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The efficacy of Christ's sacrifice is bound up with a covenant. His priesthood involves a new and a better covenant. See Heb 8:6-13. That covenant involves his death.
For this cause (διὰ τοῦτο)
Indicating the close relation between the cleansing power of Christ's blood and the new covenant.
Mediator of the new testament (διαθήκης καινῆς μεσίτης)
For the new testament rend. a new covenant. See on next verse. For μεσίτης mediator, see on Gal 3:19, Gal 3:20.
By means of death (θανάτου γενομένου)
Rend. a death having taken place.
For the redemption of the transgressions (εἰς ἀπολύτρωσιν τῶν παραβάσεων)
The phrase redemption of transgressions (that is, from transgressions) only here. Ἀπολύτρωσις in N.T. mostly absolutely: the redemption, or your redemption, or simply redemption. Twice with genitive of that which is redeemed, Rom 8:23; Eph 1:14. Only once in lxx, Dan 4:32. For παράβασις transgression, see on Rom 2:23.
Under the first testament (ἐπὶ)
On the basis of: estimated according to the standard of the provisions of the first covenant, and to be atoned for in the way which it prescribed. By this expression he emphasizes the insufficiency of every other atoning provision, selecting the system which represented the most elaborate and complete atonement for sin prior to Christ. The intimation is in the same direction with that of the phrase through an eternal spirit - that the ideal redemption must be eternal.
They which are called (οἱ κεκλημένοι)
Without regard to nationality. The scope of the new covenant was wider than that of the old. Comp. Act 2:39. In Heb 3:1, the readers are addressed as “partakers of a heavenly calling,” which corresponds with “eternal inheritance” here. Those who obtain this inheritance are designated as “called.” See Eph 1:18; 1Th 2:12; 1Th 5:24; 1Pe 3:9.
Of eternal inheritance (τῆς αἰωνίου κληρονομίας)
Rend. “the eternal inheritance”: something recognized as a fact. For κληρονομία inheritance, see on 1Pe 1:4, and comp. Eph 1:14. The whole statement implies that the provisions of the Levitical system were inadequate to procure and insure full salvation.