translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: HEB

label: NET study note

text: An allusion to Ps 110:1 ; see Heb 1:3, 13 .


text: A quotation from Exod 25:40 .


text: The Greek text indicates a contrast between vv. 4-5 and v. 6 that is difficult to render in English: Jesus’ status in the old order of priests (vv. 4-5 ) versus his superior ministry (v. 6 ).


text: This linkage of the change in priesthood with a change in the law or the covenant goes back to Heb 7:12, 22 and is picked up again in Heb 9:6-15 and 10:1-18 .


text: The “fault” or limitation in the first covenant was not in its inherent righteousness, but in its design from God himself. It was never intended to be his final revelation or provision for mankind; it was provisional, always pointing toward the fulfillment to come in Christ.


text: A quotation from Jer 31:31-34 .