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Hebrews 10:38
Now the just shall live by faith; but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him.
Now the just shall live by faith; but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him.
HEBREWS 10:38 di,kaio,j mou evk pi,stewj {B} Influenced by the citation of the same Old Testament quotation in Romans 1:17 and...
Verse 38. _NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH_] Ὁ δε δικαιος εκ πιστεως ζησεται· _But the just by faith_, i.e. he who is justified by faith, _shall live_-shall be preserved when this overflowing scour...
NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH - This is a part of the quotation from Habakkuk Habakkuk 2:3, which was probably commenced in the previous verse; see the passage fully explained in the notes on Roman...
CHAPTER 10 _ 1. The all-sufficiency of the one offering (Hebrews 10:1)_ 2. Exhortations (Hebrews 10:19) 3. Warning (Hebrews 10:26) 4. Encouragements ...
With the past in mind they are to maintain their former constancy, knowing that it will not be in vain. Their great need, as the whole epistle is meant to teach them, is the power of endurance, enabli...
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...
THE ONLY TRUE SACRIFICE (Hebrews 10:1-10)...
JUST. Greek. _dikaios._ App-191. The third time of quoting Habakkuk 2:4. See Romans 1:17. IF. Greek. _ean._ App-118. DRAWBACK. Greek. _hupostello._ See Galatians 1:2;...
_Now the just shall live by faith_ The true reading here (though not in the Hebrew) perhaps is, "But _my_righteous one shall live by faith" (as in א, A, K), and this is all the more probable because t...
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...
WORDS OF APPEAL AND ENCOURAGEMENT...
ΜΟΥ. This is found in most MSS. of the LXX., and especially in the Alexandrine which the writer seems to have used. See the note. 38. Ὁ ΔῈ ΔΊΚΑΙΌΣ ΜΟΥ Κ.Τ.Λ. The true reading here (though not in the H...
_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...
ΖΉΣΕΤΑΙ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) жить, ΥΠΟΣΤΕΊ ΛΗΤΑΙ _aor. conj. med. от_ ΝΠΟΣΤΈΛΛΩ (G5288) удаляться, отходить, колебаться. _Conj._ с ΈΆΝ (G1437) в _conj._ 3 типа, где условие считается возмо...
DISCOURSE: 2316 THE TRUE MEANS OF PERSEVERING TO THE END Hebrews 10:38. _Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who...
NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH:— Dr. Sykes is of opinion, that this sentence would stand better connected with the preceding words, if a full stop were not put after the word _tarry,_ but the whole...
_Exhortation based on the priesthood of Christ. Hebrews 10:19-39_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 10:19-39 Hebrews 10:19 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the Holy Place by the bl
THE SAVING OF THE SOUL (Hebrews 10:35-39) As there is so much ground covered by the verses which are now to be before us, we shall dispense with our usual introductory paragraphs. In lieu of them, we...
Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. JUST. 'Aleph (') A, Vulgate, read 'MY just man.' God is the speaker-`He who is just in my sight.'...
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...
10:38 just (d-3) Or possibly this may read 'my just [man].' i.e. God's just one, the one he owns as such. There is good authority for it. The sense runs well and is the same. he (e-10) Or 'any one.'...
SACRIFICE COMPLETE IN THE FULFILMENT OF GOD'S WILL. THE OPEN WAY TO GOD Recapitulation and close of the argument. The sacrifices of the Law were ineffective to cleanse the conscience, as shown by thei...
THE JUST] RV 'my righteous one.' The Speaker is God....
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 10 A NEW *SACRIFICE AND WAY TO LIFE 10:1-39 THE LAW WAS A SHADOW OF THINGS TO COME 10:1-4 V1 The law of Moses provides only a poor copy...
NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH. — The Greek text of this clause is not perfectly certain, but it is probable that the word “my” should be added, so that the translation of the verse will be as follo...
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...
(12) Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. (12) He commends the excellency of a sure faith by the effect, because it is the only way to...
But my [8] just man, he that liveth according to the doctrine I have taught, liveth by faith, which is the groundwork and foundation of a good life. --- But if he withdraw himself, and fall from this...
