Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Hebrews 12:11
Now, no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Now, no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.
Verse Hebrews 12:11. _NO CHASTENING FOR THE PRESENT SEEMETH TO BE JOYOUS_] Neither correction, wholesome restraint, domestic regulations, nor gymnastic discipline, are pleasant to them that are thus...
NOW NO CHASTENING FOR THE PRESENT SEEMETH TO BE JOYOUS, BUT GRIEVOUS - It does not impart pleasure, nor is this its design. All chastisement is intended to produce pain, and the Christian is as sensit...
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Looking away unto Jesus (Hebrews 12:1)_ 2. The Contradiction of sinners (Hebrews 12:3) 3. Chastened as sons (Hebrews 12:5) 4. Exhortations ...
With the example of Christ before them the readers are to show more constancy under their own sufferings. They are to think of Him whose life was so thwarted by wicked men, and thus nerve themselves t...
Have you forgotten the appeal, an appeal which reasons with you as sons? "My son, do not treat lightly the discipline which the Lord sends; Never lose heart when you are put to the test by him; For t...
THE RACE AND THE GOAL (Hebrews 12:1-2)...
NO CHASTENING. Literally all chastening seemeth not (Greek. _ou)_. JOYOUS. of joy. App-17. GRIEVOUS. of grief. PEACEABLE. Greek. _eirenikos._ Only here and James 3:17. RIGHTEOUSNESS. Greek. _dikai...
_the peaceable fruit of righteousness_ The original is expressed in the emphatic and oratorical style of the writer, "but afterwards it yieldeth a peaceful fruit to those who have been exercised by it...
ΧΑΡΑ͂Σ. “A matter of joy”; the gen. of a property, or perhaps of the sphere to which a thing belongs. Winer, p. 244. ὝΣΤΕΡΟΝ ΔῈ Κ.Τ.Λ. The original is expressed in the emphatic and oratorical style of...
CH. 12. An exhortation to faithful endurance (1–3) and a reminder that our earthly sufferings are due to the fatherly chastisement of God (4–13). The need of earnest watchfulness (14–17). Magnificent...
FATHERLY CHASTISEMENTS SHOULD BE CHEERFULLY ENDURED...
_RUN WITH ENDURANCE -- HEBREWS 12:4-17:_ Christians must be faithful, even during the worst of suffering. Christ suffered, even unto death. His sufferings are contrasted with the sufferings of the Heb...
ΠΡΟΣ... ΤΌ ΠΑΡΌΝ (G4314; G3918) в настоящее время, ΔΟΚΕΊ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΔΟΚΈΩ, _см._ Hebrews 12:10. ΕΊΝΑΙ _praes. act. inf. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. Инфинитив как дополнение: "кажется" ΛΎΠΗ ...
DISCOURSE: 2336 AFFLICTIONS THE FRUIT OF GOD’S LOVE Hebrews 12:4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto child...
IT YIELDETH THE PEACEABLE FRUIT, &C.— "Though at first all chastening is in itself matter of grief, and not of joy, yet afterwards it produces quiet of mind, and such inward peace, in the progress of...
B. _Perils threatening the life of faith. Hebrews 12:4-17_. 1. _Failure to respond to chastening. Hebrews 12:4-13_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood,
DIVINE CHASTISEMENT (Hebrews 12:11) One reason, perhaps, why so little is written to-day upon Divine chastisement, and why it so rarely forms the theme of the pulpit, is because it suits not the fals...
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. JOYOUS, BUT GRIE...
1 This cloud of "witnesses" consists of those just enumerated, who witness to the life of faith. It has no reference to any who are watching the Hebrews. A witness is one who testifies, and it is the...
PEACEABLE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS] i.e. the fruit which is righteousness. The result of discipline is called 'peaceable,' or 'peaceful,' in contrast to the 'painfulness' of the process spoken of in the...
