Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
By so much also (kata tosouto kai). Correlative demonstrative corresponding to kaq oson (the relative clause) in verse Hebrews 7:20.
The surety (egguov). Vulgate sponsor. Old word, here only in the N.T., adjective (one pledged, betrothed), from egguh, a pledge, here used as substantive like egguhthv, one who gives a pledge or guarantee. There may be a play on the word eggizw in verse Hebrews 7:19. Egguaw is to give a pledge, eggualizw, to put a pledge in the hollow of the hand. It is not clear whether the author means that Jesus is God's pledge to man, or man's to God, or both. He is both in fact, as the Mediator (o mesithv, Hebrews 8:6) between God and man (Son of God and Son of man).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Matthew 26:28
John 14:19
Hebrews 6:20
Hebrews 12:24
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