George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Hebrews 5:8
He that was truly the Son of God, and knew all things, learnt practically, and taught us perfect obedience in suffering and dying a cruel death on the cross. (Witham)
He that was truly the Son of God, and knew all things, learnt practically, and taught us perfect obedience in suffering and dying a cruel death on the cross. (Witham)
Verse Hebrews 5:8. _THOUGH HE WERE A SON_] See the whole of the preceding note....
THOUGH HE WERE A SON - Though the Son of God. Though he sustained this exalted rank, and was conscious of it, yet he was willing to learn experimentally what is meant by obedience in the midst of suff...
CHAPTER 5 _ 1. What the High Priest is and represents (Hebrews 5:1)_ 2. The fulfillment in Christ made High Priest (Hebrews 5:5) 3. The spiritual condition of the Hebrew-Christians (Hebrews 5:11)...
The writer now approaches his main argument, that Christ is our all-sufficient High Priest. But before considering in detail the nature of Christ's priestly ministry, he shows that He possesses in a s...
AT HOME WITH MAN AND GOD (Hebrews 5:1-10)...
Every high priest who is chosen from among men is appointed on men's behalf to deal with the things which concern God. His task is to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins, in that he himself is able to...
A. Omit. SON. Greek. _huios._ App-108. See Hebrews 1:2. OBEDIENCE. See Romans 5:19. BY. from. Greek. _apo._ App-104....
_Though he were a Son_ Rather, " SON though He was," so that it might have been thought that there would be no need for the great sacrifice; no need for His learning obedience from suffering. _yet lea...
ΚΑΊΠΕΡ ὪΝ ΥἹΌΣ. “SON though He was,” so that it might have been thought that there would be no need for the great sacrifice; no need for His learning obedience from suffering. ἜΜΑΘΕΝ … ΤῊΝ ὙΠΑΚΟΉΝ. “_...
(2) A SPECIAL CALL...
CH. 5. TWO QUALIFICATIONS FOR HIGH PRIESTHOOD: (1) CAPACITY FOR SYMPATHY (1–3); (2) A SPECIAL CALL (4–10). SPIRITUAL DULNESS OF THE HEBREWS (11–14)...
_THE QUALIFICATIONS FOR CHRIST'S PRIESTHOOD -- HEBREWS 5:7-9:_ Jesus Christ, while in the flesh subjected Himself to hunger, temptation, bleeding and dying Jesus. God could have saved Jesus from dying...
ΚΑΊΠΕΡ (G2539) с _part._ хотя, ών _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΙΜΊ (G1510) быть. Уступительное _part._ ΥΊΌΣ (G5207) сын, занимающий почетное положение единственного наследника и будущего владельца (_см._ H...
DISCOURSE: 2287 CHRIST BENEFITED BY HIS OWN SUFFERINGS Hebrews 5:7. Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able t...
THOUGH HE WERE A SON,— _Notwithstanding his being a Son, he learned obedience by that severe discipline which he underwent._ The connection of this and the preceding verse seems to stand thus: "Jesus...
C. _Christ's qualifications for the priesthood. Hebrews 5:5-10_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 5:5-10 Hebrews 5:5 So Christ also glorified not Himself to be made a high priest, but He that spake unto Him,
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO AARON. (Hebrews 5:8-10). The first ten verses of Hebrews 5 present to us a subject of such vast and vital importance that we dare not hurry over our exposition of them. They bring...
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; Though He WAS (a positive fact: not a supposition, as were would imply) God's Divine Son (whence, in His agony, He so...
1 The chief priest in Israel was able to sympathize with the human frailties of the people because he himself had the same, and sinned, like the rest. But Christ's sufferings, unspeakably more trying...
5:8 Son, (f-4) Alluding to the citation of Psalms 2 just above....
HUMAN BROTHERHOOD AND DIVINE APPOINTMENT The High Priesthood of Christ. The argument now resolves itself into a discussion of Christ's priesthood in comparison with the Levitical priesthood, which is...
