_WE OUGHT TO BE OBEDIENT TO CHRIST JESUS, AND THAT BECAUSE HE VOUCHSAFED TO TAKE OUR NATURE UPON HIM, AS IT WAS NECESSARY._ _Anno Domini 63._ THE foregoing display of the greatness of the Son of God being designed, not only to give theobjections of the Jews their full force, but to make mankind se... [ Continue Reading ]
LEST AT ANY TIME WE SHOULD LET THEM SLIP.— The word Παραρρυωμεν, rendered, _we should let them slip,_ signifies properly, _we should fall off,_ or _fall away;_ namely, from the true religion, and saving grace. In the LXX this verb answers to the Hebrew לז _lez,_ to _decline,—depart,_ Proverbs 3:21 w... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR, IF THE WORD SPOKEN BY ANGELS— See Acts 7:53. Galatians 3:19 If the law was given by _angels_ to _Moses,_ (though the _Logos_ undoubtedly presided among them and over them, on that solemn occasion,) but what was delivered to _us_ was given by the _Son_ himself; if, in the one case, he made use o... [ Continue Reading ]
HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE, &C.!— The _Jews_ had no reason to imagine that God would remit the punishments threatened in the law, if they resolved to adhere to it, and would not embrace the condition of faith in Christ which was offered to them: for the law had never been repealed, but continued in its ori... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR UNTO THE ANGELS— _"Angels,_ as I told you, are only ministering spirits; and though the law was given by them, yet in the present dispensation they have nothing to do in dispensing the gospel: for it is the Son of God, the _Lord of all things,_ to whom is reserved the sole dominion over, and dir... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT ONE IN A CERTAIN PLACE, &C.— "Nor think it strange, that a man should be invested with such extraordinary power; for as the Psalmist says of manin general, that he is _Lord of all the creation;_ that, low and mean, and helpless in ten thousand instances, as he seems to be, yet _all things_ are i... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT BECAME HIM, &C.— Very different are the explanations given of this passage; that which appears to me the plainest and most just, is as follows: Hebrews 2:10. "Such has been the conduct of God in the great affair of our redemption; and the beauty and harmony of it will be apparent in proportio... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR VERILY HE TOOK NOT ON HIM, &C.— The version of the margin is here to be preferred, wherewith the Vulgate agrees. The word επιλαμβανεται is used several times in the New Testament with a genitive case, as in this place, and always in the sense of _taking hold._ See ch. Hebrews 8:9. Matthew 14:31.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREFORE IN ALL THINGS, &C.— In taking flesh and blood, in sufferings, in death; for the next clause, see Romans 8:3.Philippians 2:7. The following words may be rendered, _that he might be merciful, and a faithful High-priest; merciful,_ in that being tempted, he is able to succour them that are te... [ Continue Reading ]