Timothy to Hebrews - The Preterist Archive

Hebrews VII. 28. 469
not lay before him the calendar of the days in the year, and inquire
upon what days an atonement festival fell, and how many days intervened
between each, but he sets before him the immense number
of days on which these fasts were observed, and lays stress upon
this, that on one such day after the other the high priest must offer
the sacrifice. (In like manner Olshausen). He treats these days,
in other words, as a discrete, not as a concrete quantity. So might
a teacher say to an unruly pupil : "day after day" or "day by day
I must punish you," without meaning by this, that he is wont,
regularly every day at a certain hour, to punish him, but only, that,
again and again, punishments are necessary, although not merely
the Sundays, but, now and then whole weeks should intervene between
them. So much, at any rate, is beyond all doubt, that our
author did not say Kad^ ijixipav from any ignorance of the law ; for,
in chap. ix. 7 (where he expressly distinguishes the yearly service in
the holiest of all from the daily service in the sanctuary), he himself
mentions, that the sacrifice of atonement was broughtoncein the year.
How far the once offered sacrifice of Christ was to consist in this
—that he offered liimself tavrbv TrpooeviyKag—is explained in the
following principal part of our epistle, so that we do not need here
to anticipate what is there said on this question by any subjective
reasonings of our own.
Ver. 28 is a concluding explanation, but, at the same time also,
a recapitulation of the ivhole of our third principal part.
As an explanation and further development of what goes before,
this verse connects itself (by means of an explicative yap) with vers.
26, 27, the connecting link being the idea, that through the oath
of promise the Son of God was made an high priest /or ever.
It is, however, a recapitulation of the ivhole part, in virtue of the
antithesis implicitly contained in it between 6 v6p,o