Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
And yet this does not follow after, who was made not according to the law of a carnal commandment: for what would follow would be to say, but according to that of a spiritual one. However by carnal, he implied temporary. As he says also in another place, carnal ordinances imposed until the time of reformation. Hebrews 9:10
According to the power of life, that is, because He lives by His own power.
He had said, that there is also a change of law, and up to this point he has shown it; henceforward he enquires into the cause, that which above all gives full assurance to men's minds, [I mean] the knowing the cause thoroughly; and it leads us more to faith when we have learned also the cause, and the principle according to which [the thing] comes to pass.
