Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I
It has therefore been well said, "My son, despise not thou the correction of God; nor faint when thou art rebuked of Him. For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth."[72]
Tertullian Of Patience
us to give thanks and rejoice, over and above, at being thought worthy of divine chastisement. "Whom I love," saith He, "I chasten."[112]
Verse Hebrews 12:5. _AND YE HAVE FORGOTTEN_] Or, have ye forgotten the exhortation? This quotation is made from Proverbs 3:11, and shows that the address there, which at first sight appears to be fro...
AND YE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE EXHORTATION - This exhortation is found in Proverbs 3:11. The object of the apostle in introducing it here is, to show that afflictions were designed on the part of God to pr...
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...
Have you forgotten the appeal, an appeal which reasons with you as sons? "My son, do not treat lightly the discipline which the Lord sends; Never lose heart when you are put to the test by him; For t...
THE RACE AND THE GOAL (Hebrews 12:1-2)...
FORGOTTEN. Greek. _eklanthanomai._ Only here. EXHORTATION. Greek. _paraklesis._ See Romans 12:8 and App-134. SPEAKETH. Greek. _dialegomai._ See Acts 17:2. UNTO. to. CHILDREN, SON. Greek. _huios._...
_And ye have forgotten_ "Yet ye have utterly forgotten," or possibly the words may be intended interrogatively "Yet have ye utterly forgotten?" _the exhortation_ "the encouragement," or "strengthenin...
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...
ΚΑῚ ἘΚΛΈΛΗΣΘΕ. “_Yet ye have utterly forgotten_,” or possibly the words may be intended interrogatively, “Yet have ye utterly forgotten?” ΤΗ͂Σ ΠΑΡΑΚΛΉΣΕΩΣ, “_the encouragement_,” or “strengthening co...
_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...
ΈΚΛΈΛΗΣΘΕ _perf. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΚΛΑΝΘΆΝΟΜΑΙ (G1585) заставлять забыть; _med._ забывать, полностью забывать. Предложное сочетание перфектно, с perf., обозначающим полное забвение (МН, 311; Grass...
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...
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,
DIVINE CHASTISEMENT (Hebrews 12:5) The grand truth of Divine Chastisement is inexpressibly blessed, and one which we can neglect only to our great loss. It is of deep importance, for when Scripturall...
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: FORGOTTEN, [ ekleleesthe...
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...
12:5 have (h-3) Or 'And have ye?' sons. (i-14) See Proverbs 3:11 ,Proverbs 3:12 ....
The quotation is from Proverbs 3:11; Proverbs 3:12. 7. RV 'It is for chastening ye endure,' i.e, your sufferings are designed as a discipline or means of education, God dealeth with you as with sons,...
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...
In this cowardly avoidance of trouble and persecution they have been shrinking from that chastening which every son receives from the Lord. WHICH SPEAKETH UNTO YOU. — Better, _which holds converse_ (o...
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...
The Hebrews are reminded that their sufferings are tokens of God's fatherly love and care....
καὶ ἐκλέλησθε.… “And ye have clean forgotten the exhortation, which speaks to you as to sons, My Son, etc.” καὶ introduces a fresh consideration. Calvin, Bleek and others treat the clause as an interr...
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...
SUFFERING CAN BE A FORM OF DISCIPLINE There is a hint the Hebrews were slowing in their fight or race and had forgotten the exhortations of their childhood. The author quoted Proverbs 3:11-12 as an ex...
(5) And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: (5) Secondly, because...
You have forgotten the consolation, &c. He puts them in mind, that it ought to be a subject of great comfort to them, that God calls them his children, his sons, and treats them as his true and legiti...
(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...
_THE DIVINE DISCIPLINE OF LIFE_ ‘Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou th...
5._And ye have forgotten, etc. _I read the words as a question; for he asks, whether they had forgotten, intimating that it was not yet time to forget. But he enters here on the doctrine, that it is u...
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...
