Encyclopedia of sacred theology - pagina 475

Chap.

No

II]

THE TESTIMONY OF THE APOSTLES

§ 78.

451

but the author himself, since he is both authorized and competent to guard against false interpretations of his original meaning. one else could do

tliis

Heb. x. 5 may still furwhich is here given is undoubtedly borrowed from the LXX., and it is equally certain that the translation of the LXX. is faulty and corrupted in the copies, either by the change of cotlu, or, as others D'^JIK is not acofia, but assert, by that of crrofMa into crcofxa. WTM or wra. Must it be said, that the reading aco/xa indiMost assuredly, if one translates cates another thought? 'h ST^D D"']1K as given in the Dutch version: "Mine ears hast thou pierced," in the sense in which the willing slave was pinned through the ear to the doorpost of his lord. This translation, however, is absolutely untenable, simply because this never could or can be said of the CJIX (ears) in the dual. The only correct translation is Mine ears hast thou digged, in the sense of opened, i.e. Thou hast prepared me For this thought the expresfor the service of obedience. sion "a body hast thou prepared me" would do just as well,

The

citation

from Psalm

The

ther explain this.

xl. 6 in

translation

:

after the rule of the is

"whole

for the part."

hurt, I can use three forms of expression

wounded,

my finger

is

wounded, or

my

hand

my thumb

If :

m}^ thumb is

hurt.

is

For

the preparation of the ear can be put the preparation of the body; provided both are taken in the sense that this, physico:

symbolically, points to spiritual obedience, which

is

also to

be accomplished in outward things. That in Heb. x, 5, body is taken in this sense appears from verse 9, where the exegesis

from Fs.

xl.

to obey.

And

used: " Lo, I come to do thy will," i.e. it is intended as the actual explanation

7 is

that

"a body hast thou prepared me," appears from the " He taketh away the first (the burnt additional words offerings and offerings for sin) that He may establish the second (the complete sacrifice of obedience)." The atoning act of Christ's sacrifice lay not in the crucifixion of His body by itself, but in His ivill to obey; as it is expressly stated in verse 10: by which will (not by which body) we have been sanctified. The question whether the following, " through of the

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