LEARNED HE OBEDIENCE] The phrase does not imply any previous unwillingness to obey; but His obedience grew deeper and deeper, till it reached perfection on the Cross: cp. Luke 2:40; Philippians 2:8....
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 5 RULES FOR THE CHIEF PRIEST 5:1-4 V1 All chief priests are *human. They act as agents between other *humans and God. The chief priest ha...
THOUGH HE WERE A SON. — These words may be connected with what precedes (implying that He was heard for His reverent fear, not because, in the preeminent sense, He was God’s Son); but they are still m...
WHO IN THE DAYS OF HIS FLESH... — It will be observed that, of the two essential conditions mentioned in Hebrews 5:2 and Hebrews 5:4, the latter is first taken up in its application to Christ (Hebrews...
καίπερ ὢν υἱὸς ἔμαθεν ἀφʼ ὧν ἔπαθε τὴν ὑπακοήν [having been heard …] although He was a son He learned obedience from the things He suffered. The result of his being heard was therefore that he suffere...
OUR DIVINELY APPOINTED HIGH PRIEST Hebrews 5:1 Having to act for men, our High Priest must be man, acquainted with human conditions; having to do with God, he must be appointed by God. Is there one...
The writer proceeded with the same argument as he instituted a contrast. The two essential qualifications of a priest are capacity for sympathy, and the vocation of God. These are perfectly fulfilled...
JESUS LEARNED THE COST OF OBEDIENCE While Jesus was in the flesh, He was in a position of humility. He, when in the garden, offered up His prayers to God, who was the only one who could have saved Him...
Though he were a Son, yet (i) learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; (i) He learned in deed what it is to have a Father, whom a man must obey....
(7) Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; (8) Thou...
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,...
_‘IN THE DAYS OF HIS FLESH’_ ‘Who in the days of his flesh … and being made perfect, He became the Author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey Him.’ Hebrews 5:7 The first Adam and the secon...
_LEARNING OBEDIENCE_ ‘Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered.’ Hebrews 5:8 He learnt obedience; it is not said that He learnt to obey, but that he learnt obe...
8._Yet learned he obedience, etc. _The proximate end of Christ’s sufferings was thus to habituate himself to obedience; not that he was driven to this by force, or that he had need of being thus exerc...
The epistle then develops the priesthood of the Lord Jesus, comparing it with that of Aaron; but, as we shall see, with a view to bring out the difference rather than the resemblance between them, alt...
THOUGH HE WERE A SON,.... The Son of God, as the Vulgate Latin version reads; not by creation, nor by adoption, nor by office, but by nature, being the only begotten of the Father, having the same nat...
The things discoursed in the foregoing verse seem to have an inconsistency with the account given us concerning the person of Jesus Christ at the entrance of this epistle. For he is therein declared t...
Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; Ver. 8. _Yet learned he obedience_] He came to know by experience what a hard matter it was thus to obey God. _Schola c...
HEB. 5:8. THOUGH HE WERE A SON, YET LEARNED HE OBEDIENCE BY THE THINGS WHICH HE SUFFERED; Perhaps surprisingly Edwards mentions Hebrews 5:8 while discussing in _Freedom of the Will _ "that it was _i...
_Though he were a son_ And so, one would have supposed, might have been exempted from suffering; this is interposed, lest any should be offended at all these instances of human weakness; _yet learned...
A SON; the divine Son of God. YET LEARNED HE OBEDIENCE; he learned by experience what it is to obey God in the midst of manifold sufferings. Thus he was qualified to succor those who are in like circ...
THOUGH HE WERE A SON, YET LEARNED HE OBEDIENCE BY THE THINGS WHICH HE SUFFERED;...
THE PERFECT SALVATION EARNED BY CHRIST:...
"For every High Priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins." The apostle of course refers to the priesthood of Aa...
1-10 The High Priest must be a man, a partaker of our nature. This shows that man had sinned. For God would not suffer sinful man to come to him alone. But every one is welcome to God, that comes to...
He fulfilled his type in the end; for though he were God the Son incarnate, in a nearer and more excellent relation to the Father than any angel, or any high priest among men his types, being all serv...
