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To the uttermost (εἰς τὸ παντελὲς)
Παντελής all complete, only here and Luk 13:11. Not perpetually, but perfectly.
Come unto God (προσερχομένους τῷ θεῷ)
The verb oP., and in this sense only in Hebrews and 1Pe 2:4. See a peculiar usage in 1Ti 6:3. Comp. ἐγγίζειν to draw near, Jam 4:8; Heb 7:19.
To make intercession for them (εἰς τὸ ἐντυγχάνειν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν)
The verb only here in Hebrews. Comp. ὑπερεντυγχάνειν, Rom 8:26, see note. See also on ἐντεύξεις supplications, 1Ti 2:1. The idea is not intercession, but intervention. It includes every form of Christ's identifying himself with human interests. The attempt has been made to trace this idea to Philo, who alludes to the λόγος ἱκέτης the supplicant Logos, and the λόγος παράκλητος the advocate-Logos. But the Logos is not treated by Philo as a divine-human personality intervening for men, but as a poetical personification allegorically considered. In one instance the suppliant Logos is the cry of the oppressed Israelites; in another, Moses, as the allegorical representative of the universal reason of mankind. It represents certain functions of human reason and speech. Again, the suppliant is the visible Cosmos striving to realize its ideal.