3:1 Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, 1 partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess, 2
4:14 Therefore since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.
10:26 For if we deliberately keep on sinning after receiving the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins is left for us, 7
13:22 Now I urge you, brothers and sisters, 12 bear with my message of exhortation, for in fact I have written to you briefly.
1 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.
2 tn Grk “of our confession.”
3 tn Grk “the beginning of the confidence.”
5 sn The curtain refers to the veil or drape in the temple that separated the holy place from the holy of holies.
7 tn Grk “that he inaugurated for us as a fresh and living way,” referring to the entrance mentioned in v. 19.
8 sn Through his flesh. In a bold shift the writer changes from a spatial phrase (Christ opened the way through the curtain into the inner sanctuary) to an instrumental phrase (he did this through [by means of] his flesh in his sacrifice of himself), associating the two in an allusion to the splitting of the curtain in the temple from top to bottom (Matt 27:51; Mark 15:38; Luke 23:45). Just as the curtain was split, so Christ’s body was broken for us, to give us access into God’s presence.
9 tn Grk “is left,” with “for us” implied by the first half of the verse.
11 tn Grk “coming to an end,” “dying.”
12 sn Joseph’s prophecy about the exodus of the sons of Israel is found in Gen 50:24.
13 tn Grk “about his bones,” which refers by metonymy to the disposition of his bones, i.e., his burial.
13 tn Grk “neglect doing good and fellowship.”
15 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.