1:9 You have loved righteousness and hated lawlessness.
So God, your God, has anointed you over your companions 1 with the oil of rejoicing.” 2
9:11 But now Christ has come 7 as the high priest of the good things to come. He passed through the greater and more perfect tent not made with hands, that is, not of this creation, 9:12 and he entered once for all into the most holy place not by the blood of goats and calves but by his own blood, and so he himself secured 8 eternal redemption.
1 sn God…has anointed you over your companions. God’s anointing gives the son a superior position and authority over his fellows.
2 sn A quotation from Ps 45:6-7.
3 tn Grk “have taken refuge”; the basis of that refuge is implied in the preceding verse.
5 tn Grk “he”; the referent (Jesus) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
6 tn The words “did so” are not in the Greek text, but are implied.
7 sn A quotation from Ps 110:4 (see Heb 5:6, 6:20, and 7:17).
7 tn Grk “But Christ, when he came,” introducing a sentence that includes all of Heb 9:11-12. The main construction is “Christ, having come…, entered…, having secured…,” and everything else describes his entrance.
9 tn This verb occurs in the Greek middle voice, which here intensifies the role of the subject, Christ, in accomplishing the action: “he alone secured”; “he and no other secured.”
11 tn Grk “whose blood is brought by the high priest.”