John Bengel Commentary - Hebrews 9:26 - 9:26

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John Bengel Commentary - Hebrews 9:26 - 9:26


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Heb 9:26. Ἐπεὶ ἔδει, for then it would have been necessary) Here it is taken for granted that Christ suffered for the sins committed from the beginning of the world: Heb 9:15. Christ in the beginning already was He who is according to the divine nature.[53] Philo shows that the high priest of the Hebrews offered sacrifices for the whole human race, de mon., p. 637.-παθεῖν, that He should often have suffered) Therefore the offering is not (there can be no oblation) without suffering.-ἅπαξ, once) This once is absolute, being shadowed forth in the once, relative, which was Levitical: Heb 9:7.-ἐπὶ συντελείᾳ, at the consummation) when sin had reached its height; comp. note to Joh 1:10.-τῶν αἰώνων, of ages) The beginning of these ages is not to be computed from the time of Moses, but from the foundation of the world: comp. ch. Heb 1:2, note: and therefore the consummation here is not the end of the Old Testament, but of the world. Ἡ συντέλεια τοῦ αἰῶνος, is the very consummation of the world or age (seculi), a phrase which we often find in Matthew: ἡ συντέλεια τῶν αἰώνων in this passage includes times nearer our own, as being in the plural number. The sacrifice of Christ divides the age of the world into two portions, of which the first is certainly not shorter than the second.-ἉΜΑΡΤΊΑς, of sin) The singular, with great force.[54]-πεφανέρωται, has been manifested) in the world.

[53] Beng. seems to mean, that Christ from the very beginning sustained His character as the Word of God, Joh 1:1-a title implying His divine nature, at the same time implying also His coming into the world, as seat by the Father, to be its Saviour.-ED.

[54] All the sins of all men of every age are regarded as one mass laid on Christ. Sin is here put in the abstract, to express that He destroyed sin itself, as well as atoned for actual sins.-ED.