Hebrews 2:1
Lest we should let them slip — As water out of a leaky vessel. So the Greek word properly signifies.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lest we should let them slip — As water out of a leaky vessel. So the Greek word properly signifies.... [ Continue Reading ]
In giving the law, God spoke by angels; but in proclaiming the gospel, by his Son. Steadfast — Firm and valid. Every transgression — Commission of sin. Every disobedience — Omission of duty.... [ Continue Reading ]
So great a salvation — A deliverance from so great wickedness and misery, into so great holiness and happiness. This was first spoken of (before he came it was not known) by Him who is the Lord — of angels as well as men. And was confirmed to us — Of this age, even every article of it. By them that... [ Continue Reading ]
By signs and wonders — While he lived. And various miracles and distributions of the Holy Ghost — Miraculous gifts, distributed after his exaltation. According to his will — Not theirs who received them.... [ Continue Reading ]
This verse contains a proof of Hebrews 2:3; the greater the salvation is, and the more glorious the Lord whom we despise, the greater will be our punishment. God hath not subjected the world to come — That is, the dispensation of the Messiah; which being to succeed the Mosaic was usually styled by t... [ Continue Reading ]
What is man — To the vast expanse of heaven, to the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained! This psalm seems to have been composed by David, in a clear, moonshiny, and starlight night, while he was contemplating the wonderful fabric of heaven; because in his magnificent description of its lumin... [ Continue Reading ]
Thou hast made him — Adam. A little lower than the angels — The Hebrew is, a little lower than (that is, next to) God. Such was man as he came out of the hands of his Creator: it seems, the highest of all created beings. But these words are also in a farther sense, as the apostle here shows, applica... [ Continue Reading ]
Now this putting all things under him, implies that there is nothing that is not put under him. But it is plain, this is not done now, with regard to man in general.... [ Continue Reading ]
It is done only with regard to Jesus, God — Man, who is now crowned with glory and honour — As a reward for his having suffered death. He was made a little lower than the angels — Who cannot either suffer or die. That by the grace of God, he might taste death — An expression denoting both the realit... [ Continue Reading ]
In this verse the apostle expresses, in his own words, what he expressed before in those of the Psalmist. It became him — It was suitable to all his attributes, both to his justice, goodness, and wisdom. For whom — As their ultimate end. And by whom — As their first cause. Are all things, in bringin... [ Continue Reading ]
For — They are nearly related to each other. He that sanctifieth — Christ, Hebrews 13:12. And all they that are sanctified — That are brought to God; that draw near or come to him, which are synonymous terms. Are all of one — Partakers of one nature, from one parent, Adam.... [ Continue Reading ]
I will declare thy name to my brethren — Christ declares the name of God, gracious and merciful, plenteous in goodness and truth, to all who believe, that they also may praise him. In the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee — As the precentor of the choir. This he did literally, in the... [ Continue Reading ]
And again — As one that has communion with his brethren in sufferings, as well as in nature, he says, I will put my trust in him — To carry me through them all. And again — With a like acknowledgment of his near relation to them, as younger brethren, who were yet but in their childhood, he presents... [ Continue Reading ]
Since then these children partake of flesh and blood — Of human nature with all its infirmities. He also in like manner took part of the same; that through his own death he might destroy the tyranny of him that had, by God's permission, the power of death with regard to the ungodly. Death is the dev... [ Continue Reading ]
And deliver them, as many as through fear of death were all their lifetime, till then, subject to bondage — Every man who fears death is subject to bondage; is in a slavish, uncomfortable state. And every man fears death, more or less, who knows not Christ: death is unwelcome to him, if he knows wha... [ Continue Reading ]
For verily he taketh not hold of angels — He does not take their nature upon him. But he taketh hold of the seed of Abraham — He takes human nature upon him. St. Paul says the seed of Abraham, rather than the seed of Adam, because to Abraham was the promise made.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherefore it behoved him — It was highly fit and proper, yea, necessary, in order to his design of redeeming them. To be made in all things — That essentially pertain to human nature, and in all sufferings and temptations. Like his brethren — This is a recapitulation of all that goes before: the sum... [ Continue Reading ]
For in that he hath suffered being tempted himself he is able to succour them that are tempted — That is, he has given a manifest, demonstrative proof that he is able so to do.... [ Continue Reading ]