That is, hereby we shall declare ourselves to be made partakers of Christ and his saving benefit, if we persevere in the faith of the gospel, of which we have begun to make. profession of Christianity, either through fear or flattery, were never made partakers of Christ, nor savingly united to him: No better evidence of our interest in Christ, than what perseverance gives.
Verse 14. _FOR WE ARE MADE PARTAKERS OF CHRIST_] Having believed in Christ as the promised Messiah, and embraced the whole Christian system, they were consequently made partakers of all its _benefits...
FOR WE ARE MADE PARTAKERS OF CHRIST - We are spiritually united to the Saviour. We become one with him. We partake of his spirit and his allotments. The sacred writers are accustomed to describe the C...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. As Son over the house of God, greater than Moses (Hebrews 3:1)_ 2. The danger of unbelief (Hebrews 3:7) 3. The need of faith (Hebrews 3:14)...
HEBREWS 3:1 TO HEBREWS 4:13. As Christ is higher than the angels, so He is _greater than Moses,_ through whom the first covenant was established. The comparison with Moses, however, occupies only a fe...
HEBREWS 3:7 TO HEBREWS 4:13. With this warning the comparison between Christ and Moses changes into an exhortation, based on Psalms 95:7. This psalm is concerned with the house or community of which M...
So then, as the Holy Spirit says, "If today you will hear my voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the Provocation, as happened on the day of the Temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tri...
GREATER THAN THE GREATEST (Hebrews 3:1-6)...
ARE MADE. have become. BEGINNING. Greek. _arche._ See App-172. CONFIDENCE. Greek. _hupostasis_. See Hebrews 1:3. STEDFAST. See Hebrews 3:6 with Hebrews 2:2....
_we are made_ Rather, "we are become." _partakers of Christ_ Rather, "partakers _with_Christ," for the thought of mystical union with Christ extending into spiritual unity and identity, which makes th...
A solemn warning against hardening the heart [This constant interweaving of warning and exhortation with argument is characteristic of this Epistle. These passages (Hebrews 2:1-4; Hebrews 3:7-19; Heb...
CH. 3. SUPERIORITY OF CHRIST TO MOSES (1–6). EXHORTATION AGAINST HARDENING THE HEART (7–19)...
A SOLEMN WARNING AGAINST HARDENING THE HEART [The constant interweaving of warning and exhortation with argument is characteristic of this Epistle. These passages (Hebrews 2:1-4; Hebrews 3:7-19; Hebre...
ΜΈΤΟΧΟΙ ΤΟΥ͂ ΧΡΙΣΤΟΥ͂. Lit., “_partakers of Christ_,” but the meaning may rather be “partakers _with_ Christ”; for the thought of mystical union with Christ extending into spiritual unity and identity...
_CHRIST DEMANDS THAT WE HOLD ON TO OUR FAITH -- HEBREWS 3:12-15:_ Christians must be careful that they do not sin. Sin is a departure from God. Unbelief, in particular, is the root of all such departu...
ΜΈΤΟΧΟΣ (G3353) соучастник, совладелец. Об этой фразе _см._ Hughes; Michel, ΓΕΓΌΝΑΜΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться. _Perf._ означает, что читатели стали и сейчас являются соучастн...
DISCOURSE: 2280 AGAINST DEPARTING FROM GOD Hebrews 3:12. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God, But exhort, one another daily, wh...
FOR WE ARE MADE PARTAKERS, &C.— "For the benefits which we have from Christ, and that eternal salvation, even our rest, which he hath promised to us, are only to be had upon the condition, that we hol...
_Our pilgrimageHebrews 3:12-19_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 3:12-19 Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the liv
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO MOSES. (Hebrews 3:13-19) There are two great basic truths which run through Scripture, and are enforced on every page: that God is sovereign, and that man is a responsible creature...
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; FOR ... Enforcing the warning, Hebrews 3:12. PARKERS OF CHRIST (cf. Hebrews 3:1;...
7 The Hebrew of Psa_95:7-11 reads ''as at Meribah" and "the day of Massah", and the passage refers to the twentieth of Numbers. The quotation substitutes their meanings. Meribah is "contention," or "b...
