translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: HEB

label: NET translator note

text: Grk “those who approach.”


text: Grk “the worshipers, having been purified once for all, would have.”


text: Grk “in them”; the referent (those sacrifices) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).


text: א * A C D K P Ψ 33 1175 1881 2464 al ). The longer reading is a palpable corruption, apparently motivated in part by the wording of Ps 40:8 ( 39:9 LXX) and by the word order of this same verse as quoted in Heb 10:7 .


text: Or “abolishes.”


text: Grk “by which will.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.


text: Or “daily,” “every day.”


text: Grk “this one.” This pronoun refers to Jesus, but “this priest” was used in the translation to make the contrast between the Jewish priests in v. 11 and Jesus as a priest clearer in English.


text: Grk “from then on waiting.”


text: Grk “after having said,” emphasizing the present impact of this utterance.


text: Grk “putting…I will inscribe.”


text: Grk “and.”


text: Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11 .


text: Grk “that he inaugurated for us as a fresh and living way,” referring to the entrance mentioned in v. 19 .


text: Grk “and a great priest,” continuing the construction begun in v. 19 .


text: Grk “in assurance of faith.”


text: Grk “let us consider one another for provoking of love and good deeds.”


text: This paragraph (vv. 19-25 ) is actually a single, skillfully composed sentence in Greek, but it must be broken into shorter segments for English idiom. It begins with several subordinate phrases (since we have confidence and a great priest), has three parallel exhortations as its main verbs (let us draw near, hold, and take thought), and concludes with several subordinate phrases related to the final exhortation (not abandoning but encouraging).


text: Grk “is left,” with “for us” implied by the first half of the verse.


text: Grk “zeal,” recalling God’s jealous protection of his holiness and honor (cf. Exod 20:5 ). sn An allusion to Zeph 1:18 .


text: Grk “the enemies.” sn An allusion to Isa 26:11 .


text: Grk “dies.”


text: Grk “tramples under foot.”


text: Grk “regarded as common.”


text: Grk “by which he was made holy.”


text: Ψ 104 pc ), the force of which is so ambiguous (lit., “you shared the sufferings with the bonds”) as to be virtually nonsensical. Most likely, δεσμοῖς resulted when a scribe made an error in copying δεσμίοις ( desmioi" ), a reading which makes excellent sense (“[of] those in prison”) and is strongly supported by early and significant witnesses of the Alexandrian and Western texttypes (A D* H 6 33 81 1739 lat sy co). Thus, δεσμίοις best explains the rise of the other readings on both internal and external grounds and is strongly preferred.


text: Grk “you yourselves.”


text: Grk “which,” but showing the reason.


text: Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself.


text: Grk “my soul.”


text: Grk “not…of shrinking back to perdition but of faith to the preservation of the soul.”