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Sacrifice. Hebrew. zabach. App-43. Quoted in Heb_10:5-9.
offering. Hebrew. minchah. App-43. Compare Heb_10:5-7. Note the four great offerings here, and separately: Psa_40:6= any sacrifice; -6-, the meal offering; -6-, burnt offering; -6, sin offering (compare Psalm 22); and inPs. 69 =the trespass offering.
opened = digged. Kal Pret. of karah, = opening by digging, or boring. Note the occurrences: Gen_50:5. Num_24:18. 2Ch_16:14 (margin) Psa_7:15 (margin); Psa_40:6; Psa_57:6; Psa_119:85. Jer_18:22, Jer_18:22, referring to the opening of the ear to hear; for which, in Isa_50:5 (compare Isa_48:8), another word (pathah) is used with the meaning of opening (as of a door). Note the obedience, which is the point emphasized by the alternation in Psa_40:6. | Sacrifice and offering. Not desired. | Mine ears hast Thou digged. (Pos.) | Burnt-offering and sin-offering. Not required. | Lo, I come to do. (Pos.) Obedience is the great truth here conveyed; and, on the same grounds as in 1Sa_15:22. Jer_7:22, Jer_7:23. Heb_10:5, is not a quotation of this verse: it is what Messiah "said" when He came into the world to perform what Psa_40:6 prophesied, when He had become Incarnate, and could say "I am come". He must change the word "ears" for the "body", in which that obedience was to be accomplished, and He had a right to change the words, and thus adapt them. It is not a question of quotation, or of the Septuagint versus the Hebrew text. Note the heaping up of these expressions to emphasize the obedience, and observe the alternation of positive and negative in verses: Psa_40:9, Psa_40:10.
hast = didst.