by T. Austin-Sparks
From conference messages given in June 1934. Edited and supplied by the Golden Candlestick Trust.
The letter is one comprehensive argument that the Lord Jesus has embraced in His own Person the whole of the Jewish system, and has transcended it. The words 'much more', 'better', and such like always point to the transcendence of the Lord Jesus over everything in the Mosaic economy, and yet in Him it is all gathered up. The purpose of the letter, as we know, was to bring these Hebrews wholly and utterly out of what was partial, imperfect, fragmentary, and very largely passing and transient as to the form of its expression, to the full, the complete, the perfect, the final, the eternal; and that is all in Christ. Even with these Hebrews, it is shown in this letter that their history far back in the days of Moses and Aaron had behind it the same principles as are behind the Christian position.
