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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 7:11 - 7:11
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perfection - absolute: “the bringing of man to his highest state, namely, that of salvation and sanctification.”
under it - The reading in the oldest manuscripts is, “Upon it (that is, on the ground of it as the basis, the priest having to administer the law, Mal 2:7 : it being presupposed) the people (Heb 9:19, ‘all the people’) have received the law (the Greek is perfect, not aorist tense; implying the people were still observing the law).”
what further need - (Heb 8:7). For God does nothing needless.
another - rather as Greek, “that a different priest (one of a different order) should arise (anew, Heb 7:15).
not be called - Greek, “not be said (to be) after the order of Aaron,” that is, that, when spoken of in the Psa 110:4, “He is not said to be (as we should expect, if the Aaronic priesthood was perfect) after the order of Aaron.”