He is able; having endured sufferings and temptations, he is fitted to sympathize with and deliver others who endure them. Jesus Christ being both God and man, perfectly understands and rightly regards the claims of God and the character and interests of men, and is thus prepared to bring glory to God in the highest, and manifest most effectively good will to men.
Verse Hebrews 2:18. _FOR IN THAT HE HIMSELF HATH SUFFERED_] The maxim on which this verse is founded is the following: A state of suffering disposes persons to be compassionate, and those who endure...
FOR IN THAT HE HIMSELF ... - “Because” he has suffered, he is able to sympathize with sufferers. BEING TEMPTED - Or, being “tried.” The Greek word used here is more general in its meaning than the En...
II. CHRIST, SON OF MAN, HIS GLORY AND HIS SALVATION CHAPTER 2:5-18 _ 1. The Man crowned with glory and honor (Hebrews 2:5)_ 2. His humiliation, suffering and the results (Hebrews 2:10) Hebrews 2:5...
HEBREWS 1:5 TO HEBREWS 2:18. THE SON IS SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS. For this theme the way has been prepared in the closing words of Hebrews 1:14. The section may possibly be directed against angel-worshi...
Resuming his argument, the writer deals with the objection that Christ cannot be ranked above the angels in view of His earthly humiliation. This objection is answered by conclusions drawn from _Psalm...
For, in his work of bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting that he for whom everything exists and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of salvation fully adequate for his desti...
THE SALVATION WE DARE NOT NEGLECT (Hebrews 2:1-4)...
IN THAT. wherein. TEMPTED. tried or tested. Compare Matthew 4:1 and Luke 22:23. SUCCOUR. Compare 2 Corinthians 6:2....
_For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted_ These words have been taken, and grammatically may be explained, in eight or nine different ways. One of the best ways is that here given by the A....
ἘΝ ὮΙ ΓᾺΡ ΠΈΠΟΝΘΕΝ ΑΥ̓ΤῸΣ ΠΕΙΡΑΣΘΕΊΣ. These words have been taken, and grammatically may be explained, in eight or nine different ways. One of the best ways is that given by the A. V. and endorsed by...
A FULLER STATEMENT OF THE MORAL FITNESS OF CHRIST’S PARTICIPATION IN HUMAN SUFFERINGS...
CH. 2. A SOLEMN WARNING AND EXHORTATION (1–4). CHRIST’S TEMPORARY HUMILIATION FOR THE REDEMPTION AND GLORIFICATION OF MANKIND DOES NOT DISPARAGE HIS PRE-EMINENCE OVER ANGELS (5–13), BUT WAS NECESSARY...
_HOW THE SAVIOUR IS ABLE TO SUCCOR THOSE THAT ARE TEMPTED -- HEBREWS 2:16-18:_ Christ did not take upon himself the nature of angles because the angels sinned without a tempter. There was no one who s...
ΠΈΠΟΝΘΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΠΆΣΧΩ (G3958) страдать. _Perf._ подчеркивает, что, хоть искушения, которые Христос претерпел во плоти, остались в прошлом, их результат по-прежнему действует — как состра...
DISCOURSE: 2277 CHRIST’S POWER TO SUCCOUR THE TEMPTED Hebrews 2:18. _In that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted_. THERE was in various respects a nec...
b. _It was necessary for Christ to become human in order to sympathise with men through experience. Hebrews 2:16-18_ _TEXT_ Hebrews 2:16-18 16 For verily not to angels doth He give help, but He giv...
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO ANGELS. (Hebrews 2:17, Hebrews 2:18) The verses which are now to be before us complete the second main division of the Epistle, in which the apostle has set forth the superiority o...
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. FOR - How His being made like His brethren in all things has made Him a merciful and faithful High...
11 The destruction of the earth and the heavens is but a crisis in their change (12), for they are not to be made non-existent, but created anew. All things are in a state of flux until the consummati...
JESUS EXALTED IN HUMILIATION 1-4. The former dispensation, even though mediated by comparatively inferior beings such as the angels, was yet so sacred that all neglect of it was severely punished. Th...
