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Heb_7:26. Proof for the actual existence of a high priest who is able in a perfect manner to procure salvation, since He ever liveth to represent in the presence of God those who believe in Him (Heb_7:25), derived from the meetness and adaptedness to our need of just such a high priest: for such a high priest (as had just been described, Heb_7:25) also beseemed us. τοιοῦτος begins no parenthesis, so that ὅσιος κ . τ . λ . were only “the continuation of a series begun with πάντοτε ζῶν εἰς τὸ ἐντυγχάνειν ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν ” (Hofmann), nor is “ οἷος ὁ Ἰησοῦς to be supplemented from Heb_7:22” (Woerner), nor does it serve for the introducing or preparing the way for the following predicates, ὅσιος κ . τ . λ . (Grotius, Tholuck, al.), but refers back to the characterization, Heb_7:25; while, then, with ὅσιος κ . τ . λ . a newly beginning further description of this so constituted high priest, or a further unfolding of the τοιοῦτος , follows, in such wise that the ὅσιος κ . τ . λ . thus attached is best rendered by: He, since He is holy, etc., beseemed us.
καί ] also, i.e. exactly. See Winer, Gramm., 7 Aufl. p. 408.
ὅσιος ] holy or pure. In regard to the relation towards God. Comp. 1Th_2:10; Eph_4:24; 1Ti_2:8; Tit_1:8. With the LXX. for the most part translation of çÈñÄéã , e.g. Psa_4:4 (3), Psa_16:10 (Act_2:27; Act_13:35), Psa_30:5 (4).
ἄκακος ] free from κακία , from craft and malice. In regard to the relation towards men. Chrysostom: Ἄκακος τί ἐστιν ; Ἀπόνηρος , οὐχ ὕπουλος · καὶ ὅτι τοιοῦτος , ἄκουε τοῦ προφήτου λέγοντος · Οὐδὲ εὑρέθη δόλος ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτοῦ (Isa_53:9).
ἀμίαντος ] unstained by any kind of impurity. In regard to the relation towards Himself. Comp. Jam_1:27; 1Pe_1:4.
κεχωρισμένος ἀπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶν ] separated from the sinners, i.e. not: different from them by reason of His sinlessness (so the Peshito, separatus a peccatis; Vatablus, Calvin, Cameron, Carpzov, Owen, Böhme, Kuinoel, Stuart, Klee, Ebrard, Bloomfield, Kurtz, and others), but—as is evident from the member immediately following—withdrawn by His exaltation to heaven from all contact with the sinners, so that He cannot be defiled by them. As the Levitical priests in general, so must very specially the high priest preserve himself free from defilement (Lev_21:10 ff.); before the great day of atonement he must, according to the Talmud, spend seven days in the temple, apart from his family, in order to be secured against defilement. See Tract. Joma, i. 1. Comp. also Schöttgen, Horae Hebraicae, p. 963 f.
καὶ ὑψηλότερος τῶν οὐρανῶν γενόμενος ] and (not “also” or “even,” as Hofmann contends) raised above the heavens, inasmuch, namely, as He διελήλυθε τοὺς οὐρανούς , Heb_4:14. Comp. Eph_4:10 : ὁ ἀναβὰς ὑπεράνω πάντων τῶν οὐρανῶν .