For here we have no continuing city,— When the apostle said, Let us go forth unto him without the camp, he speaks as if we were in our wilderness state, travelling toward the place of our rest. In the wilderness the Jews were obliged to dwell in tents, and had no fixed place of abode; we who believe in Christ, are but strangers here, travelling to the heavenly Jerusalem.
Verse 14. _FOR HERE HAVE WE NO CONTINUING CITY_] Here is an elegant and forcible allusion to the approaching destruction of Jerusalem. The Jerusalem that was _below_ was about to be burnt with fire,...
FOR HERE WE HAVE NO CONTINUING CITY ... - We do not regard this as our final home, or our fixed abode, and we should be willing to bear reproaches during the little time that we are to remain here; co...
CHAPTER 13 _ 1. The practical walk (Hebrews 13:1)_ 2. The call to separation (Hebrews 13:7) 3. Conclusions (Hebrews 13:17)...
Admonitions concerning Church discipline. The brethren are to cherish the memory of their former leaders, who instructed them in the truth of God and exemplified it in their life and death. Jesus Chri...
Do not let yourselves be carried away by subtle and strange teachings, for it is a fine thing to have your heart made strong by grace not by the eating of different kinds of food, for they never did a...
THE MARKS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Hebrews 13:1-6)...
SEEK. Same word in Hebrews 11:14. ONE TO COM. = the coming one....
_one to come_ Rather, "the city which is to be" (Hebrews 11:10; Hebrews 11:16). Our earthly city here may be destroyed, and we may be driven from it, or leave it of our own accord; this is nothing, fo...
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...
THE ONE SACRIFICE OF THE CHRISTIAN, AND THE SACRIFICES WHICH HE MUST OFFER...
ΤῊΝ ΜΈΛΛΟΥΣΑΝ. “_The city which is to be_” (Hebrews 11:10; Hebrews 11:16). Our earthly city here may be destroyed, and we may be driven from it, or leave it of our own accord; this is nothing,—for our...
_RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANT -- HEBREWS 13:12-17:_ A list of important Bible truths would have at its top the fact that Jesus died for our sins. (Hebrews 13:12) The Hebrew writer had earlier said, that Je...
ΈΧΟΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь, ΜΈΝΟΥΣΑΝ _praes. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΜΈΝΩ (G3306) пребывать, ΜΈΛΛΟΥΣΑΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΜΈΛΛΩ (G3195) собираться. _Adj. part._, "грядущий" ΈΠΙ...
DISCOURSE: 2348 THE CHRISTIAN’S PORTION Hebrews 13:14. _Here have we no continuing city; but we seek one to come_. ACCUSTOMED as we are to expect a future state of existence, we scarcely ever reflect...
B. _Doctrine and worship. Hebrews 13:8-16_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 13:8-16 Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yea and forever....
OUTSIDE THE CAMP (Hebrews 13:13, Hebrews 13:14) In the preceding article we endeavored to make clear to the reader exactly what was "the camp" from which the apostle exhorted the Hebrews to go forth....
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. HERE - on earth. Those who clung to the earthly sanctuary represent all who cling to this earth. The earthly Jerusalem proved to be no...
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...
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...
In this verse there seems to be a union of two thoughts: (1) We are free to go forth from the city so long held sacred, for our hopes are bound up with no abiding earthly sanctuary. (2) We may not shr...
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 Hebrews are exhorted to keep in remembrance their former leaders, to abide steadfastly by their teaching, to rid themselves of the ideas of Judaism, to bear the shame attaching to the faith of Chr...
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...
FURTHER DUTIES IN CHRIST'S SERVICE The Hebrew brethren were instructed to keep their rulers, which Milligan says would be better rendered “leaders,” in mind. After all, they had taught the word of Go...
We have not a permanent city in this world, but are like pilgrims or banished men, seeking for our happy country of heaven; but in the mean time must offer to God a sacrifice of praise and thanksgivin...
(10) We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. (11) For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burn...
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 POSITION OF CHRISTIANS IN THE WORLD_ ‘For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.’ Hebrews 13:14 These words sum up what was certainly the apostolic mind as to the position o...
14._For here we have no continuing city, etc. _He extends still further the going forth which he had mentioned, even that as strangers and wanderers in this world we should consider that we have no fi...
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...
FOR HERE HAVE WE NO CONTINUING CITY,.... Neither for religious worship, the city of Jerusalem being quickly to be destroyed, nor for civil life to dwell in; and so may have a peculiar regard to the He...
