Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Hebrews 12:12
Wherefore lift up the hands — Whether your own or your brethren's. That hang down — Unable to continue the combat. And the feeble knees — Unable to continue the race. Isaiah 35:3.
Wherefore lift up the hands — Whether your own or your brethren's. That hang down — Unable to continue the combat. And the feeble knees — Unable to continue the race. Isaiah 35:3.
Verse Hebrews 12:12. _WHEREFORE LIFT UP THE HANDS_] The apostle refers to Isaiah 35:3. The words are an address to persons almost worn out with sickness and fatigue, whose hands hang down, whose knee...
WHEREFORE - In view of the facts which have been now stated - that afflictions are sent from God, and are evidences of his paternal watchfulness. LIFT UP THE HANDS WHICH HANG DOWN - As if from wearine...
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 ...
With the example of Christ before them the readers are to show more constancy under their own sufferings. They are to think of Him whose life was so thwarted by wicked men, and thus nerve themselves t...
So, then, lift up the slack hands. Strengthen the weak knees. And make straight the paths of your feet so that the bones of the lame may not be completely dislocated but rather may be cured. Make peac...
THE RACE AND THE GOAL (Hebrews 12:1-2)...
LIFT UP. Greek. _anorthoo._ See Luke 13:13. Elsewhere Acts 15:16. HANG DOWN. Greek. _pariemai._ Only here. FEEBLE. palsied. Greek. _paraluomai._ See Luke 5:18....
_Wherefore_ The poetic style, and even the metrical form of diction in these two verses (of which Hebrews 12:13 contains a complete hexameter, καὶ τροχιὰς ὀρθὰς ποιήσατε τοῖς ποσὶν ὑμῶν and half an...
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...
FATHERLY CHASTISEMENTS SHOULD BE CHEERFULLY ENDURED...
ΔΙΌ. The poetic style, and even the metrical form of diction, in these two verses (of which Hebrews 12:13 contains a complete hexameter, καὶ τροχιὰς ὀρθὰς ποιήσατε τοῖς ποσὶν ὑμῶν and half an iambic...
_RUN WITH ENDURANCE -- HEBREWS 12:4-17:_ Christians must be faithful, even during the worst of suffering. Christ suffered, even unto death. His sufferings are contrasted with the sufferings of the Heb...
ΠΑΡΕΙΜΈΝΑΣ _perf. pass. part. (adj.) от_ ΠΑΡΊΗΜΙ (G3935) позволять отпасть, ослабевать; _pass._ быть вялым, опустившимся (BAGD). ΠΑΡΑΛΕΛΥΜΈΝΑ _perf. pass. part. (adj.) от_ ΠΑΡΑΛΎΩ (G3886) ронять, рас...
DISCOURSE: 2336 AFFLICTIONS THE FRUIT OF GOD’S LOVE Hebrews 12:4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto child...
WHEREFORE, LIFT UP THE HANDS, &C.— It is certain that these are likewise Agonistic phrases: Dr. Heylin renders the verse, _Invigorate then your hands which are remiss, and your knees which are feeble....
B. _Perils threatening the life of faith. Hebrews 12:4-17_. 1. _Failure to respond to chastening. Hebrews 12:4-13_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:4 Ye have not yet resisted unto blood,
A CALL TO STEADFASTNESS (Hebrews 12:12, Hebrews 12:13) The didactic (teaching) portions of Scripture are very much more than abstract statements of truth: they are designed not only for the instructi...
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; He addresses them as runners, pugilists, warriors (Chrysostom). WHEREFORE - resumed from Hebrews 12:1. LIFT UP, [ anorthoosate...
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...
12:12 knees; (n-12) See Isaiah 35:3 ....
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. — As in Hebrews 10:24, the writer passes from the thought of personal risk and duty, to speak (in Hebrews 12:12) of that which is binding on all members of a community. “Wherefore” — since...
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...
διὸ τὰς παρειμένας … “Wherefore” introducing the immediate application of this encouraging view of trials, “lift up” to renew the conflict, “the nerveless hands” fallen to your side and “the paralysed...
The Hebrews are reminded that their sufferings are tokens of God's fatherly love and care....
ENDURE CHASTENING; SEEK HOLINESS Hebrews 12:9 If we are God's children, we will not look on suffering as a punishment. Chastening it may be, but not the penalty of sin. It is administered by our Fath...
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...
AN EXHORTATION TO CONTINUE TO THE END OF THE RACE The writer urged the Hebrews to take strength from knowing God loved them and continue the race. To aid in this, he encouraged them to choose as strai...
