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Are sharers in flesh and blood (kekoinōnēken haimatos kai sarkos). The best MSS. read “blood and flesh.” The verb is perfect active indicative of koinōneō, old verb with the regular genitive, elsewhere in the N.T. with the locative (Rom 12:13) or with en or eis. “The children have become partners (koinōnoi) in blood and flesh.”
Partook (metesche). Second aorist active indicative of metechō, to have with, a practical synonym for koinōneō and with the genitive also (tōn autōn). That he might bring to naught (hina katargēsēi). Purpose of the incarnation clearly stated with hina and the first aorist active subjunctive of katargeō, old word to render idle or ineffective (from kata, argos), causative verb (25 times in Paul), once in Luke (Luk 13:7), once in Hebrews (here). “By means of death” (his own death) Christ broke the power (kratos) of the devil over death (paradoxical as it seems), certainly in men’s fear of death and in some unexplained way Satan had sway over the realm of death (Zec 3:5.). Note the explanatory tout' estin (that is) with the accusative after it as before it. In Rev 12:7 Satan is identified with the serpent in Eden, though it is not done in the Old Testament. See Rom 5:12; Joh 8:44; Joh 14:30; Joh 16:11; 1Jo 3:12. Death is the devil’s realm, for he is the author of sin. “Death as death is no part of the divine order” (Westcott).