THE CONTEST. ENDURANCE, HOLINESS, AND DIVINE COMMUNION PROPOSED TO THE SONS OF GOD Inspired by the example of those victorious heroes of faith who now encompass us, we ought to run our race patiently,...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 12 THE RIGHT WAY TO LIVE 12:1-29 JESUS IS OUR EXAMPLE 12:1-3 V1 Like a great cloud, there are a lot of *witnesses round us. Let us then...
NOW NO CHASTENING... — Better (the reading being slightly changed), _All chastening seemeth for the present time to be not joyous, but grievous._ The language, so far, would seem to be perfectly gener...
CHAPTER XIV. CONFLICT. "Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with...
The Hebrews are reminded that their sufferings are tokens of God's fatherly love and care....
πᾶσα δὲ παιδεία.… Another encouragement to endure chastening: if it is allowed to do its work righteousness will result. “Now all chastisement for the present indeed seems matter not of joy but of gri...
ENDURE CHASTENING; SEEK HOLINESS Hebrews 12:9 If we are God's children, we will not look on suffering as a punishment. Chastening it may be, but not the penalty of sin. It is administered by our Fath...
After this rapid survey of the past, the writer makes his great appeal. It is that we "consider Him" who is "the Author and Perfecter of faith." The final appeals of the Epistle fall into four sectio...
SUFFERING CAN BE A FORM OF DISCIPLINE There is a hint the Hebrews were slowing in their fight or race and had forgotten the exhortations of their childhood. The author quoted Proverbs 3:11-12 as an ex...
It is true all discipline, all corrections, and sufferings in this present life, are disagreeable to our nature, because they bring not joy, but trouble and grief with them; yet afterwards, they who h...
(3) For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. (4) Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. (5) And ye h...
The apostle now resumes his great theme, Christ called a Priest of God for ever after the order of Melchisedec. He alludes, in the beginning of our chapter, to the historical facts of Genesis. We must...
11._Now no chastening, etc. _This he adds, lest we should measure God’s chastisements by our present feelings; for he shows that we are like children who dread the rod and shun it as much as they can,...
The epistle now enters on the practical exhortations that flow from its doctrinal instruction, with reference to the dangers peculiar to the Hebrew Christians - instruction suited throughout to inspir...
NOW NO CHASTENING FOR THE PRESENT SEEMETH TO BE JOYOUS,.... These words anticipate an objection, taken from the grief and sorrow that comes by afflictions; and therefore how should they be for profit...
Πᾶσα δὲ παιδεία πρὸς μὲν τὸ παρὸν οὐ δοκεῖ χαρᾶς ει῏ναι, ἀλλὰ λύπης· ὕστερον δὲ καρπὸν εἰρηνικὸν τοῖς δι᾿ αὐτῆς γεγυμνασμένοις ἀποδίδωσι δικαιοσύνης. Καρπόν. Syr., פִּארֵא דָּשְׁלָמָא וַדְזַדִּיקוּחָ...
Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby. Ver. 11. _The peac...
HEB. 12:11-13. NOW NO CHASTENING FOR THE PRESENT SEEMETH TO BE JOYOUS, BUT GRIEVOUS: NEVERTHELESS, AFTERWARD IT YIELDETH THE PEACEABLE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO THEM WHICH ARE EXERCISED THEREBY. WHE...
_Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh_ Natural parents, from whom we derived our bodies and mortal lives; _which corrected us_ For our faults; _and we gave them reverence_ Submitted patiently...
THE PEACEABLE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS; the chastisement yields, like a good tree, the good fruit of righteousness, which always has for its companion "the peace of God which passeth all understanding....
How rightly now Chapter 12 admonishes the saints of God to act by faith; for where faith is in godly exer\-cise, every honorable and true responsibility will be willingly assumed, with the confidence...
1-11 The persevering obedience of faith in Christ, was the race set before the Hebrews, wherein they must either win the crown of glory, or have everlasting misery for their portion; and it is set be...