3:14 companions (i-5) _ Metochos_ , as ch. 1.9 (quoting Psalms 45:7 ), to which it alludes. It is not 'partakers of Christ.'...
JESUS CHRIST, LORD OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GODS (_b_) Christ is superior also to Moses; for He is Son over the house of God, whereas Moses was only a servant in it....
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 2 THE SUPERIOR *APOSTLE 3:1-4:13 JESUS IS SUPERIOR TO MOSES 3:1-6 V1 Brothers and sisters in Christ who belong to God, you share the...
FOR. — Take heed (Hebrews 3:12) lest there be anything that may lead astray, _for we have become partakers of the Christ if_ (and only if) w_e hold the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end._...
Hebrews 3:13 7. THE JUDGMENT TO COME Malachi 3:13; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 4:1 This is another charge to the doubters among the
CHAPTER III. FUNDAMENTAL ONENESS OF THE DISPENSATIONS. Hebrews 3:1 - Hebrews 4:13 (R.V.). "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High-priest of our conf...
μέτοχοι γὰρ.… In Hebrews 3:6 the writer had adduced as the reason of his warning (βλέπετε) that participation in the salvation of Christ depended on continuance in the confident expectation that their...
Διὸ, “wherefore,” since it is only by holding fast our confidence to the end, that we continue to be the house of Christ and enjoy His faithful oversight, _cf._ Hebrews 3:14. Διὸ was probably intended...
to Hebrews 4:13. Chapter s 3 and 4 as far as Hebrews 3:13, form one paragraph. The purpose of the writer in this passage, as in the whole Epistle, is to encourage his readers in their allegiance to Ch...
“HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS” Hebrews 3:12 There is a peril lest familiarity with God's words should beget indifference to them. The path may be trodden hard by the sower's feet. That story of the Wildern...
The argument now passed to the second claim of superiority, that over all human leaders. He is first seen as superior to Moses and Joshua. He is "the Apostle" completely fulfilling the function repres...
EXHORTATION TO FAITHFULNESS So that they will not fall, Christians are to encourage one another every day. This is done so that sin and its tricky ways will not be able to harden a believer in the way...
(8) For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the (k) beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; (8) Now he considers these words, "If you hear his voice" showing that they are spoken a...
You have already been made partakers of the benefits of Christ, at your conversion and baptism, to the beginning of his substance, [2] by which seems to be understood the faith of Christ. (Witham) ---...
(7) Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, (8) Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: (9) When your fathers tempted me...
The epistle to the Hebrews differs in some important respects from all those which have been before us; so much so that many have questioned whether it be the writing of the apostle Paul, of Apollos,...
14._For we are made partakers, etc. _He commends them for having begun well; but lest, under the pretext of the grace which they had obtained, they should indulge themselves in carnal security, he say...
Thus the Lord is set before us as the Apostle and High Priest of believers from among the Jews, the true people. I say,"from among the Jews," not that He is not our Priest, but that here the sacred wr...
FOR WE ARE MADE PARTAKERS OF CHRIST,.... Being loved by him, given to him, and chosen in him before the foundation of the world; and so participate of all spiritual blessings in him; for this respects...
In the close of this chapter the apostle makes application of the example which he had produced out of the psalmist unto his present purpose; namely, to dehort the Hebrews from that sin which in them...
For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; Ver. 14: _For we are made partakers_] Christ's consorts, co-heirs with him, Romans 8:17. This we...
HEB. 3:14. FOR WE ARE MADE PARTAKERS OF CHRIST, IF WE HOLD THE BEGINNING OF OUR CONFIDENCE STEADFAST UNTO THE END. _ Blank Bible:_ _ partakers of Christ_] It might have been rendered as partakers f...
_For we are made partakers of Christ_ Of all the blessings procured by his death, and offered in his gospel, even of pardon, holiness, and eternal life; _if we hold_ If we retain with constancy and pe...
PARTAKERS OF CHRIST; united to him by faith, and entitled to his favor, and the enjoyment of the rest provided by him for his people....
A warning lesson from the history of Moses:...
