hebrews 9:17 For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all while the testator liveth.

hebrews 9:17 For a covenant is valid [only] when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives.

17. after--literally, "over," as we say "upon the death of the testators"; not as THOLUCK, "on the condition that slain sacrifices be there," which the Greek hardly sanctions.
otherwise--"seeing that it is never availing" [ALFORD]. BENGEL and LACHMANN read with an interrogation, "Since, is it ever in force (surely not) while the testator liveth?"

hebrews 9:17 For a covenant is valid [only] when men are dead, for it is never in force while the one who made it lives.

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