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Heb_8:7. Justification of the κρείττονος and κρείττοσιν , Heb_8:6.
εἰ ἦν ] if it were (Heb_7:11, Heb_8:4).
ἡ πρώτη ἐκείνη ] sc. διαθήκη . On the superlative, quite in keeping with the linguistic usage of the Greek, see Winer, Gramm., 7 Aufl. p. 229, Obs. 1.
ἄμεμπτος ] faultless (Php_2:15; Php_3:6), satisfactory, sufficient. Theodoret: τὸ ἄμεμπτος ἀντὶ τοῦ τελεία τέθεικε .
οὐκ ἂν δευτέρας ἐζητεῖτο τόπος ] place would not have been sought (sc. by God, in the O. T., or in the passage of Scripture immediately adduced) for a second (covenant); i.e. it would not have been expressed by God Himself, that a second covenant is to come in beside the first, and replace it. In this general sense ἐζητεῖτο τόπος is to be taken, and the form of expression in the apodosis to be explained from a mingling of a twofold mode of contemplation ( οὐκ ἂν δευτέρα ἐζητεῖτο καὶ δευτέρας αὐκ ἦν ἂν τόπος : a second would not be sought by God, nor would there be any place for a second). No emphasis rests upon τόπος ; on which account it is over-refining, when Bleek finds in ἐζητεῖτο τόπος the reference that to the New Covenant, according to Heb_8:10, the place was assigned in the hearts of men, while the Old was written upon tables of stone.