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Hebrews 10:33
partly, whilst ye were made a gazing stock both by reproaches and afflictions, and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
partly, whilst ye were made a gazing stock both by reproaches and afflictions, and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Verse 33. _YE WERE MADE A GAZING-STOCK_] Θεατριζομενοι. Ye were exhibited as wild beasts and other shows at the theatres. See the note on 1 Corinthians 4:9, where all this is illustrated. _COMPANION...
PARTLY - That is, your affliction consisted partly in this. The Greek is, “this” - specifying one kind of affliction that they were called to endure. WHILST YE WERE MADE A GAZING-STOCK - Greek θεατριζ...
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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...
PARTLY. Add "indeed". WHILST, &C. = being. MADE. GAZINGSTOCK. Greek. _theatrizomai._ Only here. Compare 1 Corinthians 4:9 and App-133. REPROACHES. Greek. _oneidismos._ See Romans 15:3. AFFLICTIONS....
_ye were made a gazingstock_ Lit. "being set upon a stage" (_theatrizomenoi_). The same metaphor is used in 1 Corinthians 4:9 ("We became a _theatre_," comp. 1 Corinthians 15:32). _companions_ Rather...
ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ ΜῈΝ … ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ ΔΈ. Distributive formula, used adverbially, Winer. ΘΕΑΤΡΊΖΟΜΕΝΟΙ. Lit., “_being set upon a stage_.” The same metaphor is used in 1 Corinthians 4:9 (“We became a _theatre_,” comp. 1...
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ΤΟΎΤΟ ΜΈΝ... ΤΟΎΤΟ ΔΈ отчасти так... и отчасти так. Отчасти подвергнувшись публичному позору из-за упреков и гонений, отчасти разделяя страдания с другими, с кем так обращаются. _асс._ общей ссылки ис...
WHILST YE WERE MADE A GAZING FLOCK— _While ye were openly exposed, as upon a theatre._ St. Paul's expression, 1 Corinthians 4:9 is, _"we are made_ θεατρον, _a spectacle,_ as if we were exposed upon a...
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Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. The persecutions referred to were probably endured b...
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COMPANIONS] i.e, voluntary partners and sympathisers with those who suffered: cp. Hebrews 6:10....
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WHILST YE WERE MADE A GAZINGSTOCK. — Literally, _being exposed in the theatre_ (see the Notes on Acts 19:29; 1 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Corinthians 15:32). Here also it is probable that the word has only a...
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Dreadful result of falling from faith....
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Partly, whilst ye were made a (p) gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became (q) companions of them that were so used. (p) You were brought forth to be shamed. (q)...
(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...
33._Partly, whilst ye were made, etc. _We see who they were whom he addresses, even those whose faith had been proved by no common trials, and yet he refrains not from exhorting them to greater things...
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...
PARTLY WHILST YE WERE MADE A GAZING STOCK,.... Brought upon the stage or theatre, and made a spectacle to the world, angels, and men, 1 Corinthians 4:9 BOTH BY REPROACHES AND AFFLICTIONS; suffering b...
᾿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...
Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used. Ver. 33. _Made a gazing-stock_] Gr. θεατριζομενοι, set...
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...
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...
OLBGrk; PARTLY, WHILST YE WERE MADE A GAZINGSTOCK BOTH BY REPROACHES AND AFFLICTIONS; their sufferings personal in this famous instance, yeatrizomenoi. They were so publicly exposed as on a stage or t...
The Teaching of the Apostles For there were some of them against whom death by the sword was ordered; and there were some of them from whom they took away whatsoever they possessed, and let them go....
Hebrews 10:33 partly G5124 G3303 spectacle G2301 (G5746) both G5037 reproaches G3680 and G2532 tribulations G2347
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...
‘But call to mind the former days, in which, after you were enlightened, you endured a great conflict of sufferings, partly, being continually made a gazingstock, both by reproaches and afflictions; a...
Hebrews 10:33. PARTLY IN THAT YE BECAME A SPECTACLE OF SHAME ‘a theatrical spectacle' a term taken from those who were exposed in the theatre to shameful punishment (1 Corinthians 4:11) IN THE SCORNFU...
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...
PARTLY (τουτο μεν)AND PARTLY (τουτο δε). Accusative of general reference (τουτο) with μεν and δε for contrast.BEING MADE A GAZING-STOCK (θεατριζομενο). Late verb to bring upon the stage, to hol...
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 WERE AT TIMES. "Sometimes it was you who were publicly insulted, and other times it was your friends. You felt so strongly about it that you were ready to be a martyr with them!...
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 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Thessalonians 2:14; 2 Corinthians 12:10; 2 Timothy 1:16;...
Whilst ye were made a gazing - stock [θ ε α τ ρ ι ζ ο μ ε ν ο ι]. N. T. o. o LXX, o Class. Lit. exhibited in the theater. Comp. 1 Corinthians 4:9. Whilst ye became companions [κ ο ι ν ω ν ο ι γ ε ν η...
Here our apostle particularly mentions the sufferings which the primitive saints underwent for the sake of Christianity, and reduces them to three heads, shame, pain, loss: They suffered in their name...