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Hebrews 12:1-3
An Appeal to Heed the Old Testament Examples, Aided by God's Chastisement.
The example of the believers of old and of Christ:
An Appeal to Heed the Old Testament Examples, Aided by God's Chastisement.
The example of the believers of old and of Christ:
HEBREWS 12:1 euvperi,staton {A} The reading euvperi,spaston (“easily distracting”), which occurs in î46 and 1739 (and perhaps lies behind itd, z), is either a palaeographical error or a deliberate mo...
CHAPTER XII. _Having so many incitements to holiness, patience, and_ _perseverance, we should lay aside every hinderance, and run_ _with patience the race that is set before us, taking our_ _bless...
WHEREFORE - In view of what has been said in the previous chapter. SEEING WE ALSO ARE ENCOMPASSED ABOUT WITH SO GREAT A CLOUD OF WITNESSES - The apostle represents those to whom he had referred in the...
CHAPTER 12 _ 1. Looking away unto Jesus (Hebrews 12:1)_ 2. The Contradiction of sinners (Hebrews 12:3) 3. Chastened as sons (Hebrews 12:5) 4. Exhortations ...
HEBREWS 12:1. WITNESSES: _ i.e_. men who bore witness to God by faith. The idea of spectators is not contained in the Greek word. EASILY BESET US: lit. easily entangling, an image from trailing garmen...
Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses enveloping us, let us strip off every weight and let us rid ourselves of the sin which so persistently surrounds us, and let us run with steadfas...
THE RACE AND THE GOAL (Hebrews 12:1-2)...
WHEREFORE. Greek. _toigaroun,_. very emph. word of inference; Occurs only here and 1 Thessalonians 4:8. Resume from Hebrews 10:39. SEEING. &C. = we also having so great. cloud of witnesses surroundin...
An exhortation to patient steadfastness 1. _Wherefore_ The Greek word is a very strong particle of inference not found elsewhere in the N. T. except in 1 Thessalonians 4:8. _seeing we also are compa...
ΤΟΙΓΑΡΟΥ͂Ν. A very strong particle of inference not found elsewhere in the N. T. except in 1 Thessalonians 4:8. ΚΑῚ ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ Κ.Τ.Λ. “Let us also, seeing we are compassed with so great a cloud of witnes...
AN EXHORTATION TO PATIENT STEADFASTNESS...
CH. 12. An exhortation to faithful endurance (1–3) and a reminder that our earthly sufferings are due to the fatherly chastisement of God (4–13). The need of earnest watchfulness (14–17). Magnificent...
_RUN THE CHRISTIAN RACE -- HEBREWS 12:1-3:_ This great chapter begins, "wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin whic...
ΤΟΙΓΑΡΟΎΝ (G5105) следовательно, затем, итак. Трехчастная вводная частица, которая вводит подчеркнутый вывод, делая фрагмент Hebrews 12:1-3 кульминацией всего обсуждения лучших обещаний (RWP; Lane),...
DISCOURSE: 2334 CHRIST’S PERSEVERING DILIGENCE Hebrews 12:1. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so e...
WHEREFORE, SEEING— The word _also_ in our translation of this verse should by all means be expunged. The connection is this: _"Seeing,_ therefore, that we Christians are, as it were, surrounded with t...
III. _The perfect and final faith of the Christian dispensation. Hebrews 12:1-29_. A. _Jesus, the Author and Perfector of our faith. Hebrews 12:1-3_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:1-3
THE DEMANDS OF FAITH (Hebrews 12:1) Our present verse is a call to constancy in the Christian profession; it is an exhortation unto steadfastness in the Christian life; it is a pressing appeal for ma...
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that i...
1 This cloud of "witnesses" consists of those just enumerated, who witness to the life of faith. It has no reference to any who are watching the Hebrews. A witness is one who testifies, and it is the...
12:1 witnesses (a-11) Witness, in English, has two senses. 'seeing, so as to bear witness,' and 'giving testimony to.' The last only I apprehend is in the Greek here. sin (b-19) Or 'the sin.' entangle...
WITNESSES] The Gk. word is _martyres_. The word means primarily 'one who bears witness' to something he has seen or experienced. Here the witnesses are those who have borne testimony to the victorious...
