Hebrews 10:20 (WEB)
by the way which he dedicated for us, a new and living way, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh,
Fathers and councils · 11
Gregory of Nyssa
“For the first way being destroyed, there must needs again be consecrated for the wanderers a new and living way, even I myself, Who am the way.”” — editor's note: Cf. Heb. x. 20
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Athanasius of Alexandria
“As then Aaron was the same and did not change by putting on the high-priestly dress, but remaining the same was only robed, so that, had any one seen him offering, and had said, ‘Lo, Aaron has this day become high-priest,’ he had not implied…” — editor's note: This is one of those distinct and luminous protests by anticipation against Nestorianism, which in consequence may be abused to the purpose of the opposite…
Read the whole comment“…might quicken it in the blood of His own body, and might open ‘for us a way new and living,’ as the Apostle says, ‘through the veil, that is to say, His flesh;’ which he signifies elsewhere thus, ‘Wherefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creation; old things are passed away, behold all things are become new.’” — editor's note: Heb. x. 20.
Read the whole comment“Let the gates of the heavens be shut lest Thy Word consecrate for us the road thither through the veil, namely His Flesh.’” — editor's note: Heb. x. 20.
Read the whole comment“…sons of disobedience”); while the Lord came to cast down the devil, and clear the air and prepare the way for us up into heaven, as said the Apostle: “Through the veil, that is to say, His flesh”—and this must needs be by death—well, by what other kind of death could this have come to pass, than by one which took…” — editor's note: Heb. x. 20.
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Theodoret of Cyrus
“Coming with truth drawing near with a true heart in fulness of faith.”” — editor's note: Hebrews x. 19–22. In iii. 607. ed. Migne this passage is quoted by Theodoret as in A.V.
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John Chrysostom
“And by the Holy of Holies he means Heaven; and by the veil, Heaven, and the Flesh “entereth into that within the veil”: that is to say, “through the veil of His flesh.”” — editor's note: This passage is translated [in the English edition] as if there was a point between τὴν σάρκα and εἰσερχομένην : and as if in the next clause τουτέστι was a…
Read the whole comment“Hebrews x. 19–23” — the author cites it
Read the whole comment“That we have an entrance into the holy of holies, “the new way which He hath inaugurated for us.”— c. x. 20 ), does the same again from the more gloomy ones, speaking thus.” — the author cites it
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Gregory of Nazianzus
“…of praise upon the heavenly Altar, with the heavenly dances; let us hold aside the first veil; let us approach the second, and look into the Holy of Holies.” — editor's note: Heb. xiii. 15 and x. 20.
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Leo the Great
“The New Testament also was being ratified, and in the blood of Christ the heirs of the eternal Kingdom were being enrolled; the High Pontiff was entering the Holy of Holies, and to intercede with God the spotless Priest was passing in through the veil of His flesh.” — editor's note: Cf. Heb. x. 20: and below, S. Matt. xxvii. 51 and 54.
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Cross-references · 15
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.
Cited together in Sermons Sermon 68.
Cited together in On the Incarnation of the Word §24.