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Heb_13:21. Καταρτίσαι ὑμᾶς ἐν παντὶ ἔργῳ ἀγαθῷ ] cause that ye become ἄρτιοι , ready or perfect, in every good work. Oecumenius: πληρώσαι , τελειώσαι . That, for the rest, καταρτίσαι is optative, and not, as Kurtz strangely supposes, imperative aorist middle, is self-evident.
εἰς τὸ ποιῆσαι ] Statement of the design, not of the effect (Schlichting and others): that ye may accomplish.
τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ ] His will, i.e. that which is morally good and salutary. There is certainly comprehended under the expression the faithful continuance in Christianity.
ποιῶν ἑν ὑμῖν τὸ εὐάρεστον ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ] working in you (wrongly Böhme: among you) that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Christ Jesus. Modal definition to καταρτίσαι .
τὸ εὐάρεστον ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ ] Comp. 2Co_5:9; Rom_12:1; Rom_14:18; Eph_5:10; Php_4:18.
διὰ Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ ] belongs neither to καταρτίσαι (Bloomfield) nor to τὸ εὐάρεστον ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ (Grotius, Hammond, Michaelis, Storr, and others), but to ποιῶν .
ᾧ ἡ δόξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας ] sc. ἔστω
ἡ δόξα ] the glory due to Him.
The doxology is referred by Limborch, Wetstein, Bengel, Chr. Fr. Schmid, Ernesti, Delitzsch, Alford, Kluge, Woerner, and others, to God; and in favour of this it may be urged that in the wish of blessing ὁ θεός forms the main subject. More correctly, however, shall we refer it, partly on account of the immediate joining of ᾧ to Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ , partly on account of the design of the whole epistle, to warn the readers, who had become wavering in their faith in Christ, against relapse into Judaism, with Calvin, Jac. Cappellus, Grotius, Owen, Böhme, Stuart, Bleek, Stengel, Tholuck, Bisping, Riehm (Lehrbegr. des Hebräerbr. p. 286), Maier, Moll, and the majority, to Christ.