FOR WE ARE MADE PARTAKERS OF CHRIST IF WE HOLD THE BEGINNING OF OUR CONFIDENCE STEADFAST UNTO THE END. The last thought in the first paragraph of the chapter had been that of persevering faith and tru...
"Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling." Let us keep in mind that this is addressed to Jewish believers. How great a contrast to that which their own religion had taught them! Ea...
14-19 The saints' privilege is, they are made partakers of Christ, that is, of the Spirit, the nature, graces, righteousness, and life of Christ; they are interested in all Christ is, in all he has d...
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A Letter from Origen to Gregory May you also be a partaker, and be ever increasing your inheritance, that you may say not only, "We are become partakers of Christ,"[7] Letter of Origen to Gregory M...
Hebrews 3:14 For G1063 become G1096 (G5754) partakers G3353 Christ G5547 if G1437 G4007 hold G2722 ...
Hebrews 3:14. WE ARE MADE PARTAKEN; rather, ‘we are become,' _i.e_ we are now what we were not originally. The words describe a _present_ character and an _acquired_ character. IF, THAT IS, WE HOLD...
FOR WE ARE BECOME PARTAKERS OF CHRIST (μετοχο γαρ του Χριστου γεγοναμεν). Second perfect active of γινομα, "we have become," not the equivalent of εσμεν (are). For μετοχο see Hebrews 1:9; Hebrews 3:...
PARTAKERS Companions; the same word translated, "fellows" in (Hebrews 1:9)....
Hebrews 3:7 Unbelief in the Wilderness. I. The history of the wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness is most instructive. No Scripture is of private interpretation, but is Catholic and eterna...
Hebrews 3:1. _Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;_ Think of him, think how great he is, think what attent...
Hebrews 3:1. _Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus:_ Oh, that he had more consideration at our hands! Cons...
Hebrews 3:1. _Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus._ Would God we considered him more! He is supremely wor...
CONTENTS: Christ the Son better than Moses the servant. Warning against unbelief. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Moses. CONCLUSION: We owe to Jesus Christ as the principal messenger sent of Go...
Hebrews 3:1. _Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,_ who, as the sons of God, are called to eternal glory, _consider the Apostle and Highpriest of our profession,_ that he unite...
PARTNERS WITH CHRIST. Compare notes on Hebrews 3:6 AT THE BEGINNING. See Hebrews 6:4-6; Hebrews 11:1; Romans 5:1-2....
_We are made partakers of Christ_ PARTNERS OF CHRIST There is nothing that Christ hath, but we have part of it. His wisdom, holiness, His righteousness is ours; yea, His kingdom is ours. We are heir...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 3:14 The true Christian will endure TO THE END. The condition (IF INDEED) has been understood in various ways. Some have argued that the condition (“if”) indicates that true Ch...
HEBREWS 3:1 Jesus Is Superior to the Mosaic Law. Having concluded that Jesus is superior to the mediators of the Mosaic law (angels, Hebrews 2:2), the author now establishes Jesus’ superiority to Mose...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 3:7 form part of an exhortation, based on the superiority of Christ over Moses, and the conduct of the Jewish people in their relation to Moses. They were the c...
EXPOSITION THE SON SUPERIOR TO MOSES. Here begins the second section of the argument of the first four chapters (see summary given under Hebrews 1:5). But though a new branch of the argument begins, i...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Hebrews the third chapter. Wherefore, holy brethren (Hebrews 3:1), The word wherefore immediately leads us back to that which is immediately preceding, and that is...
1 Corinthians 1:30; 1 Corinthians 10:17; 1 Corinthians 9:23; 1 John 1:3;...
We are made partakers of Christ [μ ε τ ο χ ο ι γ α ρ τ ο υ χ ρ ι σ τ ο υ γ ε γ ο ν α μ ε ν]. Rend. we are become fellows with Christ. For fellows see Luke 5:7; Hebrews 1:9. It marks even a closer rela...
For we are made partakers of Christ — And we shall still partake of him and all his benefits, if we hold fast our faith unto the end. If — But not else; and a supposition made by the Holy Ghost is equ...