THE CONTEST. ENDURANCE, HOLINESS, AND DIVINE COMMUNION PROPOSED TO THE SONS OF GOD Inspired by the example of those victorious heroes of faith who now encompass us, we ought to run our race patiently,...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 12 THE RIGHT WAY TO LIVE 12:1-29 JESUS IS OUR EXAMPLE 12:1-3 V1 Like a great cloud, there are a lot of *witnesses round us. Let us then...
WHEREFORE SEEING WE ALSO ARE COMPASSED ABOUT. — Rather, _Therefore let us also_ — _since we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses_ — _having put away all encumbrance and the sin_... _...
CHAPTER XIV. CONFLICT. "Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with...
0-40 CHAPTER XIII. A CLOUD OF WITNESSES. "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when he was a-dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and worship...
Τοιγαροῦν καὶ ἡμεῖς.… “Wherefore, as we have so great a cloud of witnesses encompassing us, let us likewise lay aside every encumbrance and sin that clings so close and run with endurance the race tha...
PERSISTENTLY PRESS FORWARD Hebrews 12:1 In one of Raphael's pictures the clouds, when looked at minutely, are seen to be composed of little cherub-faces; and those who have already witnessed and suff...
After this rapid survey of the past, the writer makes his great appeal. It is that we "consider Him" who is "the Author and Perfecter of faith." The final appeals of the Epistle fall into four sectio...
REASONS TO ENDURE SUFFERING Since there have been so many men of faith before, the writer asked his readers to follow their example. The men and women of the previous chapter are witnesses of the fait...
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, (1) let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which (a) doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the ra...
Laying aside every weight; [1] i.e. all that may hinder us when we run in the way of virtue.--- To the fight proposed to us. In the Greek it is ore clear: let us run the proposed race. He compares the...
CONTENTS The opening of this Chapter contains an earnest and an affectionate Exhortation to the Church, from the View of the Faithful, which had been given in the preceding Chapter, to be steadfastly...
(1) Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race tha...
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...
_SPIRITUAL ENVIRONMENT_ ‘Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with...
1._Wherefore, seeing we also, etc. _This conclusion is, as it were, an epilogue to the former chapter, by which he shows the end for which he gave a catalogue of the saints who excelled in faith under...
The epistle now enters on the practical exhortations that flow from its doctrinal instruction, with reference to the dangers peculiar to the Hebrew Christians - instruction suited throughout to inspir...
WHEREFORE, SEEING WE ALSO ARE COMPASSED ABOUT,...., As the Israelites were encompassed with the pillar of cloud, or with the clouds of glory in the wilderness, as the Jews say; 1 Corinthians 10:1, to...
Having insisted long on a multitude of instances, to declare and evidence the power and efficacy of faith to carry and safeguard believers through all duties and difficulties that they may be called u...
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset _us_, and let us run with patience the race that...
HEB. 12:1. WHEREFORE, SEEING WE ALSO ARE COMPASSED ABOUT WITH SO GREAT A CLOUD OF WITNESSES, LET US LAY ASIDE EVERY WEIGHT, AND THE SIN WHICH DOTH SO EASILY BESET (US), AND LET US RUN WITH PATIENCE T...
By a bold but rhetorical figure, the apostle, in the beginning of this chapter, represents the patriarchs, judges, kings, prophets, and righteous men, whose faith he had celebrated in the preceding ch...
COMPASSED ABOUT-CLOUD OF WITNESSES; the reference is to the Grecian games, in which the racers were surrounded by a vast multitude of spectators. Here the witnesses are those who have themselves run t...
How rightly now Chapter 12 admonishes the saints of God to act by faith; for where faith is in godly exer\-cise, every honorable and true responsibility will be willingly assumed, with the confidence...
1-11 The persevering obedience of faith in Christ, was the race set before the Hebrews, wherein they must either win the crown of glory, or have everlasting misery for their portion; and it is set be...
OLBGrk; HEBREWS CHAPTER 13 HEBREWS 12:1 An exhortation to patience and constancy enforced by the example of Christ. HEBREWS 12:5 The benefit of God's chastisements. HEBREWS 12:14 Exhortation to peace...
