Incarnation and Atonement.

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HEBREWS 10:4-10.HEB 10:4-10
“IT is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when be cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a body hast thou prepared me.
“In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou host had no pleasure. Then said I, Lo, I Come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
"Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldst not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law; then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.”
PARAPHRASE OF THE ABOVE.
INCARNATION. GOD ACTS.
It is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins. Wherefore when He cometh into the world, He saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldst not, but a human body, worthy of thine acceptance, as a spotless, perfect sacrifice for sin, hast thou prepared Me.
ATONEMENT. CHRIST ACTS.
In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hadst no pleasure, then said I (as it is written of me in the volume of the book, namely, Ex. 21:2-6, where I am typically presented as the' willing, obedient Servant whose ear has been opened, Or bored with an awl, to the doorpost: see Psa. 40:6) Lo, I come to do thy will, O God, that is, to suffer for sin in that human body which Thou hast prepared Me.
THE ABOVE EXPLAINED.
Above, when after having said, "Sacrifice and offering and burnt offering and offering for sin thou wouldst not, neither hadst pleasure therein, which are offered by the law," He goes on to say " Lo, I come to do thy wilt'
O God, "that is, to die on the cross, to give Myself as an offering for sin, and in so saying, and doing, He taketh away the first that He may establish the second, by the which will we are sanctified" through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.