Ex. xxix. 22, etc. ; Lev. vii. 37, viii. 22, 28, 29, 31, 33, where the writer is treating of Levitical perfection ; but here rsXsjuffis rtXsia, absolute perfection, is intended: comp. ver. 19. The article is not added, and therefore Paul increases the force of the negative expression. — %v) if — were. So %v, ch. viii. 7. — o >vao<; 'yap, for the people) The conjunction /«p put after the noun, as in ver. 28, intimates that the noun people is here emphatic : the whole people of GOD. It at the same time shows why any one might perhaps ascribe perfection to the Levitical priesthood, and why it is necessary that that opinion should be confuted : comp. yap, for, which is likewise subjoined to the word zi, if, ch. viii. 7, 8. — SK avrri, under, or in connection with it) Under the Levitical priesthood. 'E-TT/ with the dative, on, upon, concerning, in the case of, etc., often denotes the object, and that too having the force either of cause or effect, ch. viii. 1, 6, ix. 10, 17, xi. 4.
— vsvo/Ao^sr^ro, had received the law) The Pluperfect, because a time intervened before the 110th Psalm was given. As min is
the law, ver. 12, so the LXX. translate the verb min nva, to instruct any one : Ps. xxv. 8, xxvii. 11, cxix. 33, 102. The people were only instructed about the Levitical priesthood, with which the whole law is occupied, and speaks of no other priesthood, ver. 5 ; but the 110th Psalm introduces a different system of instruction, namely, because God has changed the priesthood. — ric 'in, what any longer now) This now any longer is very urgent. — %p£/a, necessity) for GOD does nothing in vain.
— srtpov, another) Comp. the epithets, new, second, ch. viii. 13, x. 9. — aviaratfOai) should arise anew, ver. 15. The antithesis is XeysffQai, should be called, according to the old form of instruction.
— Xsysrf^a/, should not be called) in the psalm, at the time of which Aaron, i.e. the order of Aaron, flourished.
12. Msraridspivqs, being transferred or changed) from order to order, from tribe to tribe. — yap? for) He shows why, in ver. 11, he presses the words of the psalm concerning the order of Mel- chisedec, because it follows from this, that the law was also changed along with the priesthood, and that both are brought to Christ. — vopov, of the law) ver. 5, 16, 19, 28 ; ch. viii. 4. Taf/c, order (not vfaog), is the expression used of Christ.
13. 'Ep ov) He, respecting whom these things are spoken by the Psalmist. — ^sTsff^y,-^^ belonged to, had part in) We have