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Heb_5:3. Logical consequence from the second half of Heb_5:2 The words form a merely incidental observation. They would be on that account better regarded as an independent statement than, with de Wette, Delitzsch, Hofmann (Schriftbew, II. 1, 2 Aufl. p. 397), and Woerner, thought of as still dependent on ἐπεί , Heb_5:2.
διʼ αὐτήν ] sc. ἀσθένειαν . Quite untrue is the assertion that the feminine is used Hebraistically instead of the neuter, which even Bengel and others, with a mistaken appeal to Mat_21:42 (see Meyer ad loc.), still hold to be possible.
ὀφείλει ] Reference not, as is supposed by Böhme and Hofmann, l.c., to the precept in the law of Moses (Lev_4:3; Lev_9:7; Lev_16:6, al.), but, as Heb_2:17, to the inner necessity arising from the nature of the case. Non-natural the view of Delitzsch and Moll, that both alike are intended.
προσφέρειν ] stands, as Luk_5:14, Num_7:18, absolutely. With Riehm (Lehrbegr. des Hebräerbr. p. 434), to look upon περὶ ἁμαρτιῶν as definition of object to προσφέρειν is inadmissible, inasmuch as only the singular form περὶ ἁμαρτίας is employed to indicate the notion of “sin-offering” with the LXX., as also in our epistle. Comp. Reiche, Commentarius Criticus ad loc. p. 35.