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How much more (posōi mallon). Instrumental case, “by how much more,” by the measure of the superiority of Christ’s blood to that of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer.
Through the eternal Spirit (dia pneumatos aiōniou). Not the Holy Spirit, but Christ’s own spirit which is eternal as he is. There is thus a moral quality in the blood of Christ not in that of other sacrifices.
Offered himself (heauton prosēnegken). Second aorist active indicative of prospherō (used so often as in Heb 5:1, Heb 5:3; Heb 8:3). The voluntary character of Christ’s death is again emphasized.
Without blemish (amōmon). Old compound adjective (Col 1:22; 1Pe 1:19) as the sacrifice had to be (Exo 29:1; Lev 1:3, Lev 1:10).
Shall cleanse from conscience (kathariei tēn suneidēsin humōn). Future active indicative of katharizō. Some MSS. have hēmōn (our). The old Greek used kathairō, not katharizō (in inscriptions for ceremonial cleansing, Deissmann, Bible Studies, pp. 216f.), for cleansing.
From dead works (apo nekrōn ergōn). As in Heb 6:1. “A pause might be made before ergōn, from dead - (not bodies but) works.”