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dia; th'" prosfora'" tou' swvmato" jIhsou' Cristou' , which can only refer to the offering on the Cross.

The contrast of tenses in prosfevrh/ here and prosenevgkh/ Heb. 8:3 is clearly marked.
w{sper ...] An annually repeated sacrifice was the necessary means for obtaining the atoning blood in virtue of which the Levitical High-priest entered the Sanctuary year by year.
ejn ai{mati ajllotrivw/ ] The use of different prepositions in this connexion will repay study: v. 7 ouj cwri;" ai{mato" , v. 12 dij ai{mato" . For the use of ejn compare v. 22 ejn ai{mati kaq. : 10:19 ejn tw'/ ai{m. jIhsou' : 13:20 ejn ai{m. diaqhvkh" aijwnivou : and in other Books: Rom. 3:25 o}n proevq. iJlast. .. ejn tw'/ ai{m. : v. 9 dikaiwqevnte" ejn tw'/ ai{m. : Eph. 2:13 ejgenhvqhte ejggu;" ejn tw'/ ai{m. tou' cr. (1:7 ejn w|/ ... dia; tou' ai{mato" ): Apoc. 1:5 luvsanti ... ejn tw'/ ai{m. : v. 9 hjgovrasa" ... ejn tw'/ ai{m. : 7:14 ejleuvkanan ... ejn tw'/ ai{m.

The High-priest was, as it were, surrounded, enveloped, in the life sacrificed and symbolically communicated. Christ Himself living through death came before God.

Heb. 9:26. If the one offering of Christ is (as has been shewn from its nature) sufficient to atone for the sins of the whole world, then it is evident that its efficacy reaches through all time past and future. If it had not been sufficient, then it must have been repeated. It is assumed that it is God's will that complete atonement should be made for sin; and if He had willed that this should be made in detail and by successive acts, occasion must have arisen in earlier ages for Christ's sufferings, a thought in itself inconceivable. The virtue of Christ's work for the past in the eternal counsel of God is taken for granted.
ejpeiv ] Vulg. alioquin, since in that case, else. See Heb. 9:17, Heb. 10:2; Rom. 3:6; 1 Cor. 5:10, & c.
e[dei ] For the force of dei' see Heb. 2:1; and for the absence of a[n 1 Cor. 5:10 ejpei; wjfeivlete . Winer, pp. 353 f.
paqei'n ] See Heb. 13:12 note; 2:9. The word is not used in the Epistles of St Paul for the Death (‘the Passion’) of Christ. Comp. Acts 1:3; (3:18); 17:3. ajpo; katabolh'" kovsmou ] Vulg. ab origine mundi. Compare Heb. 4:3 note. A prospect is opened beyond the beginning of the Mosaic system. The divine counsel had a universal scope.
nuni; dev ] but now , as things actually are, once for all, at the close of the ages, hath He been manifested to disannul (set at naught) sin by the sacrifice of Himself , Vulg. nunc autem semel in consummatione saeculorum ad destitutionem peccati per hostiam suam apparuit. Each element in this sentence brings out some contrast between the work of Christ and that of the Levitical High-priests. Their sacrifices were repeated year by year during a long period of preparation: His sacrifice was offered once for all at the close of the succession of ages. They by their action called sins to mind (Heb. 10:3): He annulled sin. They provided typical atonement through the blood of victims: He provided an absolute atonement by the sacrifice of Himself. With them the most impressive fact was the entrance into the darkness in which the Divine Presence was shrouded: with Him the manifestation on earth, still realised as an abiding reality, brought the Divine Presence near to men.

Generally it is made plain that Christ accomplished all that the Levitical


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