Hebrews 1:12

ὡσεὶ περιβόλαιον. The ὡς ἱμάτιον of אObadiah 1:1 E and several versions is probably a gloss on the rarer word.

ἑλίξεις, rec. ἀλλάξεις, which is less well supported.

The title followed in the Authorised Version Παύλου τοῦ Ἀποστόλου ἡ πρὸς Ἑβραίους ἐπιστολὴ is wholly without authority. The original title, if there was one at all, probably ran simply πρὸς Ἑβραίους as in אABK, and as it was in the days of Origen. In various MSS. the Epistle is found in different positions. In DKL it stands as in A.V. In אABC it is placed after 2 Thess. (See for fuller information Bleek, Hebraerbrief, p. 45.)

12. ἑλιξεις αὐτούς, “Thou shalt roll them up.” This reading (ἑλίξεις) is found in most MSS. and is perhaps an unconscious reminiscence of Isaiah 34:4 (comp. Revelation 6:14); but א, D read “thou shalt change them” (ἀλλάξεις), as in the original, and in the LXX. (Cod. Alex.). On this final consummation, and the destruction of the material universe, see Matthew 24:35; 2 Peter 3:7; Revelation 21:1.

σὺ δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς εἶ. In the Hebrew (literally) “Thou art He” (הוּא).

τὰ ἔτη σου οὐκ ἐκλείψουσιν, i.e. they shall never come to an end (Hebrews 13:8; Revelation 1:8). The verb is used in the LXX. and by St Luke 16:9; Luke 22:32. The neut. plur., as is not unusual, here takes a plural verb. So too in John 19:31; 1 Timothy 5:25. See Winer, p. 646.