The ensuing context, from hence unto the 17th verse, seems _abstruse,_ and the reasonings of the apostle in it not easy to be apprehended. But expositors do generally overlook it, and attend only unto...
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Ver. 14. _For here we have none_] Improve this argument for the working our hearts off from the things of this world; the beauty of all w...
HEB. 13:14. FOR HERE HAVE WE NO CONTINUING CITY, BUT WE SEEK ONE TO COME. _ Blank Bible: _ 14. _For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come._] The apostle gives this as the reason...
_Wherefore Jesus also_ Who was typified by these sin- offerings; _that he might sanctify_ Might make atonement for, and consecrate to God; _the people_ His church, the spiritual Israel of God; _with h...
HERE HAVE WE NO CONTINUING CITY; our stay on earth will be short. This is a reason why we should cheerfully bear reproach with Jesus, that we may share with him the glory of the heavenly city that is...
Bearing Christ's reproach and working for His glory:...
FOR HERE HAVE WE NO CONTINUING CITY, BUT WE SEEK ONE TO COME....
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...
7-15 The instructions and examples of ministers, who honourably and comfortably closed their testimony, should be particularly remembered by survivors. And though their ministers were some dead, othe...
This is an enforcement of the foregoing duty, as the particle _for_ cleareth; That they have no reason to be discouraged from going forth from Judaism, and those erroneous doctrines, and the world, to...
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude First He says to me, "You know that you who are the servants of God dwell in a strange land; for your city is far away from this one.[2] Clement of Alexandria Stromata...
Hebrews 13:14 For G1063 here G5602 have G2192 (G5719) no G3756 continuing G3306 (G5723) city G4172 but...
OUR ALTAR IS A SPIRITUAL ONE WERE JESUS CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED AND IS OUTSIDE THE CAMP AND OUTSIDE THE CITY WHERE THE LEVITICAL PRIESTS HOLD SWAY AND OUR SACRIFICES ARE OF A DIFFERENT NATURE TO THEIRS ...
‘For we do not have here an abiding city, but we seek after the coming city.' So our eyes are not to be on the earthly Jerusalem. It had become a rejected and defiled city, a corrupt city (Revelation...
Hebrews 13:14. Israel still claimed to be the people of God, and Jerusalem was outwardly His dwelling-place. But God had already quitted it. Jerusalem, with its temple and rites all were condemned. He...
AN ABIDING CITY (μενουσαν πολιν). Jerusalem has lost its charm for followers of Christ. Vincent rightly argues that the Epistle must have been written before the destruction of Jerusalem else a ref...
Hebrews 13:14 An Ever-changing Scene. These words sum up what was certainly the Apostolic mind as to the position of Christians in this world. They were members of a vast, and powerful, and complex a...
Hebrews 13:13 Without the Camp. Consider: I. The exhortation in the text, "Let us go forth therefore unto Him without the camp." (1) It is a call to abiding trust in Christ as our great atoning sac...
Hebrews 13:1 I. Having warned the Hebrews against the dangers of selfishness, fleshly lusts, and covetousness, the Apostle proceeds to warn them against the dangers threatening their faith and loyalty...
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»...
This is a practical chapter at the close of this most instructive Epistle. Hebrews 13:1. _Let brotherly love continue._ The word «continue» implies that the «brotherly love» exists, there are many t...
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...
NO PERMANENT CITY. "We are strangers and foreigners here (Philippians 3:20)_."_ In less than nine years, Jerusalem was demolished!!!...
_Here have we no continuing city_ AN EVER-CHANGING SCENE: These words sum up what was certainly the apostolic mind as to the position of Christians in the world. They were members, as we are, of a v...
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
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 13:13 GO TO HIM OUTSIDE THE CAMP. A metaphor of leaving behind the love of this world and desire for its approval, and embracing the REPROACH of Christ. This imitates Jesus’ re...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 13:10.—This and the following verses form a little episode of argument in the midst of moral exhortations. Reference is made to the feasts which followed sacrif...
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 Corinthians 7:29; 1 Peter 4:7; 2 Corinthians 4:17; 2 Corinthians 4:18;...
For here have we no continuing city [ο υ γ α ρ ε χ ο μ ε ν ω δ ε μ ε ν ο υ σ α ν π ο λ ι ν]. Here, on earth. Continuing city. Let us go forth without the gate to Jesus; for the system which has its ce...
For we have here — On earth No continuing city — All things here are but for a moment; and Jerusalem itself was just then on the point of being destroyed....
These words may be considered either relatively or absolutely: consider them with relation to the context, and their sense is this: "How cheerfully ought believers, according to the advice in the fore...