(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...
_FAITHFUL CONTINUANCE_ ‘The just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him. But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to...
38._Now the just, etc. _He means that patience is born of faith; and this is true, for we shall never be able to carry on our contests unless we are sustained by faith, even as, on the other hand, Joh...
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...
NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH,.... The "just" man is one not in appearance only, but in reality; not by his obedience to the law, but by the obedience of Christ; and he is evidently so by the Spiri...
῎Ετι γὰρ μικρόν ὅσον, ὁ ἐρχόμενος ἥξει, καὶ οὐ χρονιεῖ. ῾Ο δὲ δίκαιος ἐκ πίστεως ζήσεται· καὶ ἐὰν ὑποστείληται, οὐκ εὐδοκεῖ ἡ ψυχή μου ἐν αὐτῷ. ᾿Ημεῖς δὲ οὐκ ἐσμὲν ὑποστολῆς εἰς ἀπώλειαν, ἀλλὰ πίστεως...
Now the just shall live by faith: but if _any man_ draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Ver. 38. _Now the just shall live by faith_] In the want of feeling; he shall rest upon God in the...
HEB. 10:38-39. NOW THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH: BUT IF (ANY MAN) DRAW BACK, MY SOUL SHALL HAVE NO PLEASURE IN HIM. BUT WE ARE NOT OF THEM WHO DRAW BACK UNTO PERDITION; BUT OF THEM THAT BELIEVE TO TH...
_Now_ That is, in the mean time, as it is there added; _the just_, δικαιος, _the righteous_ He that is pardoned and renewed, or justified and regenerated, and who therefore is humble, meek, sincere, r...
THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH-NO PLEASURE IN HIM; quoted for substance from the Greek version of Habakkuk 2:4. DRAW BACK; give up confidence in Christ, deny him, and renounce his cause to escape suffe...
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...
OLBHeb;OLBGrk; These are, as the former, the words of the Prophet Habakkuk, HABAKKUK 2:4, enforcing the former duty pressed from the gain of perseverance, and the loss by withdrawing, when Christ shal...
Tertullian On Exhortation to Chastity But where three are, a church is, albeit they be laics. For each individual lives by his own faith,[38]...
Hebrews 10:38 Now G1161 just G1342 live G2198 (G5695) by G1537 faith G4102 But G2532 if G1437 back...
‘But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrink back, my soul has no pleasure in him.' Again taken almost exactly from Habakkuk 2:4 LXX (although ‘of me' (mou) is moved in order to stress t...
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...
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 10:38. BUT (or now) MY RIGHTEOUS ONE (he who belongs to God's people) BY FAITH SHALL LIVE. As it is by faith he first gets life (as is told us in Romans 1:16-17, and Galatians 3:11), so it is...
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...
IF HE SHRINK BACK (εαν υποστειλητα). Condition of third class with εαν and the first aorist middle subjunctive of υποστελλω, old verb to draw oneself under or back, to withdraw, as already in Acts 2...
Hebrews 10:38 Transgressions and Infirmities. Warnings such as these would not be contained in Scripture were there no danger of our drawing back, and thereby losing that life in God's presence which...
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...
WILL BELIEVE AND LIVE. See note on Matthew 24:21. No Christian Jews died in the siege of Jerusalem, because they believed and escaped before the Roman armies surrounded the city!...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 10:37 The quotation from Habakkuk 2:3 encourages perseverance. ⇐
_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 2:19; 1 Thessalonians 2:15; 2 Peter 2:19; Ezekiel 18:24;...
Now the just shall live by faith [ο δ ε δ ι κ α ι ο ς (μ ο υ] ejk pistewv zhsetai). Cited by Paul, Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11; Galatians 3:22; Galatians
Now the just — The justified person. Shall live — In God's favour, a spiritual and holy life. By faith — As long as he retains that gift of God. But if he draw back — If he make shipwreck of his faith...
These words, THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH, are taken out of the prophet Habakuk, and are three times made use of by St. Paul, in his epistles, Romans 1:17; Galatians 3:11, and in this place. By the ju...