NOW NO CHASTENING FOR THE PRESENT SEEMETH TO BE JOYOUS, BUT GRIEVOUS: a further argument to persuade Christians not to despise nor faint under the Lord's chastenings, is the good issue of them, subjoi...
Hebrews 12:11 Now G1161 no G3956 G3756 chastening G3809 seems G1380 (G5719) be G1511 (G5750) joyful...
THEY ARE NOT TO FORGET THAT CHASTENING IS GOOD WHEN IT IS AT THE HAND OF A LOVING FATHER (HEBREWS 12:5). And in as far as they are called on to suffer affliction and tribulation, to experience discomf...
‘All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields peaceable fruit to those who have been exercised by it, even the fruit of righteousness.' He recognises tha...
Hebrews 12:1-11. Exhortation with encouragement and reproof, in view of all these witnesses, and of the later example of Jesus, to maintain the conflict, and to remember the love from which all discip...
Hebrews 12:11. NOW NO CHASTENING (either God's or any other) SEEMETH FOR THE PRESENT TO BE JOYOUS, BUT GRIEVOUS (literally, a matter of joy, but of grief); NEVERTHELESS AFTERWARD IT YIELDETH THE PEACE...
FOR THE PRESENT (προς το παρον). A classical phrase (Thucydides), προς with the accusative neuter singular articular participle of παρειμ, to be beside.NOT JOYOUS, BUT GRIEVOUS (ου χαρασ, αλλα λυπ...
RIGHTEOUSNESS (_ See Scofield) - (1 John 3:7). _...
Hebrews 12:3 I. Chastisement is sent by fatherly love. There, where we are most sensitive, God touches us. The thorn in the flesh is something which we fancy we cannot bear if it were to be lifelong....
L, 2. _Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race...
After giving a long list of the heroes of faith, the apostle adds: Hebrews 12:1. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and th...
The apostle, having deserted the heroes of the faith, represents them as witnesses of the great race which Christians in all ages have to run. All through the chapter he keeps up the idea of the great...
Hebrews 12:1. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience th...
May the Spirit of God graciously instruct us while we read this chapter! You know that, in the eleventh chapter, the apostle has pictured the ancient worshipers and their victories. Imagine that you...
CONTENTS: The Father's chastening of believers and its purpose. The difference between living under law and under grace. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Esau, Moses, Abel. CONCLUSION: Christians have a race...
Hebrews 12:1. _Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses._ Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course, and...
AT THE TIME. "It makes us sad, because of the pain it brings." LATER, HOWEVER. "Those who have been disciplined, trained, matured, prepared by such punishment reap the peaceful reward!" Compare Psalms...
_Afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness_ SWEET FRUIT FROM A THORNY TREE: When our heavenly Father “puts His hand into the bitter box” and weighs out to us a portion of wormwood a...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 12:9. FATHER OF SPIRITS.—See Numbers 16:22; Numbers 27:16; Zechariah 12:1. “The Creator of
EXPOSITION The exhortation, begun at Hebrews 10:19, but interrupted at Hebrews 11:1. I by the chapter on faith, is now taken up again with increased force from the array of examples that have been add...
Shall we turn now to Hebrews, chapter 12. Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses (Hebrews 12:1), What this does not mean is that the Old Testament saints, wh...
1 Timothy 4:7; 1 Timothy 4:8; 2 Corinthians 4:17; 2 Peter 2:14;...
No chastening for the present seemeth [π α σ α μ ε ν π α ι δ ε ι α π ρ ο ς μ ε ν τ ο π α ρ ο ν ο υ δ ο κ ε ι]. Lit. all chastening - doth not seem. Pasa of all sorts, divine and human. The A. V., by j...
Now all chastening — Whether from our earthly or heavenly Father, Is for the present grievous, yet it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness — Holiness and happiness. To them that are exercised...
Our apostle in these words seems to obviate an objection against. compliance with his exhortation to bear divine chastenings with silence and submission; and this is taken from the trouble and sorrow...