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bulls ....The oujdev seems to be due to the preceding ouj ceir. as if the sentence
had run
ouj dia; ceirop. ... oujde; dij ai{mato" .... The goat was the offering for the
people (Lev. 16:15): the bullock for the High-priest himself (Lev. 16:11). The plural generalises the thought. The words used in the LXX. version of Leviticus are
movsco" and civmaro" . Symmachus and Aquila seem to have used travgo" for civmaro" . The phrase travgoi kai; tau'roi (Heb. 9:13) gives the form in which the reference to animal victims would be popularly expressed. Compare Ps. 49:13; Is. 1:11 (elsewhere movsco" seems to be always used in the LXX.).
dia; de; tou' ijd. ai{m. ... ta; a{gia ] but through His own blood (He) entered
once for all into the Holy place
, the immediate Presence of God in heaven (see Heb. 9:8 note).

The use of diav as marking the means but not defining the mode ( metav ) is significant when taken in connexion with v. 7 ( ouj cwriv" ). The earthly High- priest took with him the material blood: Christ ‘through His own blood’ entered into the Presence of God, but we are not justified in introducing any material interpretations of the manner in which He made it efficacious. Comp. Heb. 13:12 dia; tou' ijdivou ai{mato" : Acts 20:28 h}n periepoihvsato dia; tou' ai{mato" tou' ijdivou .
ejfavpax ] See Heb. 7:27 note. Christ did not need (like the Jewish High- priest) a double entrance, even as He did not need to repeat His entrance. One entrance left the way open for ever. The ‘veil was rent’ (Matt. 27:51). There was no longer any obstacle interposed between the worshipper—for all are now priests (Apoc. 1:6)—and the Object of his worship.

Heb. 9:12 b. A third element in the absolute supremacy of Christ's High-priest-hood lies in the abiding efficacy of His One priestly act. He obtained an eternal Redemption in contrast with the limited, recurrent, redemption of the yearly Atonement.
aijwn. luvtr. euJr. ] having obtained eternal redemption , Vulg. aeterna inventa redemptione , O. L. aeterna expiatione reperta. In combination with eijsh'lqen, euJravmeno" may express a coincident (comp. Heb. 2:10 note), or a precedent fact: ‘Christ entered...therein obtaining’ or ‘Christ entered...having already obtained.’ The choice between these senses will be decided by the meaning given to ‘redemption.’ If ‘redemption’ is the initial work, the conquest of death (Heb. 2:14 f.), then this was completed in the Passion and Resurrection; but it seems more natural to find the fulness of the word satisfied in the Triumph of the Ascension. Compare Additional Note on luvtrwsi" .

The form euJravmeno" is found here only in the N. T. The force of the middle voice (compare Heb. 1:3 poihsavmeno" ) is that of ‘having obtained as the issue of personal labour’ directed to this end.

Chrysostom sees an emphatic sense in the word: sfovdra tw'n ajpovrwn h\n kai; tw'n para; prosdokivan pw'" dia; mia'" eijsovdou aijwnivan luvtrwsin eu{rato .

And so Theophylact: o{ra de; kai; to; euJrovmeno", wJ" para; prosdokivan genomevnou tou' pravgmato" ou{tw tauvth/ th'/ levxei ejcrhvsato . a[poron ga;r h\n to; th'" ejleuqeriva" hJmi'n, ajllj aujto;" eu|re tou'to .

OEcumenius also touches upon the voice: euJravmeno" ... oujc eJautw'/, pw'" ga;r oJ ajnamavrthto" ; ajlla; tw'/ law'/ aujtou' : h ejpeidh; kefalh; th'" ajnqrwpovthto"


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