1 Clement Wherefore, having so many great and glorious examples set before us, let us turn again to the practice of that peace which from the beginning was the mark set before us;[85] Clement of Ale...
Hebrews 12:1 Therefore G5105 also G2532 are G2192 (G5723) surrounded G4029 (G5740) G2254 great G5118 cloud...
LET US LOOK TO THOSE WHO HAVE GONE BEFORE, WHO ARE NOW OUR WITNESSES, AND TO JESUS OUR PERFECT COACH, FRONT-RUNNER AND TRAINER (HEBREWS 12:1) ‘Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about wit...
Hebrews 12:1-11. Exhortation with encouragement and reproof, in view of all these witnesses, and of the later example of Jesus, to maintain the conflict, and to remember the love from which all discip...
THEREFORE (τοιγαρουν). Triple compound inferential participle (τοι, γαρ, ουν) like the German _doch denn nun_, a conclusion of emphasis, old particle, in N.T. only here and 1 Thessalonians 4:8. Ther...
THE SIN Omit "the....
Hebrews 12:1 The Visible Church an Encouragement to Faith. I. Certainly it cannot be denied, that if we surrender our hearts to Christ and obey God, we shall be in the number of the few. So it has be...
Hebrews 12:1 The Exemplar of Faith. I. The cloud of witnesses is not the object on which our heart is fixed. They testify of faith, and we cherish their memory with gratitude, and walk with a firmer...
L, 2. _Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race...
After giving a long list of the heroes of faith, the apostle adds: Hebrews 12:1. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and th...
The apostle, having deserted the heroes of the faith, represents them as witnesses of the great race which Christians in all ages have to run. All through the chapter he keeps up the idea of the great...
Hebrews 12:1. Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience th...
May the Spirit of God graciously instruct us while we read this chapter! You know that, in the eleventh chapter, the apostle has pictured the ancient worshipers and their victories. Imagine that you...
Hebrews 12:1. _Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us,_ Or «entangle us.» Hebrews 1...
CONTENTS: The Father's chastening of believers and its purpose. The difference between living under law and under grace. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Esau, Moses, Abel. CONCLUSION: Christians have a race...
Hebrews 12:1. _Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses._ Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course, and...
AS FOR Us. All these examples of faith in chapter 11 are a large crowd of witnesses! LET US RID OURSELVES. The symbolism is from the Games. Runners practiced with weights on their feet. For the race,...
_Compassed about with so great a cloud_ GREAT MEN: The witnesses that God has set before the eyes of men are twofold, the witness of greatness and the witness of goodness, the witness of the hero an...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 12:1 CLOUD OF WITNESSES. The OT heroes of the faith in ch. Hebrews 11:1. “Witnesses” may have a double meaning: (1) These OT heroes witnessed to their
PERSUASION TO STEADFASTNESS _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ It is necessary to the understanding of this chapter that we keep in mind the persecutions and sufferings which were straining the allegia...
EXPOSITION The exhortation, begun at Hebrews 10:19, but interrupted at Hebrews 11:1. I by the chapter on faith, is now taken up again with increased force from the array of examples that have been add...
Shall we turn now to Hebrews, chapter 12. Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses (Hebrews 12:1), What this does not mean is that the Old Testament saints, wh...
1 Corinthians 9:24; 1 John 2:15; 1 John 2:16; 1 Peter 2:1; 1 Peter 4:2
Therefore [τ ο ι γ α ρ ο υ ν]. An emphatic particle, strongly affirming the facts on which the following exhortation is based. We also are compassed [κ α ι η μ ε ι ς]. According to this the sense wou...
AFTERWARD Hebrews 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The harvest should not be gathered before it is ripe, nor should its fruitage be reckoned upon, until the time for its garnering has come. In spiritualitie...
Wherefore, being encompassed with a cloud — A great multitude, tending upward with a holy swiftness. Of witnesses — Of the power of faith. Let us lay aside every weight — As all who run a race take ca...
As if our apostle had said, "Seeing we who are now called forth to suffer, have before us so many instances of the faithful, who like. cloud of witnesses have gone before us, and by the help of their...