Hebrews 10:1-18: Jesus is Superior: Case Closed

Published: Feb. 3, 2010, 6:30 p.m.

b"In the tenth chapter of Hebrews, the author concludes his lengthy argument for the superiority of Christ to everything in the old covenant. However, he does not stoop to sheer emotional manipulation like today's televised jurists. He does not even praise the Lord for the greatness of the sacrifice of Christ's sacrifice. Instead, he presses on and repeats his primary point once more: the glory of the superior sacrificial offering of the superior high priest operating within the superior covenant. There is nothing new here. If fact, much of what he says in the first eighteen verses of the tenth chapter will be very familiar to the reader. He does not say anything new but the way that he says what he says here is new. In doing so, the author highlights for us what he deems to be the central issues in his argument."