RM 'having been himself tempted in that wherein he hath suffered.' This is the simplest rendering of a difficult passage. Christ's temptations arose out of His sufferings (not conversely, as AV seems...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 JESUS IS SUPERIOR TO *ANGELS IN HIS MESSAGE 2:1-4 V1 That is why we must take in what we have heard. We must do this so that we do not...
(5-18) It was needful that Jesus, as Author of salvation to man, should in all points be made like to those whom He saves, and in their likeness suffer and die; thus He becomes for them a merciful and...
FOR. — The necessity of being “in all things made like to His brethren” has been shown from the nature of the case; it is now illustrated from the result. The “brethren” and the “people” of Hebrews 2:...
CHAPTER II THE SON AND THE ANGELS Hebrews 1:4 - Hebrews 2:18 The most dangerous and persistent error against which the theologians of the New Testament had to contend was the doctrine of emanations....
ἐν ᾧ γὰρ πέπονθεν.… He concludes this part of his argument by explaining the process by which Christ's becoming man has answered the purpose of making Him a merciful and faithful High Priest. The expl...
to Hebrews 2:18. _The Son and the Angels_. Hebrews 1:4, although forming part of the sentence 1 3, introduces a subject which continues to be more or less in view throughout chaps 1 and 2. The exaltat...
Having sufficiently brought out the permanence and sovereignty of the Son by contrasting them with the fleeting personality and ministerial function of angels, the author now proceeds to bring the sup...
The humiliation of the Son justified; “a condensed and pregnant view of the theory of the whole work of Christ, which subsequent Chapter s develop, eludicate, and justify dialectically, in contrast or...
“MADE LIKE UNTO HIS BRETHREN” Hebrews 2:10 _ Captain_ reminds us of Acts 3:15. It means _file-leader_. The Church follows its Leader, Jesus Christ, in single file through this world, the cross and th...
Here we have the first of a series of warnings uttered in connection with the arguments. If the ministrations of angels had been of so steadfast a character, how much more the speech of the Son. The d...
WHY DID JESUS COME TO EARTH? Jesus' purpose on earth was not to release angels from slavery, but man (2:16). Lightfoot says, "The entire thought is that He laid hold of men in order to help them out...
For in that he himself hath suffered being (g) tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. (g) Was tried and urged to wickedness by the devil....
REFLECTIONS Oh! for grace to take heed to those things, which I have heard of God's covenant love and salvation; that, through the sweet office of God the Holy Ghost, as the Remembrancer of Christ Je...
(16) For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. (17) Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merc...
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,...
_THE HELP OF CHRIST_ ‘Able to succour.’ Hebrews 2:18 We are always more or less in need of help, but this passage suggests that there are special times in our lives when that need is felt more than...
_THE SYMPATHY OF CHRIST_ ‘For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour them that are tempted.’ Hebrews 2:18 Many purposes, no doubt, were answered by the temptation of...
18._For in that he himself has suffered, etc. _Having been tried by our evils, he is ready, he says, to bring us help. The word _temptation _here means no other thing than experience or probation; and...
This is the reason why it is so much the more needful to hearken t the word spoken, in order that they should not let it pass away form life and memory. God had maintained the authority of the word th...
FOR IN THAT HE HIMSELF HATH SUFFERED BEING TEMPTED,.... By Satan, at his entrance on his public ministry, and a little before his death; which was done, not by stirring up sin in him, for he had none,...
Having declared the general reasons why the Son or Messiah was for a little while to be made lower than the angels, in his incarnation and sufferings, and showed the ends thereof, the apostle proceeds...
For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. Ver. 18. _He is able to succour_] And no less apt than able; as he that hath been poor, or troubled wi...
HEB. 2:17-18. WHEREFORE IN ALL THINGS IT BEHOOVED HIM TO BE MADE LIKE UNTO (HIS) BRETHREN, THAT HE MIGHT BE A MERCIFUL AND FAITHFUL HIGH PRIEST IN THINGS (PERTAINING) TO GOD, TO MAKE RECONCILIATION F...
_Wherefore in all things_ That essentially pertain to our nature, and in all sufferings and temptations; _it behooved him_ In respect of the office, duty, and employment he had taken upon him; or it w...
