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Through his own blood (dia tou idiou haimatos). This is the great distinction between Christ as High Priest and all other high priests. They offer blood (Heb 9:7), but he offered his own blood. He is both victim and High Priest. See the same phrase in Heb 13:12; Act 20:28.
Once for all (ephapax). In contrast to the repeated (annual) entrances of the Levitical high priests (Heb 9:7).
Into the holy place (eis ta hagia). Here, as in Heb 9:8, Heb 9:24 heaven itself.
Having obtained (heuramenos). First aorist middle (indirect) participle of heuriskō, simultaneous action with eisēlthen, and by or of himself “as the issue of personal labour directed to this end” (Westcott). The value of Christ’s offering consists in the fact that he is the Son of God as well as the Son of man, that he is sinless and so a perfect sacrifice with no need of an offering for himself, and that it is voluntary on his part (Joh 10:17). Lutrōsis (from lutroō) is a late word for the act of ransoming (cf. lutron, ransom), in O.T. only here and Luk 1:68; Luk 2:38. But apolutrōsis elsewhere (as in Luk 21:28; Rom 3:24; Heb 9:15; Heb 11:35). For “eternal” (aiōnian, here feminine form) see Heb 6:2. The author now turns to discuss the better sacrifice (9:13-10:18) already introduced.