(8) Wherefore lift up the hands which (d) hang down, and the feeble knees; (8) The conclusion: we must go forward courageously and keep always a right course and (as far forth as we may) without any...
_Wherefore life up the [4] hands, &c. Be fervent in piety, walk firmly in the way of virtue, make straight [5] steps, without declining to one side or the other, without halting or going astray, and s...
(3) For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. (4) Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. (5) And ye h...
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...
12._Wherefore, lift up, etc. _After having taught us that God regards our salvation when he chastises us, he then exhorts us to exert ourselves vigorously; for nothing will more weaken us and more ful...
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...
Ver. 12 WHEREFORE LIFT UP THE HANDS WHICH HANG DOWN,.... These words may be considered as spoken to the Hebrews, with respect to themselves; accordingly, the Syriac version reads, "your hands", and "y...
In these verses an entrance is made into the second part of the chapter, which is designed unto the application of the doctrine concerning sufferings, afflictions, and chastisements, before insisted o...
Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees; Ver. 12. _Lift up the hands_] Pluck up your good hearts, and buckle close to your business; how else will you run the race that is s...
HEB. 12:11-13. NOW NO CHASTENING FOR THE PRESENT SEEMETH TO BE JOYOUS, BUT GRIEVOUS: NEVERTHELESS, AFTERWARD IT YIELDETH THE PEACEABLE FRUIT OF RIGHTEOUSNESS UNTO THEM WHICH ARE EXERCISED THEREBY. WHE...
_Wherefore_ Since afflictions are so beneficial; _lift up the hands_ Whether your own or your brethren's; _which hang down_ Unable to continue the combat; shake off discouragement, sloth, and indolenc...
LIFT UP; encourage and animate the desponding. Isaiah 35:3-4....
WHEREFORE LIFT UP THE HANDS WHICH HANG DOWN, AND THE FEEBLE KNEES,...
The object of God's chastening:...
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...
12-17 A burden of affliction is apt to make the Christian's hands hang down, and his knees grow feeble, to dispirit him and discourage him; but against this he must strive, that he may better run his...
OLBGrk; This introduceth the use of the doctrine of God's chastening providences, stated before. WHEREFORE concludes the rationality and necessity of the duty subjoined, as consequent from the truth a...
Hebrews 12:12 Therefore G1352 strengthen G461 (G5657) hands G5495 down G3935 (G5772) and G2532 feeble G3886 ...
‘Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down, and the palsied knees, and make straight paths for your feet, that that which is lame be not turned out of the way (or ‘put out of joint'), but rather be h...
Hebrews 12:12-17. Further exhortations. Hebrews 12:12. WHEREFORE (connecting the practical appeals, as is usual in this Epistle, with the reasoning and imagery of the previous verses) LIFT UP (make st...
WHEREFORE (διο). Because of the chastening.LIFT UP (ανορθωσατε). First aorist active imperative of ανορθοω, old compound (from ανα, ορθος) to make straight, in N.T. here and Luke 13:13; Acts 15:1...
Hebrews 12:12 Religious Cowardice.. The encouragement which we derive from St. Mark's history is, that the feeblest among us may, through God's grace, become strong; and the warning to be drawn from...
Hebrews 12:3 I. Chastisement is sent by fatherly love. There, where we are most sensitive, God touches us. The thorn in the flesh is something which we fancy we cannot bear if it were to be lifelong....
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, and let us run with patience th...
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...
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...
LIFT UP YOUR LIMP HANDS. "Push ahead with all your strength!" Compare Job 4:1-6....
_Lift up the hands which hang down_ CHRISTIAN COMPASSION: The words of the text are taken from Isaiah 35:3, and are addressed to the believing Hebrews as an admonition to comfort and encourage one a...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 12:12 Using poetic language (perhaps drawn from Isaiah and Proverbs 1:1) the author encourages his readers to endure in the race they are running (see v....
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 12:9. FATHER OF SPIRITS.—See Numbers 16:22; Numbers 27:16; Zechariah 12:1. “The Creator of
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 Thessalonians 5:14; Daniel 5:6; Ezekiel 21:7; Ezekiel 7:17; Heb
Wherefore [δ ι ο]. Because chastening is thus necessary, and serves for wholesome discipline, and issues in holiness.. Lift up [α ν ο ρ θ ω σ α τ ε]. Found in Luke 13:13; Acts 14:16 [χ ι τ ν]. Occasio...
As if our apostle had said, "Seeing so glorious fruits spring from sanctified afflictions be not dejected in mind, nor suffer fear to seize upon you, which weakens the hands, and enfeebles the knees,...