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Hebrews 9:14
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12 Not awith the blood of goats and calves, but bwith His own blood He entered the Most Holy Place conce for all, dhaving obtained eternal redemption.  
13 For if athe blood of bulls and goats and bthe ashes of a heifer, sprinkling the unclean,1 sanctifies for the purifying of the flesh,  
14 how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered Himself without1 spot to God, acleanse your conscience from bdead works cto serve the living God?  
15 And for this reason aHe is the Mediator of the new covenant, by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions under the first covenant, that bthose who are called may receive the promise of the eternal inheritance.  

The Mediator’s Death Necessary

16 For where there is a testament, there must also of necessity be the death of the testator.
17 For aa testament is in force after men are dead, since it has no power at all while the testator lives.  
18 aTherefore not even the first covenant was dedicated without blood.  
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Hebrews 9:14

How much more (posw mallon). Instrumental case, "by how much more," by the measure of the superiority of Christ's blood to that of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer.

Through the eternal Spirit (dia pneumatov aiwniou). Not the Holy Spirit, but Christ's own spirit which is eternal as he is. There is thus a moral quality in the blood of Christ not in that of other sacrifices.

Offered himself (eauton proshnegken). Second aorist active indicative of prosferw (used so often as in Hebrews 5:1, Hebrews 5:3; Hebrews 8:3). The voluntary character of Christ's death is again emphasized.

Without blemish (amwmon). Old compound adjective (Colossians 1:22; I Peter 1:19) as the sacrifice had to be (Exodus 29:1; Leviticus 1:3, Leviticus 1:10).

Shall cleanse from conscience (kaqariei thn suneidhsin umwn). Future active indicative of kaqarizw. Some MSS. have hmwn (our). The old Greek used kaqairw, not kaqarizw (in inscriptions for ceremonial cleansing, Deissmann, Bible Studies, pp. 216f.), for cleansing.

From dead works (apo nekrwn ergwn). As in Hebrews 6:1. "A pause might be made before ergwn, from dead—(not bodies but) works."




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Hebrews 9:14:

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2 Corinthians 7:1
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Hebrews 6:1
Hebrews 7:27
Hebrews 10:1
Hebrews 10:2
1 Peter 1:19
1 John 2:2
Revelation 7:14
Revelation 14:5

 

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