Shepherd of Hermas Commandment Fourth
And therefore I say to you, that if any one is tempted by the devil, and sins after that great and holy calling. in which the Lord has called His people to everlasting life,[13]
Verse 16. _LEST THERE_ be _any fornicator_] Any licentious person who would turn the Gospel of the grace of God into lasciviousness. _OR PROFANE PERSON, AS ESAU_] It is not intimated that Esau was a...
LEST THERE BE ANY FORNICATOR - The sin here referred to is one of those which would spread corruption in the church, and against which they ought to be especially on their guard. Allusion is made to E...
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 ...
As the community is to bear up bravely under persecution, so it is to watch carefully over the purity of its own life. There must be no strife or dissension; above all, there must be moral consecratio...
So, then, lift up the slack hands. Strengthen the weak knees. And make straight the paths of your feet so that the bones of the lame may not be completely dislocated but rather may be cured. Make peac...
THE RACE AND THE GOAL (Hebrews 12:1-2)...
PROFANE. Greek. _bebelos._ See 1 Timothy 1:9. MORSEL OF MEAT. Greek. _brosis._ See Romans 14:17. SOLD. Greek. _apodidomi._ Same as "yield", Hebrews 12:11. HIS. The texts read ...
_any fornicator_ The word must be taken in a literal sense, since Esau was not "an idolator." It is true that Esau is not charged with fornication in the Book of Genesis (which only speaks of his heat...
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...
ἈΠΈΔΟΤΟ אDKL. In AC ἀπέδετο, which is probably a mere oversight, and a form which has no authority. 16. ΠΌΡΝΟΣ. The word must be taken in a literal sense, since Esau was not “an idolater.” It is true...
NEED OF EARNEST WATCHFULNESS...
_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...
ΠΌΡΝΟΣ (G4205) аморальный, ΒΈΒΗΛΟΣ (G952) профан, нечестивец, неверующий (TLNT). ΉΣΑ (G2269) Исав, ΒΡΏΣΙΣ mini) пища, ΆΠΈΔΕΤΟ _aor. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΆΠΟΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G591) продавать, ΠΡΩΤΟΤΌΚΙΑ (G4...
DISCOURSE: 2338 THE DANGER OF DESPISING OR DISHONOURING THE GOSPEL Hebrews 12:15. Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and th...
LEST THERE BE ANY FORNICATOR— We must not imagine that the apostle here mentions Esau as an example of the crime of fornication; for nothing appears in the history to shew that Esau was more guilty of...
_Falling short of the grace of God. Hebrews 12:14-17_ _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:14-17 Hebrews 12:14 Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see t
A WARNING AGAINST APOSTASY (Hebrews 12:16, Hebrews 12:17) The verses which we are now to consider are among the most solemn to be found in the Word of God. They present a most pointed warning against...
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. FORNICATOR (Hebrews 13:4; 1 Corinthians 10:8). OR PROFANE. Fornication is nearly akin to g...
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...
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,...
ANY FORNICATOR] In the OT. apostasy from Jehovah is frequently described as adultery or fornication, being a breach of covenant; but here the word should perhaps be understood in the literal sense: cp...
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...
LEST THERE BE. — Better (as in the last verse), _whether there be._ Though Jewish tradition (see, for example, the Targum of Palestine on Genesis 25:29) affirms that Esau was a man of impure life, it...
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...
μή τις πόρνος … specific forms in which roots of bitterness might appear among them. πόρνος is to be taken in its literal sense and not as signifying departure from God [but _cf._ Weiss]. Neither is i...
The Hebrews are reminded that their sufferings are tokens of God's fatherly love and care....
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...
AN EXHORTATION TO CONTINUE TO THE END OF THE RACE The writer urged the Hebrews to take strength from knowing God loved them and continue the race. To aid in this, he encouraged them to choose as strai...
(11) Lest there [be] any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. (11) We must shun immorality, and a profane mind, that is, such a mind as does not giv...
Or profane person, as Esau, who had so little regard for the blessing and inheritance of his father, that he sold his right of first-begotten for one mess of broth, and afterwards found no place for r...
(15) Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled; (16) Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person,...
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...
_PROFANITY_ ‘Looking diligently … lest there be any … profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.’ Hebrews 12:15 It seems to us, as we read the old story, to have been...
_THE WARNING FROM ESAU_ ‘Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.’ Hebrews 12:16 Esau stands out as a solemn warning to us as one who was guilty of the profanity of bartering away his...
