SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:18
De donde vino que ni aun el primero fue consagrado sin sangre.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Hebrew 9:18
Verse 18. Whereupon] oqen. Wherefore, as a victim was required for the ratification of every covenant, the first covenant made between God and the Hebrews, by the mediation of Moses, was not dedicated, egkekainistai, renewed or solemnized, without blood - without the death of a victim, and the aspersion of its blood.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. Whereupon neither the first testament , etc..] Or the first administration of the covenant of grace under the law: was dedicated without blood ; or confirmed without it, that dispensation being a typical one; and that blood was typical of the blood of Christ, by which the new covenant or testament is ratified; (see Exodus 24:7,8).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 15-22 - The solemn transactions between God and man, are sometimes called covenant, here a testament, which is a willing deed of a person bestowing legacies on such persons as are described, and it only take effect upon his death. Thus Christ died, not only to obtain the blessings of salvation for us, but to give power to the disposal of them. All, by sin, were become guilty before God, had forfeited ever thing that is good; but God, willing to show the greatness of his mercy, proclaimed a covenant of grace. Nothing could be clean to sinner, not even his religious duties; except as his guilt was don away by the death of a sacrifice, of value sufficient for that end, an unless he continually depended upon it. May we ascribe all real goo works to the same all-procuring cause, and offer our spiritual sacrifices as sprinkled with Christ's blood, and so purified from their defilement.
Greek Textus Receptus
οθεν 3606 ουδ 3761 η 3588 πρωτη 4413 χωρις 5565 αιματος 129 εγκεκαινισται 1457 5769
Vincent's NT Word Studies
18. Whereupon (oqen). Rend. wherefore, or for which reason: on the general principle that a covenant must be ratified by death.
Neither the first testament was dedicated without blood (oude h prwth cwriv aimatov enkekainistai). Rend. "neither hath the first (covenant) been inaugurated without blood." There is surely no excuse for inserting testament here, as A.V., since the allusion is clearly to the ratification of a covenant with blood. But further, as this and the verses immediately following are intended to furnish a historical illustration of the statements in vers. 16, 17, we seem forced either to render covenant in those verses, or to assume that the transaction here related was the ratification of a will and testament, or to find our writer guilty of using an illustration which turns on a point entirely different from the matter which he is illustrating. Thus: a testament is of force after men are dead. It has no force so long as the testator is alive. Wherefore, the first covenant was ratified by slaying victims and sprinkling their blood. For the incident see Exod. xxiv. 8. jEnkainizein only here and ch. x. 20 LXX, to renew, 1 Samuel xi. 14; 2 Chron. xv. 8; Psalm i. 10: to dedicate, 1 Kings viii. 63; 1 Macc. iv. 86. Comp. ta ejnkainia the feast of dedication, John x. 22. Rend. oujde neither, as A.V., and not not even, in which case the meaning would be, "not even the first covenant, although its ministries did not perfect the worshipper as touching the conscience," a thought which would be foreign to the point, which is merely the analogy in the matter of death.
