740
Vincent's NT Word Studies
10. The impotence of the gifts and sacrifices lay in the fact that they were only symbolic ordinances.
Which stood in (epi). The passage should be read thus: "according to which are offered gifts and sacrifices which cannot perfect the worshipper as touching the conscience, being mere ordinances of the flesh on the ground of (epi resting upon) meats," etc.
Meats and drinks and divers washings (brwmasin kai pomasin kai diaforoiv baptismoiv). Brwmasin, clean and unclean meats. pomasin drinks, concerning which the Levitical law laid down no prescriptions except as to abstinence in the case of a Nazarite vow, and of the priests when they were about to officiate. See Num. vi. 3; Lev. x. 9. For baptismoiv washings see on ch. vi. 2.
And carnal ordinances (dikaiwmata sarkov). Omit and. The phrase is a general description of meats, etc. Lit. ordinances of the flesh. Imposed (epikeimena). Some interpreters find in this the suggestion of a burden, which these ceremonial observances assuredly were. Comp. Acts xv. 10. This, however, is not probable.
Until the time of reformation (mecri kairou diorqwsewv).
Diorqwsiv N.T.o , o LXX, occasionally in Class. Diorqwma correction, amendment, Acts xxiv. 2. Diorqwsiv lit. making straight: used by medical writers of straightening a distorted limb. The verb diorqoun (not in N.T.) in LXX of mending one's ways, Jer. vii. 3, 5; Wisd. ix. 18. Of setting up or establishing, Isa. xvi. 5; xlii. 7. "The time of reformation" is the Christian age, when God made with his people a better covenant. It was inaugurated by the death of Christ. See on ch. i. 2. The gifts and offerings were only provisional, to tide the people over to the better time.
