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9. τελειωθείς. Having been brought to the goal and consummation in the glory which followed this mediatorial work. See Heb 2:10, and comp. Luk 13:32, “the third day I shall be perfected.”
αἴτιος. “The cause.”
σωτηρίας αἰωνίου. It is remarkable that the epithet αἰώνιος is here alone applied to the substantive “salvation.”
ὑπακούουσιν … σωτηρίας. In an author so polished and rhetorical there seems to be an intentional force and beauty in the repetition in this verse of the two leading words in the last. Christ prayed to God who was able to “save” Him out of death, and He became the cause of “eternal salvation” from final death; Christ learnt “obedience” by His life of self-sacrifice, and He became a Saviour to them that “obey” Him.