KJV: Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.
YLT: who came not according to the law of a fleshly command, but according to the power of an endless life,
Darby: who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life.
ASV: who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:
κατὰ | according to |
Parse: Preposition Root: κατά Sense: down from, through out. |
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νόμον | a law |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Masculine Singular Root: νόμος Sense: anything established, anything received by usage, a custom, a law, a command. |
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ἐντολῆς | of a commandment |
Parse: Noun, Genitive Feminine Singular Root: ἐντολή Sense: an order, command, charge, precept, injunction. |
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σαρκίνης | fleshly |
Parse: Adjective, Genitive Feminine Singular Root: σάρκινος Sense: fleshly, consisting of flesh, composed of flesh. |
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γέγονεν | has been constituted |
Parse: Verb, Perfect Indicative Active, 3rd Person Singular Root: γίνομαι Sense: to become, i. |
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δύναμιν | [the] power |
Parse: Noun, Accusative Feminine Singular Root: δύναμις Sense: strength power, ability. |
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ζωῆς | of a life |
Parse: Noun, Genitive Feminine Singular Root: ζωή Sense: life. |
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ἀκαταλύτου | indestructible |
Parse: Adjective, Genitive Feminine Singular Root: ἀκατάλυτος Sense: indissoluble, not subject to destruction. |
Greek Commentary for Hebrews 7:16
“Fleshen” as in 1 Corinthians 3:1, not σαρκικης sarkikēs (fleshlike, 1 Corinthians 3:3). The Levitical priests became so merely by birth. Of an endless life Late compound (alpha privative and verbal adjective from καταλυω kataluō to dissolve, as in 2 Corinthians 4:1), indissoluble. Jesus as priest lives on forever. He is Life. [source]
The phrase N.T.o Νόμον thenorm or standard, as Romans 7:21, Romans 7:23. Εντολῆς, the specific precept of the Mosaic law regarding Levitical priests. Comp. Ephesians 2:15. Σαρκίνης fleshlyindicates that the conditions of the Levitical priesthood had reference to the body. Fitness for office was determined largely by physical considerations. The priest must be of proper descent, without bodily blemish, ceremonially pure. See Hebrews 9:1-5, Hebrews 9:10, and comp. Romans 8:3. Such a priesthood cannot be eternal. [source]
Δύναμιν inherentvirtue. Rend. for endless, indissoluble. Comp. καταλύθῃ looseneddown, of a tent, 2 Corinthians 5:1; of the stones of the temple, Matthew 24:2. Jesus was high priest in virtue of the energy of indissoluble life which dwelt in him, unlike the priests who die, Hebrews 7:8. This truth the writer finds in the Psalm. [source]
Reverse Greek Commentary Search for Hebrews 7:16
Latin carneus. “As men o‘flesh,” Braid Scots; “as worldlings,” Moffatt. This form in ινος ̇inos like λιτινος lithinos in 2 Corinthians 3:3 means the material of flesh, “not on tablets of stone, but on fleshen tablets on hearts.” So in Hebrews 7:16. But in Romans 7:14 Paul says, “I am fleshen It is not culpable to a babe in Christ It is one of the tragedies of the minister‘s life that he has to keep on speaking to the church members “as unto babes in Christ” (ως νηπιοις εν Χριστωι hōs nēpiois en Christōi), who actually glory in their long babyhood whereas they ought to be teachers of the gospel instead of belonging to the cradle roll. Paul‘s goal was for all the babes to become adults (Colossians 1:28). [source]
For the rend. an. Διὰ through= by virtue of. Not the Holy Spirit, who is never so designated, but Christ's own human spirit: the higher element of Christ's being in his human life, which was charged with the eternal principle of the divine life. Comp. Romans 1:4; 1 Corinthians 15:45; 1 Peter 3:18; Hebrews 7:16. This is the key to the doctrine of Christ's sacrifice. The significance and value of his atonement lie in the personal quality and motive of Christ himself which are back of the sacrificial act. The offering was the offering of Christ's deepest self - his inmost personality. Therein consists the attraction of the cross, not to the shedding of blood, but to Christ himself. This is Christ's own declaration, John 12:32. “I will draw all men unto me.” Therein consists its potency for men: not in Christ's satisfaction of justice by suffering a legal penalty, but in that the cross is the supreme expression of a divine spirit of love, truth, mercy, brotherhood, faith, ministry, unselfishness, holiness, - a spirit which goes out to men with divine intensity of purpose and yearning to draw them into its own sphere, and to make them partakers of its own eternal quality. This was a fact before the foundation of the world, is a fact today, and will be a fact so long as any life remains unreconciled to God. Atonement is eternal in virtue of the eternal spirit of Christ through which he offered himself to God. [source]
Verily is superfluous. Ἀθέτησις only here and Hebrews 9:26; a very few times in lxx: The fundamental idea is the doing away of something established ( θετόν ). The verb ἀθετεῖν tomake void, do away with, is common in N.T. and in lxx, where it represents fifteen different Hebrew words, meaning to deal falsely, to make merchandise of, to abhor, to transgress, to rebel, to break an oath, etc. The noun, in a technical, legal sense, is found in a number of papyri from 98 to 271 a.d., meaning the making void of a document. It appears in the formula εἰς ἀθίτησιν καὶ ἀκύρωσιν forannulling and canceling. Προαγούσης ἐντολῆς rend. of a foregoing commandment. The expression is indefinite, applying to any commandment which might be superseded, although the commandment in Hebrews 7:16is probably in the writer's mind. Foregoing, not emphasizing mere precedence in time, but rather the preliminary character of the commandment as destined to be done away by a later ordinance. With foregoing comp. 1 Timothy 1:18; 1 Timothy 5:24. [source]