Robertson Word Pictures - Hebrews 9:7 - 9:7

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Robertson Word Pictures - Hebrews 9:7 - 9:7


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Alone (monos). Predicate adjective with ho archiereus.

Once in the year (hapax tou eniautou). Once for each year (not pote, at any time) with genitive of time.

Not without blood (ou chōris haimatos). According to Lev 16:14. Not even he could enter the second tent (Holy of Holies) without blood.

The errors of the people (tōn tou laou agnoēmatōn). Late word from agnoeō, not to know (Heb 5:2), only here in the N.T., but in lxx, papyri, and inscriptions where a distinction is drawn between errors (agnoēmata) and crimes (harmartēmata). In Gen 43:12 agnoēma is “an oversight.” But these sins of ignorance (agnoēmata) were sins and called for atonement. See Heb 10:26 for willful sinning.