Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Hebrews 7:15

καὶ περισσότερον ἔτι κατάδηλόν ἐστιν. “And more abundantly still is it evident” [Weizsäcker excellently “Und noch zum Ueberfluss weiter liegt die Sache klar”. What is it that is more abundantly evident? Weiss says, It is, that an alteration of the priesthood has been made. Similarly Vaughan, “And this insufficiency and consequent supersession of the Levitical priesthood is still more conclusively proved by the particular designation of the predicted priest (in Psalms 110:4) as a priest, etc.”. So too Westcott. But from the twelfth verse the argument has been directed to show that there has been a change of law, and this argument is continued in Hebrews 7:15. This change of law is evident from the fact that Jesus belongs to the non-Levitical tribe of Judah, and yet more superabundantly evident from the nature of the new priest who is seen to be no longer “after the law of a carnal commandment”. So Bleek after Œcumenius, Davidson, Farrar and others. κατάδηλον, quite evident, as in Xen., Mem., i. 4, 14, οὐ γὰρ πάνυ σοι κατάδηλον; Wetstein quotes from Hippocrates, ἔτι δὲ μᾶλλον κατάδηλον γίνεται. In πρόδηλον the preposition has the force of “ob” in “obvious”; in κατάδηλον the preposition strengthens. εἰ κατὰ, κ. τ. λ. “if as is the case” or “since” (cf. Hebrews 7:11) “after the likeness of Melchizedek” the κατὰ τ. ταξιν of previous verses changed now into κατὰ τ. ὁμοιότητα, because attention is directed to the similarity of nature between Melchizedek and this new priest.

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