Hebrews 1:12
1:12 and like a robe you will fold them up
and like a garment 1 they will be changed,
but you are the same and your years will never run out.” 2
Hebrews 10:1
Concluding Exposition: Old and New Sacrifices Contrasted
10:1 For the law possesses a shadow of the good things to come but not the reality itself, and is therefore completely unable, by the same sacrifices offered continually, year after year, to perfect those who come to worship. 3
Hebrews 11:9
11:9 By faith he lived as a foreigner 4 in the promised land as though it were a foreign country, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were fellow heirs 5 of the same promise.
1 tc The words “like a garment” (ὡς ἱμάτιον, Jw" Jimation) are found in excellent and early mss (Ì46 א A B D* 1739) though absent in a majority of witnesses (D1 Ψ 0243 0278 33 1881 Ï lat sy bo). Although it is possible that longer reading was produced by overzealous scribes who wanted to underscore the frailty of creation, it is much more likely that the shorter reading was produced by scribes who wanted to conform the wording to that of Ps 102:26 (101:27 LXX), which here lacks the second “like a garment.” Both external and internal considerations decidedly favor the longer reading, and point to the author of Hebrews as the one underscoring the difference between the Son and creation.
sn The phrase like a garment here is not part of the original OT text (see tc note above); for this reason it has been printed in normal type.
2 sn A quotation from Ps 102:25-27.
3 tn Grk “those who approach.”
4 tn Or “settled as a resident alien.”
5 tn Or “heirs with him.”