Darby's translation notes (1890)
Hebrews 4:12
4:12 division (g-20) The passage has, I judge, the sense of dividing between each pair of objects and not of dividing each of the things by itself.
4:12 division (g-20) The passage has, I judge, the sense of dividing between each pair of objects and not of dividing each of the things by itself.
Verse Hebrews 4:12. _FOR THE WORD OF GOD_ is _quick, and powerful_] Commentators are greatly divided concerning the meaning of the phrase 'ολογοςτοςθεου, _the word of God_; some supposing the whole o...
FOR THE WORD OF GOD - The design of this and the following verse is obvious. It is to show that we cannot escape the notice of God; that all insincerity, unbelief, hypocrisy, will be detected by him;...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. What the rest of God is (Hebrews 4:1)_ 2. The power of the Word of God (Hebrews 4:12) Hebrews 4:1 “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into His rest, any on...
HEBREWS 4:1 continues the exposition of Psalms 95. The writer has already dealt with the warning contained therein; now he shows that this very warning implies a promise. In declaring that His rest is...
Let us then be eager to enter into that rest, lest we follow the example of the Israelites and fall into the same kind of disobedience. For the word of God is instinct with life; it is effective; it i...
THE REST WE DARE NOT MISS (Hebrews 4:1-10)...
QUICK. living. Greek. _zao._ Compare App-170. POWERFUL. Greek. _energes._ See 1 Corinthians 16:9, and compare App-172. SHARPER. Greek. _tomoteros._ Only here. THAN. above. Greek. _huper._ App-104....
_For the word of God is quick_ "Quick" is an old English expression for "living;" hence St Stephen speaks of Scripture as "the living oracles" (Acts 7:38). The "word of God" is not here the personal L...
ΨΥΧΗ͂Σ ΚΑΊ. The τε before the καὶ in the rec. (DEK) is not found in אABCHL and was probably suggested by the following ἁρμῶν τε καί. 12. ΖΩ͂Ν ΓᾺΡ Ὁ ΛΌΓΟΣ ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂. The writer feels the force of the...
CONTINUED EXHORTATION TO EMBRACE THE YET OPEN OFFER OF GOD’S REST...
CH. 4. CONTINUED EXHORTATION TO EMBRACE THE YET OPEN OFFER OF GOD’S REST (1–13). EXHORTATION FOUNDED ON THE HIGH PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST (14–16)...
_GREAT MOTIVATION FOR SERVING GOD -- HEBREWS 4:9-13:_ We must take heed to live our lives by the word of God, or doctrine of Jesus Christ. The gospel will quickly find you out if you are guilty of dis...
ΖΏΝ _praes. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΖΆΩ (G2198) быть живым, жить; без артикля подчеркивает особенность. Это слово эмфатическое по своему положению, ΈΝΕΡΓΉΣ (G1756) энергичный, активный, продуктивный. Э...
DISCOURSE: 2284 THE WORD OF GOD QUICK AND POWERFUL Hebrews 4:12. _The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spiri...
FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK, &C.— "The word of God, which promised to the faithful an entrance into God's rest in David's time, and now to us, is not a thing which died, or was forgotten, as soon as...
Exhortation and warnings. Hebrews 4:11-13. _TEXT_ Hebrews 4:11-13 Hebrews 4:11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience....
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO JOSHUA. (Hebrews 4:11-16) The verses which are to be before us complete the present section of our Epistle, a section which begins at Hebrews 3:1 and which has two main divisions:...
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thou...
7 The Hebrew of Psa_95:7-11 reads ''as at Meribah" and "the day of Massah", and the passage refers to the twentieth of Numbers. The quotation substitutes their meanings. Meribah is "contention," or "b...
THE SUPREMACY OF CHRIST. The OT. itself testifies to His supremacy as God's Son over its own chief personages: (a) first the angels, through whom the Jews believed that creation had been effected and...
JESUS CHRIST, GIVER OR THE PROMISED REST, AND HIGH PRIEST TO BEING MEN TO GOD 1-13. Israel through unbelief failed to enter into the promised rest. The rest, therefore, remains open and a promise of...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 WARNING TO OBEY 3:7-4:2 4V1 The same promise of entering the place of God's rest is still there for us. We should be afraid that some...
As in Hebrews 3:12 the warning against the “evil heart of unbelief” is solemnly enforced by the mention of the “Living God,” so here, in pointing to the peril of disobedience, it is to the living powe...
CHAPTER III. FUNDAMENTAL ONENESS OF THE DISPENSATIONS. Hebrews 3:1 - Hebrews 4:13 (R.V.). "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High-priest of our conf...
to Hebrews 4:13. Chapter s 3 and 4 as far as Hebrews 3:13, form one paragraph. The purpose of the writer in this passage, as in the whole Epistle, is to encourage his readers in their allegiance to Ch...
ENTERED BY FAITH AND PRAYER Hebrews 4:11 There is no escape for disobedience and unbelief, because we have to do with the omniscience of God. The conception of Hebrews 4:12 is of a victim appointed f...
The picture of the whole generation who perished in the wilderness is brought to mind, and the question is, What did they lack, and why did they perish? They did not lack the message of "good tidings....
GOD SEES US AS WE ARE Some might think they can deceive God by pretending to be diligent. However, His powerful insight into the depths of man's soul is clearly seen in a full understanding of the nat...
(4) For the (e) word of God [is] (f) quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of (g) soul and (h) spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and [is]...
For the word of God is living, &c. Some understand by the word of God, the eternal word, or Son of God: (to whom may apply all in the 12th and 13th verses) but others rather expound it of the words, p...
(12) For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the...
