Lectures on the Epistle to the Hebrews [Ed by G Brooks]

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Gesenius seems to doubt whether should not be understood simply as meaning lid, cover; and he argues that dagessated nouns not rarely have meanings derived from the simple form Kal; but it is also true that more frequently their signification is determined by the force of Piel. And that it is so in the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Gesenius seems to doubt whether should not be understood simply as meaning lid, cover; and he argues that dagessated nouns not rarely have meanings derived from the simple form Kal; but it is also true that more frequently their signification is determined by the force of Piel. And that it is so in the present case, is demonstrated by a passage in 1 Chron. xxviii. 11, where the most holy place is styled ?''. Now if ' meant simply a lid, how ridiculous would it be to ground a designation of the apartment upon such an article House of the lid But if mercy-seat be its proper meaning, then, as this was the most important object in the sanctuary, the force and beauty of the designation are at once apparent'house or place of the mercy-seat. The propriety of the Septuagint's rendering, therefore, will not bear a question. And the apostle has stamped the seal of his authority upon it, adopting their word, tacrrrjpiov. Luther: Gnademthul, propitiatory, the place where God showed Himself propitious. The reason why this designation was applied to the cover of the ark is unfolded in Lev. svi. 13-15, where we are told that Aaron sprinkled the blood of the bullock and of the goat with his finger upon the mercy- seat, and thus made atonement for himself and the congregation; so that the lid of the ark was really the seat of the forgiving Jehovah, the place where pardoning mercy was to be sought. 'Iatrrpiov is primarily an adjective, denoting making propitious; and as here it is applied substantively to the place where this effect is produced, the mercy-seat, lacrrrjpiov e'r'efia, the propitiatory lid or cover, so in Rom. iii. 25 it is applied to the victim that makes propitiation, viz. Christ. He is iacr'piov, a propitiation, or a propitiating sacrifice. In the la...