Hebrews Ix. 10. 425

spends to the Hebrew njinn w. The LXX. translate njin xox- x/voi>, W xXuarbv dmXovv, double spun (twined), from its form : the apostle terms it from its material (wool) ; scarlet colour, viz. as being like blood. — ftiftXiov) Many, and the Latins too from the Vulgate, construe this word with sppdvnffs, he sprinkled; but it should evidently be construed with XafSuv, having taken, as Ex. xxiv. 7, xa/ Xa[3uv rb /3//3x/ov r^g &a$?jx»j£, and having taken the book of the covenant. There is an elegance in the conjunction, rb aTpa avro n rb /3//3x/ov, as appears by comparing those words, rovro rb «///,« rr,g diad?r/,riz ; that in this ceremony the blood may be shown by itself; the testament, by the showing of the book ; and that gyxawc^oc, the dedication, may be perfected by that double exhi bition (showing) : avrb, itself, is added, because the testament described in the book, was of more importance than that blood. Tg does not always refer to the following xa/, ver. 1 ; John ii. 15, where the n connects the discourse rather with what goes before, than with what follows : also the sheep and the oxen : comp. moreover Acts xxvi. 1 1 ; wherefore it is not necessary here to construe avro ri rb /3/jSX/on Kai tfdvra rbv Xabv sppdvnffe. The other things which are here mentioned by the apostle, and yet are not found in the 24th chap, of Exod., may be derived from other passages ; but respecting the sprinkling of the book, which not withstanding, if true, would constitute a very large portion of that ceremony, we find nothing in all the books of Moses. Furthermore, if the book had been sprinkled, and if the apostle had spoken of that sprinkling, he would have joined it, not with the sprinkling of the people, but with the sprinkling of the taber nacle and the vessels, and therefore of the altar ; comp. Van Hoeke, p. 190. See, however, Jun. 1. 1209, 1. 54. But indeed it was not befitting that the book itself should be even sprinkled, for the, book, containing the word of GOD, represented there GOD Him self, as Flacius in Gloss, says; where, however, he is of opinion that the book was also sprinkled. No doubt the tabernacle along with the vessels [the tabernacle being at that very time adapted to the altar, Ex. xxiv. 6-8, xxv. 8. — V. g.] needed purification, ver. 21; Lev. xvi. 16, 19, 20, 33; 2 Chron. xxix. 21 ; but the book, or the word of GOD, did not need it. And since these things are so, yet x«/ before ndvra is not only no disadvantage, but has much elegance. For the sentence is copulative : KAI Trdvra r