The epistle to the Hebrews differs in some important respects from all those which have been before us; so much so that many have questioned whether it be the writing of the apostle Paul, of Apollos,...
12._For the word of God is quick, _or _living, etc. _What he says here of the efficacy or power of the word, he says it, that they might know, that it could not be despised with impunity, as though he...
The apostle goes on to apply this part of Israel's history to those whom he was addressing, laying stress on two points:1st, That Israel had failed of entering into rest, through unbelief; 2nd, That t...
FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK AND POWERFUL,.... This is to be understood of Christ, the essential Word of God; for the Word of God was a known name of the Messiah among the Jews; John 1:1 and therefore...
These next verses contain as new enforcement of the precedent exhortation, taken from the consideration of the means of the event threatened in case of unbelief. Two things are apt to arise in the min...
For the word of God _is_ quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and _is_ a discerner of the t...
HEB. 4:12. FOR THE WORD OF GOD (IS) QUICK, AND POWERFUL, AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE DIVIDING ASUNDER OF SOUL AND SPIRIT, AND OF THE JOINTS AND MARROW, AND (IS) A DISCER...
_For the word of God_ As if he had said, Take heed of unbelief, _for the word of God_ will try and condemn you if you be guilty of it. It is greatly debated among commentators whether this is to be un...
THE WORD OF GOD; all his declarations, whether of law or grace, whether of promise or threatening. God, who is its author, imparts to it his own divine energy. It lays open every heart, and detects al...
BOLDNESS IN FAITH IN OUR HIGH PRIEST. The power of God's Word in the face of unbelief:...
FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK, AND POWERFUL, AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD, PIERCING EVEN TO THE DIVIDING ASUNDER OF SOUL AND SPIRIT, AND OF THE JOINTS AND MARROW, AND IS A DISCERNER OF THE THOU...
"Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." This admonition is a continuation of Ch. 3. The promise has been left us,...
11-16 Observe the end proposed: rest spiritual and eternal; the rest of grace here, and glory hereafter; in Christ on earth, with Christ in heaven. After due and diligent labour, sweet and satisfying...
OLBGrk; FOR THE WORD OF GOD: the efficacy of the word of God is a further enforcement of their studious labour to enter into God's rest, for that calleth us thereunto; even the law and doctrine of the...
Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VII But we say that the fire sanctifies[54] Origen de Principiis Book I ,[30] Origen Commentary on John Book I that His mouth had been set by His Father as a sh...
Hebrews 4:12 For G1063 word G3056 God G2316 living G2198 (G5723) and G2532 powerful G1756 and G2532 sharper...
Hebrews 4:12-13 give a fresh reason for this warning. FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK (_i.e_ living) AND POWERFUL. But what is ‘the word of God'? The common Patristic interpretation refers it to the Wor...
THE WORD OF GOD (ο λογος του θεου). That just quoted about the promise of rest and God's rest, but true of any real word of God.LIVING (ζων). Cf. the Living God (Hebrews 3:12). In Philo and the Bo...
Hebrews 4:12 I. The Word of God judges the Christian below. We are familiar with the Word of God. Like Israel, we possess the treasure in our country, in our families. Do we know that in possessing, r...
Hebrews 4:12 Life a Dialogue. There is a Word of God to us; there is also a word of ours to God. The Divine word and the human. The word which speaks, and the word which answers and makes reply. I....
Hebrews 4:1. _Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest any of you should seem to come short of it._ Not only dread coming short, but dread the very appearance of...
CONTENTS: The better rest for the believer. The perfect work of redemption. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, David. CONCLUSION: The privileges by Christ under the Gospel are far greater than those enjoyed un...
Hebrews 4:1. _Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it._ This caution is repeated from the preseding chapter, but the r...
THE WORD OF GOD. The Israelites were turned away when they refused to hear and believe. The message of the Good News calls us to go _into_ God's Rest. This word is alive and active, because of its _in...
_The Word of God is quick and powerful_ THE WORD A SWORD It may be most accurate to interpret this passage as relating both to the Word of God incarnate, and the Word of God inspired. Christ and Hi...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 4:12 The warning continues: faithless disobedience will not go unnoticed. WORD OF GOD. Usually this phrase in Hebrews 1:1 refers to the message
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 4:1 Continuing to use Psalms 95:1, the author focuses on the word “rest.” The section makes most sense if the rest is understood as having begun but still awaiting completion.
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 4:12. WORD OF GOD.—Either (1) the personal Word, the Λόγος; or (2) the revealed word, to which the writer has been appealing; or (3) the spoken word of God, w...
EXPOSITION A REST STILL OFFERED TO CHRISTIANS. HEBREWS 4:1 LET US FEAR, THEREFORE, LEST, A PROMISE BEING STILL LEFT OF ENTERING INTO HIS REST, ANY ONE OF YOU SHOULD SEEM TO HAVE COME SHORT. This ve...
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it (Hebrews 4:1). As you look at your own heart tonight, is it at rest? Have you...
1 Corinthians 1:24; 1 Corinthians 14:24; 1 Corinthians 14:25; 1 Peter 1:23;...
The exhortation is enforced by reference to the character of the revelation which sets forth the rest of God. The message of God which promises the rest and urges to seek it, is no dead, formal precep...
LET US Hebrews 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Every book in the Bible is correlated with every other book. The Bible is a perfect whole. No book can be taken away without its unity and continuity being bro...
For the word of God — Preached, Hebrews 4:2, and armed with threatenings, Hebrews 4:3. Is living and powerful — Attended with the power of the living God, and conveying either life or death to the hea...
As if the apostle had said, "Take heed especially of unbelief: for the word of God, or doctrine of the gospel will quickly find you out, if you be guilty of it." There is. piercing power in the word o...