11 Now no [ch]chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. Renew Your Spiritual Vitality 12 Therefore strengthen the hands which hang down, and the...
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 11, 12. - If then perfection τελείωσις: cf. οὐδὲν γὰρ ἐτελείωσεν ὁ νόμος) were through the Levitical priesthood for under it (rather, upon it, on the ground of it) the people hath received the Law), what...
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 15-18. - And the Holy Ghost also testifieth to us: for after that he hath said, This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; (then saith he...
Faith and its many outstanding examples (ch. 11) Jesus, the supreme example (12:1-3) Encouragement to Persevere in the Face of Hardship (12:4-13) Exhortation to Holy Living (12:14-17) Crowning Motivation and Warning (12:18-29)
I.THE COMPARISON IMPLIED Ch. 9. helps us here. There the writer speaks of two tabernacles - the first outside the veil, the second within. Into the second the high priest went alone once a year. There, away from the sight of the people, before the ark of the covenant containing the...
suggests, to the general punishment of the whole people’s unbelief, as in ch. 3:8; 4:11; 12:21, and see 1Corinthians 10:6 ff.? I should be disposed to think, to the former: such penalties as are denounced in Deuteronomy 32:35, and indeed attached to very many of the Mosaic ...
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1. - Excepting in the designation of Jehovah as "the Lord God of the Hebrews," this verse is an almost exact repetition of the first verse of ch. 8. Such repetitious are very characteristic of the most ancient writings. Parallel Commentaries ... HebrewThen the LORD...