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And the heavens are works of Thy hands.

11 They shall perish, but Thou continuest; And they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

12 And as a mantle shalt Thou roll them up , As a garment, and they shall be changed: But Thou art the same, and Thy years shall not fail. Heb. 1:10. kaiv ...] The connexion of this passage with the former is very close although it introduces a new idea. Comp. Acts 1:20. The conjunction carries with it the levgei pro;" to;n uiJovn of vv. 8, 9. God through His Spirit so speaks in the Psalmist that words not directly addressed to Christ find their fulfilment in Him.

Su;...Kuvrie ...] It has been already noticed that the Suv is brought forward by the writer of the Epistle, and the Kuvrie added to the original text in the

LXX. The addition corresponds with the omission of the divine Name ( lae ,

H445) in v. 24 owing to a false rendering, but it is significant as definitely connecting the thought of divine immutability with the thought of the divine revelation consummated in the Incarnation.
katj ajrcav" ] Vulg. in principio , O. L. initiis. The phrase is a wrong

rendering of : ynIp'l] ( e[mprosqen Judg. 1:10, 11, 23, & c.). It occurs again Ps.

119:152 (118:152) as the rendering of : d<q&, , H7710; and is found in Philo and

classical writers.

11. aujtoiv ] The heavens are taken as representing the whole visible universe.
ajpolou'ntai ] The idea, as it is afterwards developed (Heb. 12:26 ff.), is of change, transfiguration, and not of annihilation: Is. 51:6, 16; 65:17; 66:22; 2 Pet. 3:13; Apoc. 20:11. Thus Theophylact: mei'zovn ti th'" dhmiourgiva" hj/nivxato, th;n metaschmavtisin tou' kovsmou, ajllaghvsontai ga;r pavnta ajpo; th'" fqora'" eij" ajfqarsivan .
diamevnei" ] Latt. permanebis ( diamenei'" ). The present is more expressive. The compound marks continuance throughout some period or crisis suggested by the context: Luke 1:22; 22:28; 2 Pet. 3:4; Gal. 2:5. pavnte" ] The thought appears to be of sphere succeeding sphere in increasing purity and therefore in increasing permanence: but all alike are subject to time and to decay.
palaiwqhvsontai ] Heb. 8:13; Luke 12:33; Is. 50:9; 51:6; Ecclus. 14:17. Heb. 1:12. peribovlaion ] a mantle. The word suggests a costly robe: Judg. 8:26 (A) TWN PERIBOLAIVWN TWN PORFURWN TWN EJPI TOI '" BASILEUSI M ADIAVM . E ZEK . 27:7. C OMP . 1 C OR . 11:15.

ELIVXEI " ] T HE SUBSTITUTION OF THIS WORD FOR THE NATURAL RENDERING AJLLAVXEI " MAY HAVE BEEN DUE TO A REFERENCE TO I S . 34:4 ELIGHVSETAI O OUJRANO ;" W J" BIBLIVON . I N THE ORIGINAL THE VERB IS REPEATED ( 5U LØJYW 9 PEYLIJ }T ).

O AUJTOV " ] T HE ORIGINAL IS SIMPLY ‘T HOU ART H E .’ C OMP . I S . 41:4; 43:10; 46:4; 48:12; D EUT . 32:39 ( EJGWV EIJMI ).

S EE H EB . 13:8 NOTE .
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EB . 1:13, 14. T HE SUPERIOR DIGNITY OF THE S ON AS SEATED IN R OYAL M AJESTY ASSURED OF TRIUMPH (‘ HAVING MADE PURIFICATION ...H E SAT DOWN ...’). T HE COMPARISON OF THE S ON WITH ANGELS IS COMPLETED BY THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE IDEA CONTAINED IN THE FACT OF THE S ESSION OF THE S ON


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