membrance : ver. 17. — xar s\navrbv, yearly) An Epanalepsis ;T comp. ver. 1. He is speaking chiefly of the solemn yearly sacrifices.
4. 'Apa/pg/i>, to take away) Ktpirt.tTv,2 to remove entirely; ver. 11. In the writings of Moses, great effects are ascribed to these elementary ordinances of worship, in order that it might appear that it is not in themselves that these have so great efficacy.
5. E/ffep%6fiivoe tig rbv xoff/tov, when He comes into the world) In the 40th Psalm, the entrance of the Messiah into the world is set before us. The tabernacle itself was part of the world, ch. ix. 1 ; and it is here called the world, because the sacrifice of the Messiah extends much more widely than the Levitical sacri fices, reaching, as through all times, so through all the world, which is claimed for Him as His, Ps. xl. 10, because He is its heir. The word, ejffepxopevos, entering, is elicited from qxu, I am come, and is represented by it, ver. 7. — Qvffiav — ovx svooK^ffag. — rov irofiffai, b Qtbg, rb 6'eXripa ffov) LXX., in the psalrn now quoted, Qvfficcv — OVK styrqffaf — rov iroirjffai TO QsXqfAa, ffov, o ®sog /AOV, q(3ov\fi&qv, Kcti rbv vciftov ffov sv /u'sffu rye xoiXiag /AOV. The apostle joins those words, rov noiqffai, b @ibg, rb d'e\npa. ffov, which had been separated from those following, with those going before, which relate to the same thing, as the words, "forty years, in the wilderness," ch. iii. 9. — ffZj^a ds xarypriffu poi) Heb., thou hast bored my ears (comp. Exod. xxi. 6), namely, that I may subserve Thy will with perfect love ; comp. Is. 1. 5. The slave, whose ears were bored, was claimed by the master whom he loved with his whole body as his property. Sam. Petitus, in var. lect. c. 28, ascribes the Greek translation of the Prophets and Psalms to the Essenes, and he ascribes to the Essenes this phrase, Thou hast fitted or prepared for me a body; for he says, that among the Essenes there was no slave, but that they had bodies or col leges, whose members served and obeyed one another. The favourers of liberty, however strong in that cause, might still retain the reading, ears ; but the apostle maintains the proper
1 See Append. The same word in beginning of the preceding and in the end of the following member : or antecedent repeated after a parenthesis. —ED.
2 Tlfpiaiptiv is to remove on every side (^spi) and in ever)7 respect : pror- sus tollere. ' A(pcttps'ivt to take ojfor away. — ED.