Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadCambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Hebrews 13:15 - 13:15
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
15. θυσίαν αἰνέσεως. A thanksgiving (Jer 17:26; Lev 7:12), not in the form of an offering, but something which shall “please the Lord better than a bullock which hath horns and hoofs” (Psa 69:31).
διαπαντός. Even the Rabbis held that the sacrifice of praise would outlast animal sacrifices and would never cease.
καρπὸν χειλέων ὁμολογούντων τῷ ὀνόματι αὐτοῦ. “The fruit of lips which confess to His name.” The phrase “the fruit of the lips” is borrowed by the LXX. from Isa 57:19. In Hos 14:2 we have “so will we render the calves of our lips,” literally, “our lips as bullocks,” i.e. “as thank-offerings.” Dr Kay notices that (besides the perhaps accidental resemblance between פרי perî, “fruit,” and פרים parîm, “calves”) κάρπωμα and similar words were used of burnt-offerings.
ὁμολογούντων τῷ. Like the Hebrew הוֹרָה לְ.