reduced to ashes [ashes of a heifer~\. — a^^ov, without spot) Supe rior as contrasted with every Levitical victim. — xaQapis?, shall purge) It corresponds to xatfa^oYjjra, purifying ', ver. 13. So ver. 22, 23, ch. x. 23, i. 3. It is put in the future as an antithesis to the present, a^/a^g/, sanctifies , Levitically, ver. 13. — d^b) dirb, ej$, from, to, denote things contrary. — vexpuv spyuv, from dead works) Things dead most of all defile. The antithesis is £wvr/, living. The power of sin and death was abolished by the blood of Christ. — g/'g rb Xarpsvetv, to serve) for ever, in a manner most blessed and truly sacerdotal, [ver. 12 ; Rev. xxii. 3. —
15. AiaQjtKqs xa/i/ijc, of the new testament) Here the testa ment is rather urged, than the newness of the testament : comp. ver. 16. — Qavdrov yevoftsvov, by means of death that took place) that is, at the time when the death had taken place. The moment of this (His) death properly divides the Old Testament from the New. — g/£ dtfo'h.vTpuffiv ruv ZKI -y -TrpwrTj diuQrjXV) I7rapa(3dffsuv, for the redemption of the transgressions, that were under the first testament) There is a passage of Paul very like this in Rom. iii. 24, 25. The preposition J-r/, under, not merely denotes the time, but in timates that the first testament had no power of redemption, and that the people of old were more on account of it transgressors. ' A<7ro\vrputfi$, the compound, occurs here : Mrpuas, the simple word, occurs, ver. 12. — Icra/ysX/av, the promise) given to Abraham. — XdfSuffiv, might receive) for formerly they could not. — ol xwtK^vo/) those called, named heirs (ch. iii. 1). — xXypovofAiag, of the inherit ance) An apposite appellation ; for there is an allegory : testa ment, death, inheritance.
16. AiaQfavi) testament. This is the peculiar force of the Greek word, as compared with (above, prae) the Hebrew Wft. The article r\ omitted agrees with the general sentiment ex pressed, as in Gal. iii. 15. — p'epeffQai) be shown, or made good, ful filled (prasstari). The Greek words, tpspsadai, vrpoffpept&fau, ver. 14,
allude to each other. — roO fl/a&^gvou, of the testator) Christ is the testator in respect of us. This agrees with the words of the Lord before His death ; Luke xxii. 29.
17. 'ET/ vz'/.po?c, over [super] the dead) briefly expressed, instead of this expression, over or upon the death of the testators. So LXX. Lev. xxi. 5, lirl vsxpti, over the dead [upon the death of a