And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
Ver. 2. He is the propitiation] Heb. Copher; he coffers up, as it were, and covers our sins, Psalms 78:38. See Trapp on " Rom 3:25 " The Hebrew word כפר used for covering and propitiating of sin, is Gen 6:14 used of the pitch or plaster whereby the wood of the ark was so fastened that no water could get in.
But also for the sins of the whole world] That is, of all the faithful, both of Jews and Gentiles, that mundus ex mundo, that world of whom the world is not worthy, Hebrews 11:38 .