Anakalypsis / Unveiling the Word

Hebrews 7:16

Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life.

KJV

ὃς οὐ κατὰ νόμον ἐντολῆς σαρκίνης γέγονεν ἀλλὰ κατὰ δύναμιν ζωῆς ἀκαταλύτου,

Greek NT

qui non secundum legem mandati carnalis factus est, sed secundum virtutem vitæ insolubilis.

Vulgate

who hath been made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life:

ASV

Who is made, not according to the law of a law of a carnal commandment, but according to the power of an indissoluble life.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

11 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

γίνομαι
ginomai
verb · 667×
δύναμις
dunamis
noun · 119×
ζωή
zoe
noun · 135×
κατά
kata
preposition · 470×
νόμος
nomos
noun · 196×
οὐ
ou
particle · 1626×
σάρκινος
sarkinos
adjective · 4×
ἀκατάλυτος
akatalutos
adjective · 1×
ἀλλά
alla
conjunction · 636×
ἐντολή
entole
noun · 66×
ὅς
os
relative_pronoun · 1404×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: σαρκίνης | WH/Treg/NIV: σαρκίνης | RP: σαρκικῆς
  • σαρκίνης — SBLGNT
  • σαρκίνης — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • σαρκικῆς — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

8 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§648Christ's Resurrection is an object of faith in that it is a transcendent intervention of God himself in creation and history. In it the three divine persons act together as one, and manifest their own proper characteristics. the Father's power "raised up" Christ his Son and by doing so perfectly introduced his Son's humanity, including his body, into the Trinity. Jesus is concl…
1. If therefore (he says) perfection were by the Levitical priesthood. Having spoken concerning Melchisedec, and shown how much superior he was to Abraham, and having set forth the great difference between them, he begins from this point forward to prove the wide difference as to the covenant itself, and how the one is imperfect and the other perfect. However he does not even y…
1. Paul mixes the lowly things with the lofty, ever imitating his Master, so that the lowly become the path to the lofty, and through the former we are led to the latter, and when we are amid the great things we learn that these [lowly ones] were a condescension. This accordingly he does here also. After declaring that He offered up Himself, and showing Him to be a High Priest,…
1. He has shown from the Priest, from the Priesthood, from the Covenant, that that [dispensation] was to have an end. From this point he shows it from the fashion of the tabernacle itself. How? This, he says, [was] the Holy and the Holy of Holies. The holy place then is a symbol of the former period (for there all things are done by means of sacrifices); but the Holy of Holies …
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Cross-references

  • Col 2:14 — Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross;
  • Col 2:20 — Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,
  • Eph 2:15 — Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace;
  • Gal 3:3 — Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?
  • Gal 4:3 — Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
  • Gal 4:9 — But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
  • Heb 7:3 — Without father, without mother, without descent, having neither beginning of days, nor end of life; but made like unto the Son of God; abideth a priest continually.
  • Heb 7:25 — Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
  • Heb 7:28 — For the law maketh men high priests which have infirmity; but the word of the oath, which was since the law, maketh the Son, who is consecrated for evermore.
  • Heb 9:10 — Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation.
  • Heb 10:1 — For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect.
  • Lev 8:34 — As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you.
  • Rev 1:18 — I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.
  • Rev 1:18 — I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.