16._Lest there be any fornicator or profane person, etc. _As he had before exhorted them to holiness, so now, that he might reclaim them from defilements opposed to it, he mentions a particular kind o...
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...
LEST THERE BE ANY FORNICATOR OR PROFANE PERSON,.... The first of these is guilty of a sin against the second table of the law, as well as against his own body; and which is opposed to the holiness the...
Μή τις πόρνος ἢ βέβηλος ὡς ᾿Ησαῦ, ὅς ἀντὶ βρώσεως μιᾶς ἀπέδοτο τὰ πρωτοτόκια αὑτοῦ· ἴστε γὰρ ὅτι καὶ μετέπειτα θέλων κληρονομῆσαι τὴν εὐλογίαν ἀπεδοκιμάσθη· μετανοίας γὰγ τόπον οὐχ εὗρε, καίπερ μετὰ δ...
Lest there _be_ any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. Ver. 16. _Fornicator or profane_] He instanceth in some roots of bitterness. Esau's profane...
HEB. 12:16. LEST THERE (BE) ANY FORNICATOR, OR PROFANE PERSON, AS ESAU, WHO FOR ONE MORSEL OF MEAT SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT. In the "Folly of Procrastination" Hebrews 12:16 shows the danger of counting o...
_Looking diligently_ With the greatest attention, watchfulness, and care, for yourselves and each other; for Christ hath ordained that the members of the same church or society should mutually watch o...
FORNICATOR-PROFANE PERSON; examples of the "root of bitterness" just referred to. A profane person is here one who, like Esau, despises sacred things and gives up spiritual blessings for sensual enjoy...
LEST THERE BE ANY FORNICATOR OR PROFANE PERSON, AS ESAU, WHO FOR ONE MORSEL OF MEAT SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT....
A WARNING AGAINST APOSTASY ON THE BASIS OF THE EXCELLENCY OF THE NEW COVENANT. The warning example of Esau:...
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...
12-17 A burden of affliction is apt to make the Christian's hands hang down, and his knees grow feeble, to dispirit him and discourage him; but against this he must strive, that he may better run his...
OLBGrk; This properly interprets the _root of bitterness_ before, by two special fruits of it. LEST THERE BE ANY FORNICATOR: uncleanness, pornov, is not to be taken so strictly, as only to note fornic...
Hebrews 12:16 lest G3361 any G5100 fornicator G4205 or G2228 person G952 like G5613 Esau G2269 who G3739 for...
‘Lest there be any fornication, or profane person, as Esau, who for one portion of food sold his own birthright. For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was reject...
Hebrews 12:16. LEST THERE BE ANY FORNICATOR (taken literally, as is the uniform meaning in the New Testament except in Revelation), or PROFANE PERSON (rather, worldly person; one who has no sense of t...
Hebrews 12:12-17. Further exhortations. Hebrews 12:12. WHEREFORE (connecting the practical appeals, as is usual in this Epistle, with the reasoning and imagery of the previous verses) LIFT UP (make st...
PROFANE (βεβηλος). Trodden under foot, unhallowed (1 Timothy 1:9).FOR ONE MESS OF MEAT (αντ βρωσεως μιας). Idea of exchange, "for one act of eating" (1 Corinthians 8:4).SOLD (απεδετο). Second ao...
Hebrews 12:16 Profanity in the Home. In Scripture there are few characters more profitable for study than Esau. Whether we look at his circumstances, or his temper, or the line along which the traged...
Hebrews 12:14 Peace and Holiness. The two exhortations to follow peace with all men and that holiness without which none can see the Lord comprise the whole Christian life. I. The characteristic fea...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
LIKE ESAU. He is a _bad example_ of the _bitter plant._ He thought so little of his rights as the older son, that he literally _gave them away_ for a single meal. Immorality is always a danger, and ma...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 12:16 ESAU is called UNHOLY, probably for rejecting his birthright (Genesis 25:33)....
_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 Corinthians 10:8; 1 Corinthians 5:1; 1 Corinthians 5:9; 1 Corinthians 6:15;...
Fornicator [π ο ρ ν ο ς]. In the literal sense, as always in N. T. Profane person [β ε β η λ ο ς]. See on 1 Timothy 1:9. As Esau. Only the epithet profane is applied to Esau, not fornicator. For one m...
Esau was profane for so slighting the blessing which went along with the birth — right....
Our apostle proceeds in these verses to warn them against such sins as would occasion their apostasy and falling from the grace of God, and they are fornication and profaneness; together, because they...