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Perfection (teleiōsis). Abstract substantive of teleioō. More the act than the quality or state (teleiotēs, Heb 6:1). The condition is of the second class, “if there were perfection, etc.” The Levitical priesthood failed to give men “a perfectly adequate relation to God” (Moffatt).
Priesthood (hierosunēs). Old word, in N.T. only here, Heb 7:12, Heb 7:24. Cf. hieretia in Heb 7:5. The adjective Leueitikē occurs in Philo.
Received the law (nenomothetētai). Perfect passive indicative of nomotheteō, old compound to enact law (nomos, tithēmi), to furnish with law (as here), only other N.T. example in Heb 8:6.
What further need was there? (tis eti chreia). No copula expressed, but it would normally be ēn an, not just ēn: “What need still would there be?”
Another priest (heteron hierea). Of a different line (heteron), not just one more (allon). Accusative of general reference with the infinitive anistasthai (present middle of anistēmi intransitive).
And not to be reckoned (kai ou legesthai). The negative ou belongs rather to the descriptive clause than just to the infinitive.