Tertullian Of Patience of growing up; and, when grown up, is not eager to be recognised, but is furthermore contumelious to Himself, and is baptized by His own servant; and repels with words alone th...
Hebrews 5:8 though G2539 was G5607 (G5752) Son G5207 learned G3129 (G5627) obedience G5218 by G575 which...
Hebrews 5:7-10. Having shown how Christ has one qualification for the Priesthood, the authority of a Divine appointment, based in part upon His relation to the Father, the writer now reverts to the ot...
Hebrews 5:8. THOUGH HE WERE A SON; more accurately, ‘ THOUGH HE WAS SON ' (there is no conditional thought expressed, but a strong assertion); literally, though being [in His own nature] Son, YET LEAR...
THOUGH HE WAS A SON (καιπερ ων υιος). Concessive participle with καιπερ, regular Greek idiom as in Hebrews 7:5; Hebrews 12:17.YET LEARNED OBEDIENCE (εμαθεν υπακοην). Second aorist active indicativ...
Hebrews 5:1 Christ, as Son of man, called and perfected to be our High Priest. I. The Jewish priesthood suffered from two essential defects, and was thus only a type and shadow of our Lord. (1) In th...
Hebrews 5:7 The Humiliation of the Eternal Son. The chief mystery of our holy faith is the humiliation of the Son of God to temptation and suffering, as described in this passage of Scripture. I. Th...
Hebrews 5:8 Suffering the School of Obedience. I. In His wisdom and power, God has laid even upon sorrow the destiny of fulfilling His purposes of mercy. In the beginning sorrow was the wages of sin,...
Hebrews 5:1. _For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:_ Notice that the high priests were take...
Hebrews 5:1. For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: who can have compassion on the ignorant,...
Hebrews 5:1. _For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins:_ The high priest of old was «taken from...
CONTENTS: Christ, our Great High Priest after the order of Melchisedec. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Aaron, Melchisedec. CONCLUSION: God was pleased to take One from among men, His only begotten Son, who...
Hebrews 5:1. _Every highpriest taken from among men is ordained for men._ He is to officiate in all the hallowed services of the sanctuary, to offer the mincha, or oblations and gifts of thanksgiving,...
BUT EVEN THOUGH. "He was not exempt from suffering, just because he was God's Son. He learned first-hand how difficult it is for men to obey God. He learned this by experience, and he also learned wha...
_With strong crying and tears_ THE EXERCISE OF THE SON OF GOD IN HIS AGONY I. In the first place we shall illustrate the definition of THE SEASON OF THE AGONY OF THY, SON OF GOD in these words: “The...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 5:8 HE LEARNED OBEDIENCE THROUGH WHAT HE SUFFERED. Jesus was always without sin (Hebrews 4:15;...
CHARACTER-FITNESS FOR HIGH-PRIESTLY WORK _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE writer now fixes attention on the high-priesthood, shows what are its characteristic and essential features, and makes co...
EXPOSITION THE PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST. The purpose of the first part of this chapter (Hebrews 5:1) is to corroborate the position arrived at in the conclusion of Hebrews 4:1., viz. that we _have _in Ch...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to Hebrews 5 At the end of chapter 4, the author of Hebrews introduced the idea of Jesus being our great High Priest. "Seeing then that we have a great high priest, tha...
Hebrews 1:5; Hebrews 1:8; Hebrews 10:5; Hebrews 3:6; Isaiah 50:5;...
Though he were a Son [κ α ι π ε ρ ω ν υ ι ο ς]. For were rend. was. His training for the priesthood involved suffering, even though he was a son. Connect with emaqen learned, not with the preceding cl...
Though he were a Son — This is interposed. lest any should be offended at all these instances of human weakness. In the garden, how frequently did he call God his Father! Matthew 26:39, &c. And hence...
Observe here, 1. Christ's eminent dignity; he was. SON, that is, the Son of God, and God himself; THE WORD WAS GOD, John 1:1. And as the word was made flesh, so he was mearer to God than any other per...