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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 9:17 - 9:17
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after - literally, “over,” as we say “upon the death of the testators”; not as Tholuck, “on the condition that slain sacrifices be there,” which the Greek hardly sanctions.
otherwise - “seeing that it is never availing” [Alford]. Bengel and Lachmann read with an interrogation, “Since, is it ever in force (surely not) while the testator liveth?”