Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Hebrews 12:8
Then are ye bastards, and not sons— The meaning is, "No care is taken of you; no concern is shewn about your welfare."
Then are ye bastards, and not sons— The meaning is, "No care is taken of you; no concern is shewn about your welfare."
Verse Hebrews 12:8. _THEN ARE YE BASTARDS_] This proceeds on the general fact, that _bastards_ are neglected in their manners and education; the fathers of such, feeling little affection for, or obli...
BUT IF YE BE WITHOUT CHASTISEMENT - If you never meet with anything that is adapted to correct your faults; to subdue your temper; to chide your wanderings, it would prove that you were in the conditi...
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)...
IF. Greek. _ei_. App-118. WITHOUT. Greek. _choris._ See Hebrews 4:15. CHASTISEMENT. chastening, as verses: Hebrews 12:5; Hebrews 12:7;...
_whereof all are partakers_ He speaks of God's blessed and disciplinary chastisement as a gift in which all His sons have their share....
ΠΆΝΤΕΣ. He speaks of God’s blessed and disciplinary chastisement as a gift in which all His sons have their share. ἌΡΑ. See note on Hebrews 4:9....
FATHERLY CHASTISEMENTS SHOULD BE CHEERFULLY ENDURED...
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...
_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...
ΈΣΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. Ind. в _conj._ 2 типа, содержащем утверждение, противоречащее факту, ΜΈΤΟΧΟΣ (G3353) участник, партнер, ΓΕΓΌΝΑΣΙΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) с...
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...
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 12:7, Hebrews 12:8) The all-important matter in connection with Divine chastenings, so far as the Christian is concerned, is the spirit in which he receives them. Whether...
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. IF YE BE WITHOUT, [ chooris (G5565)] - wishing to be removed from it. ALL - all sons: all the worthi...
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...
12:8 partakers, (l-13) _ Metochos_ , see Note q at ch. 2.14....
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...
WHEREOF ALL ARE PARTAKERS. — Better, _whereof all_ (God’s children) _have been made partakers._ Were it possible that they have never known this fatherly “chastening,” it must be that they are not son...
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....
PERSISTENTLY PRESS FORWARD Hebrews 12:1 In one of Raphael's pictures the clouds, when looked at minutely, are seen to be composed of little cherub-faces; and those who have already witnessed and suff...
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...
In these last four verses we may observe as many subjects of consolation under afflictions. God, our Father, is the author of them; the chastisement he inflicts is the proof of his love; it is the sig...
(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...
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...
BUT IF YE BE WITHOUT CHASTISEMENT,.... Or have no affliction: WHEREOF ALL ARE PARTAKERS; that is, all the children of God; they are all alike children; they are all in a state of imperfection, and pr...
Εἰ δὲ χρωίς ἐστε παιδείας, ἧς μέτοχοι γεγόνασι πάντες, ἄρα νόθοι ἐστὲ, καὶ οὐχ υἱσί. Νόθοι _._ Syr., נּוּכְיָיֵא “aliens,” “foreigners,” “strangers.” Vulg. Lat.,” adulteri;” which the Rhem. render “b...
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons. Ver. 8. _Then are ye bastards_] _Qui exclpitur a numero flagellatorum, excipitur a numero filiorum, _...
HEB. 12:8. BUT IF YE BE WITHOUT CHASTISEMENT, WHEREOF ALL ARE PARTAKERS, THEN ARE YE BASTARDS, AND NOT SONS. Rather strangely perhaps this text is claimed in support of admitting to church membershi...
_And ye have forgotten_, &c. As if he had said, If you faint it will appear you have forgotten, _the exhortation_ Wherein God speaks to you with the utmost tenderness; _as unto_ his own dear _children...
ALL; the children of God. ARE YE BASTARDS; treated as such; your faults are not corrected, but you are left to go unreformed to ruin....
The chastening of God to assist us:...
BUT IF YE BE WITHOUT CHASTISEMENT, WHEREOF ALL ARE PARTAKERS, THEN ARE YE BASTARDS, AND NOT SONS. The inspired writer here adds another thought to his appeal, namely, that his readers have by no means...
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...
But if God chasten you not, or if he do, and ye have not grace, or do not rightly endure it, are not managing yourselves well under it, nor are profited by it, when all and every one of his children a...
Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II If, therefore, any one be slandered and falsely accused, such a one is blessed; for the Scripture says, "A man that is a reprobate is not tried by God."[46]...
Hebrews 12:8 But G1161 if G1487 are G2075 (G5748) without G5565 chastening G3809 which G3739 all G3956 become...
‘But if you are without chastening, of which all have been made partakers, then are you bastards, and not sons.' Indeed God's disciplining and chastening is a sign of high favour. It is the true born...
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...
Hebrews 12:8. IF YE BE WITHOUT (be severed from, have no part in) CHASTISEMENT (filial discipline), OF WHICH ALL (God's sons, or better, because of the tense, the sons mentioned in chap. 11) HAVE BECO...
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...
IF YE ARE WITHOUT CHASTENING (ε χωρις εστε παιδειας). Condition of first class, determined as fulfilled. Note position of εστε (are) between the preposition χωρις and παιδειας (ablative case).HAVE...
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...
IF YOU ARE NOT. "The fathers of bastards have no concern about the health, welfare, and education of them....
_If ye endure chastening_ CHASTENING: WHAT IS IT? “It is for chastening that ye endure”--such is the reading and translation in the R.V. That is the purpose sought and prized; an end that sufficient...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 12:5 Verses Hebrews 12:5 cite Proverbs 3:11. Discipline
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 12:3. CONSIDER.—Place your sufferings in comparison with His. AGAINST HIMSELF.—R.V. renders “against themselves,” which is a well-supported reading. WEARIED.—R...
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 Peter 5:10; 1 Peter 5:9; Hebrews 12:6; Psalms 73:1; Psalms 73:14;...
Of which all are partakers [η ς μ ε τ ο χ ο ι γ ε γ ο ν α σ ι π α ν τ ε ς]. Rend. "of which all have been made partakers." For metocoi partakers see on ch. Hebrews 3:14. All, that is, all sons of God....
Of which all sons are partakers — More or less....