Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Hebrews 10:34
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring (r) substance.
(r) Goods and riches.
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring (r) substance.
(r) Goods and riches.
HEBREWS 10:34 desmi,oij {B} The reading that best explains the origin of the others is desmi,oij, which is supported by good representatives of both the Alexandrian and the Western types of text, as...
Verse 34. _YE HAD COMPASSION OF ME IN MY BONDS_] συνεπαθησατε. _Ye suffered with me, ye sympathized with me_, when bound for the testimony of Jesus. This probably refers to the sympathy they showed t...
FOR YE HAD COMPASSION OF ME IN MY BONDS - You sympathized with me when a prisoner, and sent to my relief. It is not known to what particular instance of imprisonment the apostle here refers. It is pro...
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Remember the former days. Remember how, after you had been enlightened, you had to go through a hard struggle of suffering, partly because you yourselves were held up to insult and involved in afflict...
HAD COMPASSION OF. sympathized with. Greek. _sumpatheo._ See Hebrews 4:15. OF ME, &C. The texts read "of prisoners". Greek. _desmios_ instead of _desmios._ JOYFULLY. with (Greek. _meta._ App-104.) j...
_ye had compassion of me in my bonds_ This reading had more to do than anything else with the common assumption that this Epistle was written by St Paul. The true reading however undoubtedly is not το...
WORDS OF APPEAL AND ENCOURAGEMENT...
CH. 10. The first eighteen verses of this chapter are a summary, rich with fresh thoughts and illustrations, of the topics on which he has been dwelling; namely (1) The one sacrifice of Christ compare...
ΤΟΙ͂Σ ΔΕΣΜΊΟΙΣ AD Vulg. and many Fathers. This seems to have first changed by oversight into τοῖς δεσμοῖς, to which μου (אEKL) was perhaps added as an explanatory gloss. ἙΑΥΤΟΎΣ אA. ἑαυτοῖς DEKL, ἐν...
_THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH -- HEBREWS 10:32-39:_ You can easily remain faithful when you remember how God blessed you through former trials and troubles. Christians are many times exposed to all ki...
ΔΈΣΜΙΟΣ (G1198) пленник, ΣΥΝΕΠΑΘΉΣΑΤΕ _aor. act. ind. от_ ΣΥΜΠΑΘΈΩ (G4834) страдать вместе, страдать с кем-л. ΑΡΠΑΓΉ (G724) хищение, грабеж. Это слово означает, что их собственность была либо конфис...
FOR YE HAD COMPASSION OF ME, &C.— This verse alone, it appears to me, leaves no room to doubt that St. Paul was the author of this epistle. We may observe, that the apostle having mentioned two things...
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THE PATH OF TRIBULATION (Hebrews 10:32-34) God has not promised His people a smooth path through this world; instead, He has ordained that "we must through much tribulation’’ enter His kingdom (Acts...
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. YE HAD COMPASSION OF ME IN MY...
7 So Christ "offers Himself flawless to God", not at the cross, but on coming into the world, as the Israelite presented his sacrifice at the door of the tabernacle (Heb_9:14; Lev_1:1-5). 11 The great...
RV 'had compassion on them that were in bonds.' This is the better attested reading, though the other has good support. IN YOURSELVES] It is possible to render, 'Knowing that ye have your own selves f...
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FOR YE HAD COMPASSION OF ME IN MY BONDS. — Rather (according to the true reading of the Greek), _for ye had sympathy with them that were in bonds_ (comp. Hebrews 13:3, “Remember them that are in bonds...
CHAPTER IX. AN ADVANCE IN THE EXHORTATION. "Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holy place by the blood of Jesus, by the way which He dedicated for us, a new and living way, throug...
Dreadful result of falling from faith....
BEWARE OF BACKSLIDING Hebrews 10:26 The willful sin here referred to does not consist in isolated acts, but in a determined course of action, persisted in until the very desire for a better life wan...
The writer now deals with the subject of the better worship. In this connection he again quotes from the prophecy of Jeremiah in order to emphasize the prediction of the new covenant concerning the fo...
BELIEVING TO THE SAVING OF THE SOUL Just as he did in chapter 6, the writer turned to encourage the Hebrew brethren. He wanted them to remember the days of persecution they previously endured. This wa...
(32) But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions; (33) Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflic...
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...
34._And took joyfully, _(194) _etc. _There is no doubt but as they were men who had feelings, the loss of their goods caused them grief; but yet their sorrow was such as did not prevent the joy of whi...
In Chapter 10 this principle is applied to the sacrifice. Its repetition proved that sin was there. That the sacrifice of Christ was only offered once, was the demonstration of its eternal efficacy. H...
FOR YE HAD COMPASSION OF ME IN MY BONDS,.... When he was bound at Jerusalem, by the chief captain Lysias, with two chains, Acts 21:33 or when he was in bonds elsewhere; which they did by sympathizing...
᾿Αναμιμνήσκεσθε δὲ τὰς πρότερον ἡμέρας, ἐν αἷς φωτισθέντες, πολλὴν ἄθλησιν ὑπεμείνατε παθημάτων, τοῦτο μὲν, ὀνειδισμοῖς τε καὶ θλίψεσι θεατριζόμενοι, τοῦτο δὲ, κοινωνοὶ τῶν οὕτως ἀναστρεφομένων γενηθέ...
