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Hebrews 13:2
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Verse Hebrews 13:2. _TO ENTERTAIN STRANGERS_] In those early times, when there were scarcely any public inns or houses of entertainment, it was an office of charity and mercy to receive, lodge, and en...
BE NOT FORGETFUL TO ENTERTAIN STRANGERS - On the duty of hospitality, see a full explanation in the notes on Romans 12:13. FOR THEREBY SOME HAVE ENTERTAINED ANGELS UNAWARES - Without knowing that they...
CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The practical walk (Hebrews 13:1)_ 2. The call to separation (Hebrews 13:7) 3. Conclusions (Hebrews 13:17)...
Emphasis is first laid on the duty of brotherly love_ i.e._ kindness towards fellow-Christians which was all-important in a struggling community like the early Church. Three aspects of this duty are p...
THE MARKS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Hebrews 13:1-6)...
Let brotherly love be always with you. Do not forget the duty of hospitality for, in remembering this duty, there are some who have entertained angels without knowing that they were doing so. Rememb...
BE NOT FORGETFUL. Forget not. BE... FORGETFUL. Greek. _epilanthanomai._ See Hebrews 6:10. TO ENTERTAIN, &C. = hospitality. Greek. _philoxenia._ Only here and Romans 12:13. THEREBY. by (Greek. _dia_....
_to entertain strangers_ The hospitality of Christians (what Julian calls ἡ περὶ ξένους φιλανθρωπία) was naturally exercised chiefly towards the brethren. The absence of places of public entertainment...
CH. 13. Concluding Exhortations to Love (1); Hospitality (2); Kindness to Prisoners and the Suffering (3); Purity of Life (4); Contentment (5); Trustfulness (6); Submission to Pastoral Authority (7, 8...
CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS TO LOVE (1); HOSPITALITY (2); KINDNESS TO PRISONERS AND THE SUFFERING (3); PURITY OF LIFE (4); CONTENTMENT (5); TRUSTFULNESS (6); SUBMISSION TO PASTORAL AUTHORITY (7, 8); STEAD...
ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΊΑΣ. The hospitality of Christians (what Julian calls ἡ περὶ ξένους φιλανθρωπία) was naturally exercised chiefly towards the brethren. The absence of places of public entertainment except in th...
_REMEMBER THESE THINGS -- HEBREWS 13:1-6:_ It is wonderful that brotherly love existed among these brethren. The writer admonished them to allow this love to continue. In a very forceful statement Pet...
ΦΙΛΟΞΕΝΊΑ (G5381) страннолюбив, гостеприимство. Так как гостиниц было очень мало, прием и проявление гостеприимства по отношению к странникам были важной частью жизни иудеев (JPFC, 2:762; RAC, 8:1061-...
BE NOT FORGETFUL, &C.— The apostle seems to refer to the reception given to angels by Abraham and Lot. See Genesis 18:19 :...
IV. _Final exhortation regarding duties pertaining to the Truth. Hebrews 13:1-25_. A. _Social duties. Hebrews 13:1-7_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 13:1-7...
BROTHERLY LOVE (Hebrews 13:1-3) Brotherly love is that spiritual benevolence and affectionate solicitude which Christians have one toward another, desiring and seeking their highest interests. The va...
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Two manifestations of "brotherly love" - hospitality and care for those in bonds. BE NOT FORGETFUL. They...
22 There is a studied contrast here between the scene presented to the physical eye at Mount Sinai and the prospect of faith in connection with the new covenant. Mount Sinai itself is suggestive of an...
DUTIES OF SOCIAL LIFE, viz. brotherly love, hospitality, and sympathy with those who suffer for Christ's sake....
ADVICE, MEMORIES, PRAYERS, GREETINGS The Epistle concludes with various exhortations in regard to the social life (Hebrews 13:1), private life (Hebrews 13:4), the religious life (Hebrews 13:7), in whi...
STRANGERS] Christian brethren from other places are meant: cp. Hebrews 6:10. ANGELS UNAWARES] cp. Genesis 18:19; Judges 6:11; Judges 13:2.
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 13 THE WAY OF LOVE AND DOING WHAT GOD WANTS 13:1-25 CHRISTIAN LOVE 13:1-6 V1 Go on loving each other as brothers. V2 Do not forget to re...
TO ENTERTAIN STRANGERS. — Hospitality to Christian brethren at a distance from their homes is especially intended (1 Peter 4:9): this was one manifestation of the “love of the brethren” (Hebrews 13:1)...
CHAPTER XVI. SUNDRY EXHORTATIONS. Hebrews 13:1 Let love of the brethren continue. Forget not to shew love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that are in...
Exhortations to social manifestations of their Christianity. Ἡ φιλαδελφία μενέτω. “Let love of the brethren continue”; it existed (Hebrews 6:10) and so, as Chrys. says, he does not write Γίνεσθε φιλάδ...
SANCTIFY DAILY LIFE Hebrews 13:1 We may not like _all_ the brethren, but there is something in each of them that Christ loves. Let us try to discover it, or love them for His sake. We can love peopl...
The last chapter contains a series of general exhortations. It is evident that the letter was sent to those whose faith was being challenged and weakened, and whose love, therefore, was cooling. These...
THE CHRISTIAN'S DAILY DUTIES The author exhorted the Hebrew brethren to continue loving one another as members of the Christian family. He seems to assume that they are aware of the instruction of the...