AND YE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE EXHORTATION,.... Or consolation, the consolatory word or doctrine, in Proverbs 3:11. This, by their conduct, the apostle feared they had forgotten, and therefore puts them in...
Καὶ ἐκλέλησθε τῆς παρακλήσεως, ἥτις ὑμῖν ὡς υἱοῖς διαλέγεται· Υἱέ μου, μὴ ὀλιγώρει παιδείας Κυρίου, μηδὲ ἐκλύου ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ ἐλεγχόμενος. Παρακλήσεως. Vulg. Lat., “consolationis,” “of the comfort” or “c...
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: Ver. 5. _And ye have forgo...
Heb. 12:3-7. For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin. And ye...
_And ye have forgotten_, &c. As if he had said, If you faint it will appear you have forgotten, _the exhortation_ Wherein God speaks to you with the utmost tenderness; _as unto_ his own dear _children...
THE EXHORTATION; PROVERBS 3:11-12; REVELATION 3:19....
The chastening of God to assist us:...
AND YE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE EXHORTATION WHICH SPEAKETH UNTO YOU AS UNTO CHILDREN, MY SON, DESPISE NOT THOU THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN THOU ART REBUKED OF HIM;...
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; AND YE HAVE FORGOTTEN; eklelhsye, whether rendered interrogatively: have ye forgotten? Or positively: ye have forgotten; either way it carrieth a check upon their forgetfulness of what was of...
Hebrews 12:5 And G2532 forgotten G1585 (G5769) exhortation G3874 which G3748 speaks G1256 (G5736) you G5213 as...
THEY ARE NOT TO FORGET THAT CHASTENING IS GOOD WHEN IT IS AT THE HAND OF A LOVING FATHER (HEBREWS 12:5). And in as far as they are called on to suffer affliction and tribulation, to experience discomf...
‘And you have forgotten the exhortation which speaks to you as to sons, “My son, regard not lightly the chastening (moral training, discipline) of the Lord, Nor faint when you are reproved by him, for...
Hebrews 12:5. AND YE HAVE QUITE FORGOTTEN (not a question, as Calvin, and Delitzsch, and others have suggested; the fact is rather assumed in Hebrews 12:7-11; and a question,; after the strong asserti...
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...
YE HAVE FORGOTTEN (εκλελησθε). Perfect middle indicative of εκλανθανω, to cause to forget, old verb, here only in the N.T. with genitive case as usual.REASONETH WITH YOU (υμιν διαλεγετα). Present...
LORD Jehovah. (Proverbs 3:11); (Proverbs 3:12)....
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN? "You know, if you will remember, that sufferings are evidences of God's love for you!" The quotation is Proverbs 3:11-12 Septuagint. WHEN THE LORD. "Do not think it just as acciden...
_Despise not thou the chastening of the Lord_ HOW TO BEAR AFFLICTIONS The proposition that ariseth from the words is this: It is the duty and best wisdom of afflicted Christians to preserve themselv...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 12:5 Verses Hebrews 12:5 cite Proverbs 3:11. Discipline
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 12:3. CONSIDER.—Place your sufferings in comparison with His. AGAINST HIMSELF.—R.V. renders “against themselves,” which is a well-supported reading. WEARIED.—R...
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 Chronicles 13:9; 1 Chronicles 15:12; 1 Chronicles 15:13; 1 Corinthians 11:32;...
Ye have forgotten [ε κ λ ε λ η σ θ ε]. N. T. o. Common in Class., o LXX The simple verb lanqanein means to escape notice; to be unseen or unknown. Middle and passive, to let a thing escape; forget. So...
And yet ye seem already to have forgotten the exhortation — Wherein God speaketh to you with the utmost tenderness. Despise not thou the chastening of the Lord — Do not slight or make little of it; do...
As if he had said, "By growing weary and faint in your minds, you will plainly show and evidently declare, that you have forgotten that exhortation which God gives, Proverbs.." The want of. diligent c...