bullock was sacrificed at one time, Lev. xvi. 9, 3 : but that par ticular animal was not by itself better than all the animals of the same species ; therefore it is here put in the plural number. An additional reason besides, for the plural, was the annual re petition of the sacrifices. IB, LXX., ^(xs-yjic,, Lev. xvi. 9, 3, and elsewhere. — tig rd ayta, into the holy place) into heaven, ver. 24. aiwlav, eternal) not merely for a day or a year. — zipd/jus^s, having found or obtained) So, / have found a ransom. Job xxxiii. 24. The zeal of Him who has found or obtained, as also His fidelity and wisdom, are denoted : the newness and joyousness of the finding or thing found, ch. x. 20. The access of Christ to the Father was arduous ; ch. v. 7. No one previously had trodden the way of life ; Acts ii. 28 ; John iii. 13. Christ could not but find : but yet to seek was a matter of labour and difficulty.
13. Tap, for) He confirms the fact, that the power of the one sacrifice of Christ is as great as he intimated at ver. 12. — ravpuv %a/ rpdyuv) of bulls and goats, which are mere brutes. Extenua tion.1 — dapd^suc, of a heifer) which was to be red, Num. xix. Andr. Christ. Zellerus has enlarged the treatise of Maimonides on this subject, and compares with it this passage of the apostle, p. 504. It is a tradition among the Jews, that nine heifers of that sort were sacrificed from the time of Moses to the destruction of the second temple ; see ibid., pp. 416, 417. — rovg xsxoivupswug, those defiled or made unclean) A participle [defiled on some par ticular occasion] : less strong than xvvovg, [habitually] common or defiled. Construe with dyidfyi, sanctifies; compare what fol lows. — xaDaporyra, cleanness or purifying) Purifying was per formed by sprinkling, not by washing ; but washing followed by inseparable connection : Num. xix. 19. This fact is exceedingly useful for making a distinction between justification and renew- in o\
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14. TO «///,«) The blood, and death : see the following verses. — bin Ylvsv/uarog aluviov, by the eternal Spirit) See Luke iv. 18 : and comp. Rom. i. 4, xv. 16. The Spirit is opposed to the con dition of irrational animals, ver. 13. The epithet eternal is un derstood from ver. 12, 15, ch. vii. 16, and is opposed to the heifer
1 See App. The same as Litotes. The blood of bulls, etc., a less forci ble expression than is the meaning, viz. sucrif.™*. — ED.