is wont to stand or standeth, ver. 11. The sacrifice of the mass is inconsistent with sitting at the right hand of GOD : for the sacrifice of Christ is neither continued nor repeated in the mass. The apostle not only urges the identity, but also the word «Va J, once, once for ally concerning the sacrifice of Christ, in antithesis to the Levitical sacrifices, often offered, although they were the same. A sacrifice which is often repeated, although it be the same, does not satisfy or make atonement to GOD. Not only is the body of Christ one, but also His offering is one, and that too inseparable from His passion : ch. ix. 26. Every later oblation shows that the former is of no value ; every former one proves that the later one is superfluous : ch. x. 2, 18.
13. ''Exdexopevos, expecting) By this word the knowledge of our exalted Lord is not denied, Rev. i. 1 : comp. Mark xiii. 32 : but His subjection to the Father is intimated ; Acts iii. 20. Sitting and at rest, He expects. — o't e^Qpoi auroS, His enemies) whose strength consists in sin.
14. M/a yap vpoffpopa, for. by one offering) Or should we rather read pia yap Kpoopopa, for one offering ? * For the language is framed (moves on) in the abstract also in ver. 11 ; and with the same verb rsXs/oDv, to perfect, which here sustains the Apodosis, it was similarly framed, ch. vii. 19, ix. 9, x. 1. — yap, for) The as signing of a reason (^Etiology, Append.) is to be referred to (has reference to) ver. 12. — ro-jc, ayiafyp'evovs, those wlio were sanctified) A participle of the imperfect tense. For this sanctification was accomplished in the very act of offering the sacrifice, ver. 10.
15. K«/) also. There is added, not a testimony to the arguments ; for the testimonies even preceded the latter ; but /juxprvpZiv to /j,aprvpovvra$ [the Holy Ghost witnessing in addi tion to those who bear witness]. Paul had given the testi mony of the Father to the priesthood of Christ, ch. v. 10, and of the Son, ch. x. 5 ; now also that of the Holy Spirit : the testi mony of each everywhere carrying with it the same conclusion ; ver. 18. Look back to the General View (Synopsis) of the epistle. And he presently afterwards repeats in his admonition this re ference to the Holy Trinity, ver. 29, note. — psra, after) The verb
1 The Germ. Vers., following the reasons assigned by the Gnomon, pre fers this reading, which was considered of equal authority by the margin of both Ed.— E. B.