THIS chapter is of the same nature and carrieth on the same design with that foregoing. That contained an exhortation unto faith, obedience, and perseverance, enforced by an instance in the pernicious event or punishment which befell them who were guilty of sin contrary unto those duties. And this w... [ Continue Reading ]
Φοβηθῶμεν ου῏ν, μή ποτε, καταλειπομένης ἐπαγγελίας εἰσελθεῖν εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσιν αὐτοῦ, δοκῇ τις ἐξ ὑμῶν ὑστερηκέναι. Καὶ γάρ ἐσμεν εὐγγελισμένοι, καθάπερ κάκεῖνοι· ἀλλ ᾿οὐκ ὠφέλησεν ὁ λόγος τῆς ἀκοῆς ἐκείνους, μή συγκεκραμένος τῇ πίστε τοῖς ἀκούσασιν. Hebrews 4:1. Φοβηθῶμεν ου῏ν, “timeamus ergo,” “... [ Continue Reading ]
Many have variously reasoned and conjectured about the coherence of this part of the apostle's discourse with that which immediately goeth before. It is not my way to propose the interpretations or analyses of others, much less to contend about them, unless necessity for the vindication of some impo... [ Continue Reading ]
The next verse gives the reason of the preceding mention of the works of God and the finishing of them. blow this was not for their own sakes, but because of a rest that ensued thereon, the rest of God, and a day of rest as a token of it, and a pledge of our interest therein, or entrance into it. Th... [ Continue Reading ]
Καὶ ἐν τούτῳ πάλιν· Εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου. Καὶ ἐν τούτῳ, “and in this,” or “here,” ἐν τούτῳ/ τῷ ψαλμῷ, “in this psalm:” or τόπῳ, “in this place;” that is, in the place of Scripture under consideration and exposition, namely the 95th Psalm, or the words of the Holy Ghost by David t... [ Continue Reading ]
Having thus removed an objection that might arise against the new proposal of a rest of God distinct from the sabbatical rest, which was appointed from the foundation of the world, and manifested that although there was in the state of nature, or under the law of our creation, a working and rest of... [ Continue Reading ]
Πάλιν τινὰ ὁρίλει ἡμέραν, Σήμερον, ἐν Δαβὶδ λέγων, μετὰ τοσοῦτον χρόνον, καθὼς εἴρηται, σήμερον ¸ ἐὰν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσητε, μὴ σκληρύνητε τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν. Some MSS. for εἴρηται, “said,” or “spoken,” read προείρηται _,_ “forespoken,” or “foretold.” Μετὰ τοσοῦτον χρόνον _,_ “post tantum tempus,”... [ Continue Reading ]
In this verse the apostle gives a further confirmation unto his argument by a particular application of it unto the especial matter in hand. Herewithal he removeth or preventeth an objection that might probably be raised against one part of his discourse. And the preventing of such objections as whe... [ Continue Reading ]
Having passed through his testimonies and arguments, the apostle in this and the following verse lays down both what he hath evinced in his whole disputation, as also the general foundation of it, in answer to the principles of his preceding discourse. Hebrews 4:9. ῎Αρα ἀπολείτεται σαββατισμὸς τῷ λ... [ Continue Reading ]
῾Ο γὰρ εἰσελθὼν εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσιν αὐτοῦ, καὶ αὐτὸς κατέπαυσεν ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων αὐτοῦ, ὥσπερ ἀπὸ τῶν ἰδίων ὁ Θεός. There is no difficulty in these words, nor difference in the translation of them. Hebrews 4:10 . For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his works, as God from his... [ Continue Reading ]
In this verse we have a return made unto, and an improvement of the principal exhortation which the apostle had before proposed. In the first verse he laid it down in these words, “Let us fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.” Here he... [ Continue Reading ]
These next verses contain as new enforcement of the precedent exhortation, taken from the consideration of the means of the event threatened in case of unbelief. Two things are apt to arise in the minds of men for their relief against the fear of such comminations as are proposed unto them: 1. Tha... [ Continue Reading ]
῾Εχοντες οὗν ἀρχιερέα μέγαν διεληλυθότα τοὺς οὐρανοὺς, ᾿Ιησοῦν τὸν Υἱὸν τοῦ Θεοῦ, κρατῶμεν τῆς ὁμολογίας. Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that passed into [_through_] the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. There being no difficulty in the words in the ori... [ Continue Reading ]
In the close of this chapter the apostle gives us a summary improvement of all the foregoing discourses and arguings contained in it. Especially he insists on a double inference unto the practice of those duties which, by his former reasonings, he had evinced to be incumbent on all professors of the... [ Continue Reading ]
But this precedent description of our high priest may be thought to include a discouragement in it in reference unto us, which may take off from all the encouragements which might be apprehended to lie in his office. For if he be in himself so great and glorious, if so exalted above the heavens, how... [ Continue Reading ]
The last verse of this chapter contains an inference from what was discoursed in the two foregoing, as the contexture of the words declares. The exhortation is insisted on, Hebrews 4:14, that we would “hold fast our profession” unto the end. The motive and encouragement hereunto is taken from the co... [ Continue Reading ]