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Heb_10:15. Μαρτυρεῖ δὲ ἡμῖν καὶ τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ] Moreover, also, the Holy Ghost bears witness to us.
ἡμῖν ] has reference to the Christians generally. Without warrant is it limited by Raphel, Wolf, Baumgarten, and others to the author of the epistle (“the Holy Ghost attests my statement”).
τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον ] for it is the Holy Spirit of God who in the passage indicated speaks by the prophet.
The subject in εἰρηκέναι is God, in that the author makes his own the words λέγει κύριος following in Heb_10:16, although they form an originally constituent part of the citation, in such wise that μετὰ γὰρ τὸ εἰρηκέναι … ἑκείνας forms the former member of the proposition; and to this former member all the rest, from διδοὺς μόμους μου to the end of Heb_10:17, is then opposed by the author as a concluding member, by means of λέγει κύριος . The supposition that the second, or concluding, member of the citation begins only with Heb_10:17, and that thus before this verse a λέγει , an εἶτʼ ἐπιλέγει a τότε εἴρηκεν , or something of the kind is to be supplemented (Primasius, Clarius, Zeger, Schlichting, Jac. Cappellus, Grotius, Limborch, Wolf, Carpzov, Stuart, Heinrichs, Alford, Conybeare, Reuss, Hofmann, and others), is to be rejected,—although the main consideration, about which the author is quite specially concerned, follows only in Heb_10:17,—because it is opposed to the literary accuracy elsewhere prevailing in the Epistle to the Hebrews. For the same reason, too, the ὕστερον λέγει , which several MSS. (but only among those of late date) and some translations add at the close of Heb_10:16, is to be regarded as a gloss.