_And hospitality do not forget,...some being not aware [1] of it, have entertained Angels. They imagined they received men, when they were Angels. The Latin interpreter followed exactly the Greek, tho...
(1) Let brotherly love continue. (2) Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. (3) Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which...
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...
2._Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, etc. _This office of humanity has also nearly ceased to be properly observed among men; for the ancient hospitality, celebrated in histories, is unknown to...
In this next Chapter there is more than one truth important to notice. The exhortations are as simple as they are weighty, and require but few remarks. They rest in the sphere in which the whole of th...
BE NOT FORGETFUL TO ENTERTAIN STRANGERS,.... By whom are meant, not unconverted men, who are strangers to God and Christ, and the covenants of promise; nor saints, who are as pilgrims and strangers in...
Τῆς φιλοξενίας μὴ ἐπιλανθάνεσθε· διὰ ταύτης γὰρ ἔλαθόν τινες ξενίσαντες ἀγγέλους. Φιλοξενίας. Syr., רְחֶמְתָא דַּאכְסְנָיֵא, “the compassionate love of strangers.” “Hospitalitatis,” “hospitality.” We...
Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Ver. 2. _Have entertained angels_] As Abraham and Lot, who pursued hospitality, as the apostle speaketh, Ro...
Heb. 13:2-8. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; (and) them which suffer adversity, as bei...
In this concluding chapter we find fresh instances of that divine wisdom wherewith the apostle was influenced in writing this epistle; improving still more the doctrines he had advanced to practical p...
ENTERTAINED ANGELS; GENESIS 18:2-19; Genesis 19:1-3....
The first six verses of this chapter have a striking moral relationship to what has gone before. We have seen that though God's dispensational ways have undergone a mighty change in the advent of His...
1-6 The design of Christ in giving himself for us, is, that he may purchase to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works; and true religion is the strongest bond of friendship. Here are earnes...
OLBGrk; The next duty suitable to Christ's kingdom, is hospitality to Christian strangers. BE NOT FORGETFUL TO ENTERTAIN STRANGERS; be neither ignorant nor unmindful: by which charge they are bound st...
Tertullian On Prayer , "a brother? you have seen your Lord; "[172]...
Hebrews 13:2 Do G1950 not G3361 forget G1950 (G5737) strangers G5381 for G1063 so G1223 G5026 some...
‘Do not forget to show loving hospitality to strangers, for as a result of that some have entertained angels unawares.' The first exhortation reveals that Christians should be always receptive of oth...
Hebrews 13:2. Nor was this love confined to the family. The God they worshipped loves strangers (Deuteronomy 10:18-19). In His gracious philanthropy (Titus 3:4) He had welcomed _them_ when strangers;...
AS BOUND WITH THEM (ως συνδεδεμενο). Perfect passive participle of συνδεω, old verb, here only in N.T. For sympathy with prisoners see Hebrews 10:34.AS BEING YOURSELVES ALSO IN THE BODY (ως κα αυτ...
Hebrews 13:1 I. Having warned the Hebrews against the dangers of selfishness, fleshly lusts, and covetousness, the Apostle proceeds to warn them against the dangers threatening their faith and loyalty...
Hebrews 13:1. _Let brotherly love continue._ It is supposed to be there already; let it continue, not only love of a common kind, such as we are to have to all men, but that special «brotherly love»...
This is a practical chapter at the close of this most instructive Epistle. Hebrews 13:1. _Let brotherly love continue._ The word «continue» implies that the «brotherly love» exists, there are many t...
CONTENTS: Exhortations to the Christian. Separation and worship. Apostolic benediction. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Timothy. CONCLUSION: Our Lord Jesus purchased us with His blood that He might set us a...
Hebrews 13:1. _Let brotherly love continue._ The love as when you first believed, and when many of you sold your possessions to raise a fund for the widows, who were cut off from the alms of the synag...
TO WELCOME STRANGERS. Persecution often made Christians homeless. It was important to be able to depend upon your fellow Christians! See note on 1 Timothy 3:2. AND WELCOMED ANGELS. See Genesis 18:1; M...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 13:1 Concluding Encouragements and Remarks. The author concludes with some specific points of application for the community (vv. Hebrews 13:1), w
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 13:2 HOSPITALITY. Hosting and caring for visitors (Romans 12:13; 1
VIRTUES AND GRACES BEFITTING THE CHRISTIAN PROFESSION _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 13:1. BROTHERLY LOVE.—φιλαδελφία, the mutual love of Christians as such. Hebrews 13:2. ANGELS UNAWARES.—...
CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS EXPOSITION As in St. Paul's Epistles, practical directions as to conduct conclude the treatise, such as the readers may be supposed to have especially needed. They are urged t...
Chapter 13, closing out the book. Let brotherly love continue. Don't forget to entertain strangers: for some have entertained angels without knowing it (Hebrews 13:1-2). Interesting. I believe it. I...
1 Kings 17:10; 1 Peter 4:9; 1 Timothy 3:2; 1 Timothy 5:10; 2 Kings 4:8
Some — Abraham and Lot. Have entertained angels unawares — So may an unknown guest, even now, be of more worth than he appears, and may have angels attending him, though unseen. Genesis 18:2; Genesis...
The second duty here exhorted to is hospitality, especially towards strangers, which consisted in receiving them into their houses, and furnishing them with all needful accommodations. In those easter...