translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: HEB

label: NET study note

text: A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5 ) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”


text: Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8 .


text: An allusion to Ps 110:1 .


text: A quotation from Jer 31:33 .


text: A quotation from Jer 31:34 .


text: Through his flesh. In a bold shift the writer changes from a spatial phrase (Christ opened the way through the curtain into the inner sanctuary) to an instrumental phrase (he did this through [by means of] his flesh in his sacrifice of himself), associating the two in an allusion to the splitting of the curtain in the temple from top to bottom ( Matt 27:51 ; Mark 15:38 ; Luke 23:45 ). Just as the curtain was split, so Christ’s body was broken for us, to give us access into God’s presence.


text: The phrase our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience combines the OT imagery of the sprinkling with blood to give ritual purity with the emphasis on the interior cleansing provided by the new covenant: It is the heart that is cleansed and the conscience made perfect (cf. Heb 8:10; 9:9, 14; 10:2, 16 ).


text: The day refers to that well-known time of Christ’s coming and judgment in the future; see a similar use of “day” in 1 Cor 3:13 .


text: An allusion to Deut 17:6 .


text: A quotation from Deut 32:35 .


text: A quotation from Deut 32:36 .


text: A quotation from Isa 26:20 .


text: A quotation from Hab 2:3 .


text: A quotation from Hab 2:4 .