FOR IN THAT HE HIMSELF HATH SUFFERED, BEING TEMPTED, HE IS ABLE TO SUCCOR THEM THAT ARE TEMPTED. This paragraph is closely connected in thought with the preceding argument, since it concludes the proo...
THE DELIVERANCE EFFECTED BY CHRIST. Hebrews 2:14...
The first four verses of this chapter now press upon us the appropriate conclusions that must be drawn from so transcendent a revelation of the glory of God. "For this reason we should give heed more...
14-18 The angels fell, and remained without hope or help. Christ never designed to be the Saviour of the fallen angels, therefore he did not take their nature; and the nature of angels could not be a...
FOR IN THAT HE HIMSELF HATH SUFFERED: the reason foregoing the Spirit illustrates in this verse; he is such a merciful and faithful High Priest, by being a sufferer himself, which he could not have be...
Hebrews 2:18 For G1063 in G1722 that G3739 He G3958 Himself G846 suffered G3958 (G5754) tempted G3985 ...
Hebrews 2:18. IN THAT HE SUFFERED, BEING TEMPTED, is on the whole the best rendering of the Greek. It may admit of a limited sense, ‘In that wherein He suffered, being tempted,' or, ‘having been tempt...
DOCTRINAL HINTS. In this Epistle, as in the Gospel of John, the doctrine is based on the Divine nature of Christ, and on His incarnation. As in the Gospel (John 1:1-18) it is said that the Word was Go...
IN THAT (εν ω). Literally, "In which" (=εν τουτω εν ω, in that in which), a causal idea, though in Romans 14:22 εν ω means "wherein."HATH SUFFERED (πεπονθεν). Second perfect active indicative of...
Hebrews 2:18 I. The Divine Son of God, before His incarnation in our flesh, was in His own personal being separate from the sons of men. The counsels of infinite love resulted in His becoming the Savi...
Hebrews 2:11 I. The first truth which is brought before us in these verses is, that Jesus, who is not ashamed to call Himself brother, and us His brethren, is one with us. We who are sanctified by Him...
Hebrews 2:1. _Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip._ It is well to give heed to what you are now hearing, but i...
CONTENTS: Warning against neglecting so great a salvation. Earth to be put under Christ. Jesus temporarily lower than angels to work out salvation for man. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Satan...
Hebrews 2:1. _We ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard._ The things relating to the glory of the person of Christ, and all his offices as mediator; these we ought to st...
BECAUSE. Because he has experienced all these things himself, he is able to help those who are tempted. Compare Matthew 4:1-11 and notes. Note that temptation itself is not sin, but it can lead into s...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 2:5 Jesus is also superior to angels since, as Son of Man, the world is subjected to him, though this has yet to be fully revealed (vv. Hebrews 2:5). Jesus’ sacrificial sufferi...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 2:18 SUFFERED. Jesus’ sufferings as a human, especially his death (vv. Hebrews 2:9). TEMPTED. Jesus, as high priest, w
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 2:5. WORLD TO COME.—The new dispensation. Rabbinical teaching was divided under two heads: (1) _hâ‘ôlâm hazzeh_ (the present world), and (2) _hâ‘ôlâm habbâ_ ...
EXPOSITION HEBREWS 2:1 INTERPOSED EXHORTATION as explained above. HEBREWS 2:1 ON THIS ACCOUNT (_i.e. _on account of what has been seen of the SON'S superiority to the angels)...
1 Corinthians 10:13; 2 Corinthians 12:7; 2 Peter 2:9; 2 Timothy 1:12;...
In that he himself hath suffered being tempted [ε ν ω γ α ρ π ε π ο ν θ ε ν α υ τ ο ς π ε ι ρ α σ θ ε ι ς]. Rend. for having himself been tempted in that which he suffered. The emphasis is on having b...
For in that he hath suffered being tempted himself he is able to succour them that are tempted — That is, he has given a manifest, demonstrative proof that he is able so to do....
Was it possible for Christ to have sinned? PROBLEM: The writer of Hebrews says that Christ “had to be made like His brethren in all things… For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffe...