Hebrews 10:7-9
Context10:7 “Then I said, ‘Here I am: 1 I have come – it is written of me in the scroll of the book – to do your will, O God.’” 2
10:8 When he says above, “Sacrifices and offerings and whole burnt offerings and sin-offerings you did not desire nor did you take delight in them” 3 (which are offered according to the law), 10:9 then he says, “Here I am: I have come to do your will.” 4 He does away with 5 the first to establish the second.
[10:7] 1 tn Grk “behold,” but this construction often means “here is/there is” (cf. BDAG 468 s.v. ἰδού 2).
[10:7] 2 sn A quotation from Ps 40:6-8 (LXX). The phrase a body you prepared for me (in v. 5) is apparently an interpretive expansion of the HT reading “ears you have dug out for me.”
[10:8] 3 sn Various phrases from the quotation of Ps 40:6 in Heb 10:5-6 are repeated in Heb 10:8.
[10:9] 4 tc The majority of