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Heb_5:9. Καὶ τελειωθείς ] and being brought to consummation, i.e. being crowned with glory by His exaltation to heaven (comp. Heb_2:9-10), sc. in consequence of the obedience to God proved by His sufferings and death.
ἐγένετο ] He became. Author and Mediator of everlasting blessedness for His believers, Christ certainly was even during His earthly life. But in an eminent manner, because formally and manifestly accredited by God as such, He became so first by His resurrection and exaltation.
πᾶσιν ] perhaps added in order to indicate the equal claim of the believing Gentiles also, to the salvation in Christ.
τοῖς ὑπακούουσιν αὐτῷ ] The expression attaches itself in point of form to τὴν ὑπακοήν , Heb_5:8, with which it forms a paronomasia; in point of subject-matter it is not different from τοῖς πιστεύουσιν (Heb_4:3). Comp. Rom_10:16; 2Th_1:8, al.
The mode of expression: αἴτιόν τινι εἶναι σωτηρίας (comp. τὸν ἀρχηγὸν τῆς σωτηρίας αὐτῶν , Heb_2:10), is also often met with in Philo, Josephus, and the classical writers. Instances in Wetstein, Kypke, and Bleek.
The adjective αἰώνιος with σωτηρία in the N. T. only here. Comp., however, LXX. Isa_45:17.