Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Hebrews 10:15

μαρτυρεῖ δὲ ἡμῖν … “And the Holy Spirit also bears witness to us,” that is, that the one offering of the Son is final, for under the new covenant there is no further remembrance of sins. ἡμῖν is more naturally construed as a dativus commodi than as the object of μαρτυρεῖ. μετὰ γὰρ τὸ εἰρηκέναι. “For after saying …” we expect the apodosis to begin and the sentence to be concluded by an introductory ἔπειτα λέγει or τότε (cf. Hebrews 10:9), but Hebrews 10:17 is not so introduced. The sense, however, is unmistakable. After defining the covenant in its inwardness and spirituality (v. c. Hebrews 8:10), the writer introduces that feature of it which specially serves his present purpose καὶ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν … οὐ μὴ μνησθήσομαι ἔτι, “And I will never any more remember their sins and their transgressions”. The conclusion is obvious, “But where there is remission of these, there is no longer offering for sin”. For the terms of the new covenant see Hebrews 8:8-12. μνησθήσομαι is here used instead of μνησθῶ of LXX and of Hebrews 8:12, because the writer emphasises the extension of the forgetting to all futurity.

CHAPS. Hebrews 10:19 to Hebrews 12:29. Exhortation to use the access to God opened by Christ and to maintain faith in Him in spite of all temptation to fall away.

CHAP. Hebrews 10:19-25. Exhortation to draw near to God, to hold fast the Christian hope, and to encourage one another.

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