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Heb 9:14. Τὸ αἷμα) The blood, and death: see the following verses.-διὰ Πνεύματος αἰωνίου, by the eternal Spirit) See Luk 4:18 : and comp. Rom 1:4; Rom 15:16. The Spirit is opposed to the condition of irrational animals, Heb 9:13. The epithet eternal is understood from Heb 9:12; Heb 9:15, ch. Heb 7:16, and is opposed to the heifer reduced to ashes [ashes of a heifer].-ἄμωμον, without spot) Superior as contrasted with every Levitical victim.-καθαριεῖ, shall purge) It corresponds to καθαρότητα, purifying, Heb 9:13. So Heb 9:22-23, ch. Heb 10:23, Heb 1:3. It is put in the future as an antithesis to the present, ἁγιάζει, sanctifies, Levitically, Heb 9:13.-ἀπὸ) ἀπὸ, εἰς, from, to, denote things contrary.-νεκρῶν ἔργων, from dead works) Things dead most of all defile. The antithesis is ζῶντι, living. The power of sin and death was abolished by the blood of Christ.-εἰς τὸ λατρεύειν, to serve) for ever, in a manner most blessed and truly sacerdotal, [Heb 9:12; Rev 22:3.-V. g.]