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to Heb_13:25
Heb_10:19 to Heb_13:25. The dogmatic investigations are at an end; on the ground thereof the author now applies himself anew to exhortations to the readers. These are at first of the same kind as those before addressed to the readers, and are distinguished from the latter only by their greater copiousness of detail, afterwards, however, assume a greater generality of contents. These are followed by the close of the epistle.
Heb_10:19. Οὖν ] Conclusion from the investigations made chap. 5 onwards.
ἀδελφοί ] Heb_3:1; Heb_3:12, Heb_13:22.
παῤῥησίαν ] not: freedom or authorization (Vatablus, Jac. Cappellus, Grotius, Ernesti, Schulz, Böhme, Stengel, al.), but: firm, joyful confidence.
εἰς τὴν εἴσοδον τῶν ἁγίων ] in respect to entrance into the sanctuary, i.e. of entering into the sanctuary, or heavenly Holy of Holies ( τῶν ἁγίων , of the same import as εἰς τὰ ἅγια , comp. Heb_9:8). Arbitrarily would Heinrichs refer the words to the entering of Jesus, in that he regards εἰς τὴν εἴσοδον τῶν ἁγ . ἐν τῷ αἵμ . Ἰησοῦ as equivalent to εἰς τὴν εἴσοδον Ἰησοῦ ἐν τῷ αἵματι αὐτοῦ , which is impossible.
ἐν τῷ αἵματι Ἰησοῦ ] upon the ground, or by virtue of the blood of Jesus. Belongs to the whole proposition: ἔχοντες παῤῥησίαν εἰς τὴν εἴσοδον τῶν ἁγίων , not merely to εἴσοδον (Akersloot, Storr, Schulz, Böhme, Klee, Paulus, Bleek, Bisping). The passage, Heb_9:25, by no means pleads in favour of the latter mode of apprehending it, since at Heb_9:25, but not in the present passage, ἐν can be understood in the material sense: “with;” the reference of the ἐν αἵματι in the two places is an entirely different one.