The Pulpit Commentary — Hebrews — Section 274

original Hebrew text, ft fa still snob u to plishment of sanctification In the 110nRe leave the general argument intact. mteuded, the perfect participle was used ; Vere. 8-10.-Saying above that Saoriftoes here the subjectB of the same eanctiflcatil)n and offerings and whole burnt oft'erings and are denoted, the accomplishment being oft"orings for sin thou wouldest not, neither expressed by 'l'ET<>..,[r,i,c, ( cf. ol a-yu1.(oµ.evo,, hadst pleasure therein (suoh as are oft'ered oh. ii. 11). The meaning of TETeA,fo,,,, aooording to the Law); then hath he said, ("bath perfected") may be taken as ruled Lo, I oome to do thy will ; ,.e. he has me.de by Tovs a-y,u(oµlvovs: bath perfected them as this second assertion while making the first a.-yfo,, done all that was required for their alao. Tho purpose of thus putting it is to being such, without any need of any further ahow the connection between the two as- offering (of. supra, eh. x. 1). aertions ; that fulfilment of God's will is Vera. 15-18.-And the Holy Ghost e.Iao 1poken of as a substitute for sacrifices, whose testifieth to DI : for after that he ha. th ea.id, inutility in themeelvea had been declared. This is the oovenant that I will make with Yee; he te.keth away the first, that he may them after those days, 1a.ith the Lord; I will establiah the eeoond. In the which will (the put my laws into their hearts, and in their Divine will, willing our redemption through minds will I write them; (then 111\ith he), Obrist, and perfectly fulfilled by Lim) we And their Bins and iniquities will I re- have been sanctified through the offering of member no more. Now where remission the body of l eeue Christ onoe for all. For of these is, there is no more offering for sin. the sense to be attached to the verb a:yu:!(w The apodosis to" after that he hath said," not 1ee under oh. ii. 11. It is not our progree- distinctly marked in the Greek or in the Bive BBnlltification by the Holy Ghost thu.t A.V., is denoted in the above rendering by is intended, but the hallowing eft"ected for "then saith he" before ver. 17. Another na once for all, as denoted by the perfect view is that it begins earlier in the sentence, participle 11-yu,~µ.•vo,. being introduced by" eaith the Lord," whd1 The remainder of this concluding sum- occurs in the quotation from Jeremiah. But mary (vere. 11-19) serves to weave together this is improbable, since (1) words in the quotation itself could not well be intended the various threads of the foregoing argu• to be understood as the quoter's own; (2) ment and emphasize the result. the quotation down to ver. 17 is continuo11s, Vers. 11-13.-And every priest indeed whereas the citatinn of ver. 17 is in the Btandeth daily ministering and offering original passage of Jeremiah separated from oftentimea the same saoriftoee, which can the preceding one; (3) the logical conclu- never take away Bins : but he, having sion intended to be drawn requires ver. 17 offered one eaoriftoe for sinl for ever, eat to be the apodoeis. For the writer's pur• down on the right hand of God; from hence- pose in referring once more to Jeremlah's forth expeoting till his enemies be me.de the prediction of the" new covenant" is to show footstool of his feet. Thus with the one from it the completeness and finality of perfectly acoo.mpliehed and for ever availing Christ's atonement; and this, he ..rguea, 1&Crifice is brought into connection, as its follows from this characteristic of the "new result, the fulfilment in Christ for rua.n of covenant " being added to the previom the ideal of Pa. viiL 6 (which was set forth description of it-" Their sins Bll.d iniqui- In eh. ii. 5-10; see the remarks there Dell will I remember no more." made), and also of the SoN's exaltation to the right hand of God, declared in Ps. ex. (referred to in eh. i. 13, and brought fully CB. :r.. 19-END. Into view in oh. viii. 1, after the chapter HORTATORY POBTION OJ' TBE EPISTLL about Melohizedek). Be it observed that The groat doctrine of Christ's eternal the priesthood "after the order of Mel- ehizedek" in itself implied this exaltation, priesthood having been led up to, estab- which was in fact inferred from it. For the lished by argument, and at length fully ex- priesthood after this order, having been pounded, it remains only to press the pra.ctict1l 1hown to be eternal and unchangeable, was result of II belief in it in alternate tones of further seen, from Pe. ex., to be conjoined to the eternal roynlty at God's right hand. encouragement and of warning. Ver. 14.-For by one offe1ing he hath We have seen that, even in the earlier perfected for ever them that are sanctified. chapters, hortatory passages were freque11tly The tense of the participle m-yu,(oµ.evovs, interposed, showing the purpose all along Instead of 11-y1uffµ.evovs, as in ver. 10, does in the writer's mind. In the cenlral and not involve a different sense of the verb, deepest part of the argume11t (eh. vii. 1- viz. the ord inarv one associated with the word "so.notify.'; When it was necessary x. 19) there were none, close anu uninter- tA, express by the word itself the acoom- rupted attention to the course of though~  266 THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS. [ OH, X, 1-39.