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Hebrews 13:22
And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation; for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation; for I have written a letter unto you in few words.
Verse 22. _SUFFER THE WORD OF EXHORTATION_] Bear the word or doctrine of this exhortation. This seems to be an epithet of this whole epistle: and as the apostle had in it shown the insufficiency of t...
SUFFER THE WORD OF EXHORTATION - Referring to the arguments and counsels in this whole Epistle, which is in fact a practical exhortation to perseverance in adhering to the Christian religion amidst al...
CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The practical walk (Hebrews 13:1)_ 2. The call to separation (Hebrews 13:7) 3. Conclusions (Hebrews 13:17)...
A postscript. The readers are asked to give patient attention to the foregoing epistle, which is described as a word of exhortation,-' thus clearly indicating its practical aim. Their patience is all...
THE MARKS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Hebrews 13:1-6)...
May the God of peace, who brought up from among the dead the great shepherd of the sheep with the blood of the eternal covenant, it is our Lord Jesus I mean, equip you with every good thing that you m...
SUFFER. Greek. _anechomai._ See Luke 9:41. EXHORTATION. See Hebrews 12:5. HAVE WRITTEN. LETTER. wrote. IN. Greek. _dia_. App-104.Hebrews 13:1....
_suffer the word of exhortation_ "Bear with the word of my exhortation." Comp. Acts 13:15. This is a courteous apology for the tone of severity and authority which he has assumed. _for_ "for indeed,...
ἈΝΈΧΕΣΘΕ. “_Bear with the word of my exhortation_.” Comp. Acts 13:15. This is a courteous apology for the tone of severity and authority which he has assumed. ΚΑῚ ΓΆΡ. “_For indeed_,” as in Hebrews 1...
CONCLUDING NOTICES AND BENEDICTIONS...
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...
_RESPOND TO THE EXHORTATIONS -- HEBREWS 13:18-25:_ The writer asked and exhorted the brethren to pray for him that he could have a good conscience. (Hebrews 13:18) A good conscience is a conscience en...
SUFFER THE WORD OF EXHORTATION— _Take in good part the exhortation I here send, which is but a brief one._ The apostle seems to have concluded his epistle in the preceding verse, and to add these word...
F. _Exhortation, Hebrews 13:22_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 13:22 Hebrews 13:22 But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation: for I have written unto you in few words. Paraphr
DIVINE EXHORTATIONS (Hebrews 13:22) Before taking up our present verse let us offer some further remarks upon the last portions of 5:21, which, through lack of space, we had to omit from the precedin...
And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words. SUFFER THE WORD. The Hebrews not being the section assigned to Paul (but the Gentile...
13 This is the climax of the epistle. The choice is between faith and apostasy. The reference is to the ritual of the golden calf (Ex.33). It would have been apostasy to go outside the camp had there...
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...
WORD OF EXHORTATION] the whole Epistle. The apologetic tone indicates some doubt as to the manner of its reception (cp. Hebrews 13:18), and also a consciousness that the subject has been treated more...
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...
AND I BESEECH YOU. — Rather, _Bui I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation; for indeed it is in few words that I have written unto you._ How fitly the whole Epistle may be spoken of a...
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...
The writer adds, in closing, a request that the Hebrews would take in good part his “word of exhortation” a request which implies that they were in an irritable state of mind, if not against the write...
PRAISE, PRAYER, AND PEACE Hebrews 13:14 Notice that though the ancient sacrifices have been abolished, there is one which can never grow old-the _sacrifice of praise_. This incense must ever ascend...
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...
PERSONAL MATTERS AND CONCLUDING COMMENTS The writer asked the brethren to pray in his behalf, as well as in behalf of the apostles and other proclaimers of the gospel. He preached the one true gospel,...
_Bear with the word of consolation, with what I have written to exhort and comfort you in a very few words, considering the importance of the subject, and the sublime mysteries. (Witham)_...
(22) And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words. (23) Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shor...
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...
22._And I beseech you, etc. _Some understand this as though he was soliciting them to hear him; but I take another view; for he mentions, as I think, that he had written in a _few words, _or briefly,...
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...
AND I BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN,.... The apostle closes his epistle to the Hebrews in a very tender and affectionate manner, calling them "brethren", as he often does; and speaking to them, not in an auth...
Of the close of the epistle, which now only remains, there are three parts: 1. The apostle's request of the prayers of the Hebrews for himself, Hebrews 13:18-19; 2. His solemn benedictive prayer f...
And I beseech you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation: for I have written a letter unto you in few words. Ver. 22. _Suffer the word_] Sharp though it be, and to the flesh tiresome, yet suffer i...
HEB. 13:22-25. AND I BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN, SUFFER THE WORD OF EXHORTATION: FOR I HAVE WRITTEN A LETTER UNTO YOU IN FEW WORDS. KNOW YE THAT (OUR) BROTHER TIMOTHY IS SET AT LIBERTY; WITH WHOM, IF HE CO...
_I beseech you, brethren_ He subjoins this tender address to his epistle to caution them against losing, through negligence or prejudice, the benefit they might otherwise derive from it; _suffer the w...
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...
22-25 So bad are men, and even believers, through the remainders of their corruption, that when the most important, comfortable doctrine is delivered to them for their own good, and that with the mos...
The apostle now drawing to a close, desires them candidly to accept his Epistle; that, considering their relation to him as Christians and Hebrews, he doth affectionately entreat them, that they would...
Hebrews 13:22 And G1161 appeal G3870 (G5719) you G5209 brethren G80 bear G430 (G5737) word G3056 exhortation...
LAST THOUGHTS (HEBREWS 13:22). ‘But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words. In these last thoughts he asks his readers, his ‘brothers and si...
FINAL EXHORTATION AND A PRAYER FOR HIS READERS (HEBREWS 13:17). So having finally made the great divide between Jerusalem and all that it had come to stand for, and Christianity with its whole concern...
Hebrews 13:22. NOW I EXHORT YOU, BRETHREN, BEAR WITH (in the sense of giving a patient, willing audience to; see Acts 18:14; 2 Corinthians 11:4) THE WORD OF EXHORTATION. The language is partly apologe...
BEAR WITH (ανεχεσθε). Present middle imperative (some MSS. have ανεχεσθα, infinitive) of ανεχω with the ablative, "hold yourselves back from" as in Colossians 3:13.THE WORD OF EXHORTATION (του λο...
Hebrews 13:17 I. The Author of peace. From all eternity God purposed in Himself the counsel of peace; and when, by reason of sin, discord and misery came into the world, the Lord always comforted His...
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»...
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 LISTEN PATIENTLY. "I am afraid you may be prejudiced against me, and I want you to listen patiently to the brief letter I have written to you on such important issues....
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
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 13:20. GOD OF PEACE.— Romans 15:33; Romans 16:20; Philippians 4:9;...
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 Peter 5:12; 2 Corinthians 10:1; 2 Corinthians 5:20; 2 Corinthians 6:1;...
Suffer the word of exhortation [α ν ε χ ε σ θ ε τ ο υ λ ο γ ο υ τ η ς π α ρ α κ λ η σ ε ω ς]. For "suffer," rend. "bear with." See Acts 18:14; 2 Corinthians 11:1; 2 Timothy 4:3. Do not become impatien...
Suffer the word of exhortation — Addressed to you in this letter, which, though longer than my usual letters, is yet contained in few words, considering the copiousness of the subject....
Our apostle had shut up and closed his epistle before: he adds these verses by way of postscript. Now he begs of them kindly to accept, and wisely to improve, the exhortations given them in this epist...