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The Conception of ‘Offering’ in the Epistle to the Hebrews

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2009

Extract

The object of this article is to examine what the author of Hebrews implied in the conception of ‘Offering’.

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Short Studies
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1962

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References

1 See S. R. Driver's article ‘Offering’ in H.D.B.

2 All these references are given as having a sacrificial meaning in Arndt and Gingrich.

3 Edersheim, , The Temple, its Ministry and Services (Religious Tract Society), pp. 302–29. Much the same can be found in the article ‘Day of Atonement’ in H.D.B.Google Scholar

4 Edersheim, , op. cit. pp. 303, 305, 326.Google Scholar

5 Ibid. p. 326.

1 Edersheim, , op. cit. p. 307.Google Scholar

2 See ii. 14; vii. 27; ix. 12, 14, 16, 28; x. 29; xii. 2; xiii. 12.

3 Heb., i. 3.Google Scholar

4 Heb., v. 6, 10 and chapter vii.Google Scholar

1 v. 1, 3; viii. 3 a, 4; ix. vii; x. 1, 2, 8, never of Christ's offering.

2 viii. 3 b; ix. 14, 28; x. 12, never of the Aaronic priesthood.

3 When the writer says ‘undefiled’ (άΜíαντος) has he this in mind (vii. 26)?

1 It is astounding to find so great a theologian as C. Spicq in his commentary on Hebrews saying of this verse ‘la glose exégètique’, the explanatory gloss. The verse is the climax of the argument.

2 It is significant that in the picture in the Apocalypse of the Ascended Christ among the candlesticks the attitude is not mentioned. In Acts vii. 56 at Stephen's death he is portrayed as standing. But for this see the commentaries in loco.

1 It is doubtful if the meaning of ήντυγχάνειν is at all that of ‘pleading’, see E. R. Bernard's article ‘Prayer’ in H.D.B., where he points out the meaning is ‘to approach on behalf of’.

2 Notice the phrase repeated in Heb., xiii. 20.Google Scholar