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Ver. 34. _For ye had compassion...
HEB. 10:33-34. PARTLY, WHILST YE WERE MADE A GAZINGSTOCK BOTH BY REPROACHES AND AFFLICTIONS; AND PARTLY, WHILST YE BECAME COMPANIONS OF THEM THAT WERE SO USED. FOR YE HAD COMPASSION OF ME IN MY BONDS,...
_But_ As if he had said, I trust you will be preserved from so terrible a ruin; and in order that you may, I exhort you to _call to remembrance the former days_ To look back upon past events, which, i...
YE HAVE; for yourselves, in heaven. SUBSTANCE; possession....
FOR YE HAD COMPASSION OF ME IN MY BONDS, AND TOOK JOYFULLY THE SPOILING OF YOUR GOODS, KNOWING IN YOURSELVES THAT YE HAVE IN HEAVEN A BETTER AND AN ENDURING SUBSTANCE. Here is another excellent point...
A motive of Christian patience:...
The attentive reader cannot but notice the thoroughness with which this subject is treated in these Chapter s. It is a matter of profound importance, basic as regards any true knowledge of God, and as...
32-39 Many and various afflictions united against the early Christians, and they had a great conflict. The Christian spirit is not a selfish spirit; it puts us upon pitying others, visiting them, hel...
FOR YE HAD COMPASSION OF ME IN MY BONDS; for ye sympathized in my bonds, &c., is a proof of both kinds of their sufferings forementioned. As to their suffering with others, he instanceth in himself, a...
Hebrews 10:34 for G2532 G1063 me G4834 (G5656) my G3450 chains G1199 and G2532 joyfully G3326...
A CALL TO HIS READERS SO AS TO ENSURE THAT THEY WILL NOT SO FAIL (HEBREWS 10:32). He now reminds them of what they had suffered for Christ's sake in the past, and the compassion that they had revealed...
‘For you both had compassion on those who were in bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your possessions, knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and an abiding one.' Indeed they h...
Hebrews 10:32-39. The argument now takes a turn, AS in chap. Hebrews 6:9. The writer hopes better things. He bids them to remember again and again their earlier struggles and their hope of a blessed r...
Hebrews 10:19-39. For nearly four Chapter s the argument has remained unbroken by those exhortations which abound in the earlier parts of the Epistle. From chapter Hebrews 7:1 to Hebrews 10:18 the rea...
Hebrews 10:34. FOR YE HAD COMPASSION UPON THOSE WHO WERE IN BONDS, AND YE ALSO TOOK JOYFULLY THE SPOILING (the plundering) OF YOUR GOODS, KNOWING THAT YE HAVE YOURSELVES or for yourselves the alternat...
YE HAD COMPASSION ON (συνεπαθησατε). First aorist active indicative of συνπαθεω, old verb to have a feeling with, to sympathize with.THEM THAT WERE IN BONDS (τοις δεσμιοις). Associative instrument...
Hebrews 10:26 Warning against Apostasy. I. Note briefly some misconceptions which prevent some readers of Scripture from receiving in a meek and docile spirit solemn admonitions of the Holy Ghost, su...
Hebrews 10:19. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his fl...
Hebrews 10:1. _For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers the...
CONTENTS: Law only a shadow of things to come. Through Christ a way made into the Holiest for all believers. Warning to the Hebrews who were wavering between Jewish sacrifices and Christ's finished wo...
Hebrews 10:1. _The law having a shadow of good things to come._ St. Paul, ere his epistles were engrossed, weighed his words, adjusted his thoughts, collated them with the prophets, and knew the suppo...
YOU SHARED. This shows how strong their faith had been in the past! _MacKnight_ thinks Paul was one of the prisoners they shared with, during his first imprisonment at Rome....
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 10:32 RECALL THE FORMER DAYS. The author reminds readers how they proved their faith through serving Christ despite suffering (see Hebrews 6:9
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 10:32. ILLUMINATED.—Enlightened, by the preaching of the Christian truth. (Compare 2 Corinthians 4:6; 1 Peter 2:9.) At a later period the word φωτισθέντες becam...
EXPOSITION HEBREWS 10:1 CONCLUDING SUMMARY OF THE ARGUMENT WITH RESPECT TO CHRIST'S ETERNAL PRIESTHOOD....
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very substance of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perf...
1 John 3:2; 1 Peter 1:4; 1 Timothy 6:19; 2 Corinthians 5:1; 2 Timot
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds [κ α ι γ α ρ τ ο ι ς δ ε σ μ ι ο ι ς σ υ ν ε π α θ η σ α τ ε]. Entirely wrong, following T. R. toiv desmoiv mou. Rend. "ye had compassion on the prisoners." So...
For ye sympathized with all your suffering brethren, and with me in particular; and received joyfully the loss of your own goods....
The first words of this verse, YE HAD COMPASSION ON ME IN MY BONDS, prove St. Paul to be the author of this epistle; for who else could there be, whose bonds for the gospel were so known, and so famou...