Hebrews 9:10

Heb. 9:10. (Which stood) only in meats and drinks, and diverse washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed (on them) until the time of reformation.

Blank Bible: Owen in Loc: p. 239, 240, 241, 242.

An important comment on the nature of the two dispensations occurs in Qualifications for Full Communion in which Hebrews 9:10 is mentioned.

(7.) This is just such an alteration as might reasonably be expected from what we are taught of the whole nature of the two dispensations. As the one had carnal ordinances (so they are called Hebrews 9:10) the other a spiritual service; (John 4:24) the one an earthly Canaan, the other a heavenly; the one an external Jerusalem, the other a spiritual; the one an earthly high priest, the other heavenly; the one a worldly sanctuary, the other a spiritual; the one a bodily and temporal redemption (which is all that they generally discerned or understood in the passover), the other a spiritual and eternal. And agreeably to these things, it was so ordered in Providence, that Israel, the congregation that should enter this worldly sanctuary, and attend these carnal ordinances should be much more a worldly, carnal congregation, than the New Testament congregation. One reason why it was ordered in providence that there should be such a difference, seems to be this, viz., that the Messiah might have the honor of introducing a state of greater purity and spiritual glory. Hence God is said to find fault with that ancient dispensation of the covenant, Hebrews 8:7; Hebrews 8:8. And the time of introducing the new dispensation is called the time of reformation, Hebrews 9:10. And one thing, wherein the amendment of what God found fault with in the former dispensation should consist, the apostle intimates, is the greater purity and spirituality of the church, Hebrews 8:7; Hebrews 8:8; Hebrews 8:11.

Heb. 9:11