V. 9.— Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. Then he said (Psalms 40:7-8), Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first... — viz., sacrifice and burnt-offerings, and offerings for sin, which are offered by the law. That he might establish the second— that is, the efficacy of the sacrifice of Christ, who came to do the will of God by finishing transgression, making an end of sin, making reconciliation for iniquity, and bringing in everlasting righteousness. The blood-shedding of the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world, in which God smelled a savour of rest, had only been prefigured by the legal sacrifices. The Apostle’ s argument here is precisely similar to his reasoning respecting the priesthood in chap. 7:, when he proves the inferiority of the priesthood after the order of Aaron to that after the order of Melchisedec. It is, in fact, the same subject presented to us under two different aspects; the one being the legal sacrifices, abolished by the great sacrifice which they only shadowed forth; the other the priesthood made after the law of a carnal commandment, superseded by the priesthood made after the power of an endless life.