{"id":4093,"date":"2014-01-14T16:35:16","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=4093"},"modified":"2014-01-14T16:35:16","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T16:35:16","slug":"hebrews-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/4093\/hebrews-105\/","title":{"rendered":"Hebrews 10:5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pastor John,<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought about Hebrews 10:5 “…sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared for me.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Who prepared “a body”?\u00a0 If it was the Son, then wouldn’t the entire verse apply to the Son? Whew!\u00a0\u00a0Does “body” in this verse mean a body for a sacrifice (Mary’s son) or a body of believers?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Many times, prophecies refer to more than one thing (e.g., Isa. 28:11-12). \u00a0While this prophecy, quoted in Hebrews 10:5 obviously is a prophecy about the human body of Jesus, we cannot rule out the possibility that it also refers to the NT body of believers.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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There are two things I found interesting while researching this:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0First, the Greek word for \u201cprepare\u201d\u00a0(\u03ba\u03b1\u03c4\u03b7\u03c1\u03c4\u03b9\u03c3\u03c9)\u00a0appears to mean \u201cto repair, restore, adjust or complete something\u201d rather than creating something new. (The Greek text uses a form of that word that I am not familiar with.)\u00a0 Am I understanding that word correctly?<\/span><\/p>\n

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Greek-English lexicons cannot give us the full range of possible definitions of any word.\u00a0 Some definitions must be determined by context, including this one.\u00a0 It makes no sense, for example, for the Son, in heaven before he came to earth, to have been saying to his Father, \u201ca body hast thou adjusted for me.”\u00a0 Sometimes, translators have to use their common sense in order to get it right.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Second, the author of Hebrews 10:5 seems to have been quoting Psalm 40:6 but there is no mention of a body being prepared unless I overlooked it.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Often, Tom, NT writers quoted from the Septuagint, the ancient Greek Old Testament, instead of the Hebrew OT, and that is the case here.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The thought of the Son creating the body he would dwell in while on earth is mind-boggling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Tom<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pastor John, I thought about Hebrews 10:5 “…sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared for me.”\u00a0 Who prepared “a body”?\u00a0 If it was the Son, then wouldn’t the entire verse apply to the Son? Whew!\u00a0\u00a0Does “body” in this verse mean a body for a sacrifice (Mary’s son) or a body […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}