Against himself] RV 'against themselves,' A more difficult, but well-attested reading. If correct, it will mean that sinners sin against themselves, either by wronging their own souls (see Proverbs 8:36) or by contradicting their better selves,
4. The struggle has not yet been severe, A mild reproach of faintheartedness is implied: cp. Proverbs 24:10; Jeremiah 12:5.
HEBREWS 12:3 eivj e`auto,n {C} Although external evidence strongly favors either eivj e`autou,j (a* Dgr* syrp Ephraem) or eivj auvtou,j (î13, 46 ab...
Verse Hebrews 12:3. _FOR CONSIDER HIM_] Αναλογισασθε - ἱνα μη καμητε, ταις ψυχαις - εκλυμενοι· Attentively observe and analyze every part of his conduct, enter into his spirit, examine his motives a...
FOR CONSIDER HIM - Attentively reflect on his example that you may be able to bear your trials in a proper manner. THAT ENDURED SUCH CONTRADICTION OF SINNERS - Such opposition. The reference is to the...
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...
THE RACE AND THE GOAL (Hebrews 12:1-2)...
Consider him who steadfastly endured such opposition at the hands of sinners, and compare your lives with his, so that you may not faint and grow weary in your souls. You have not yet had to resist to...
CONSIDER. Greek. _analogizomai._ Only here. THAT. That hath. CONTRADICTION. Greek. _antilogia._ See Hebrews 6:16. Compare Luke 2:34, where the verb _antilego_ occurs. OF. by. Greek. _hupo_. App-104...
_consider_ Lit., "compare yourselves with." Contrast the comparative immunity from anguish of your lot with the agony of His (John 15:20). _that endured_ Who hath endured at the hand of sinners such...
AN EXHORTATION TO PATIENT STEADFASTNESS...
ΕἸΣ ἙΑΥΤΌΝ. The MSS. vary between this reading (A, Vulg.) and εἰς αὑτόν, εἰς αὐτόν and εἰς ἑαυτούς. 3. ἈΝΑΛΟΓΊΣΑΣΘΕ. Lit., “_compare yourselves with_.” Contrast the comparative immunity from anguish...
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...
_RUN THE CHRISTIAN RACE -- HEBREWS 12:1-3:_ This great chapter begins, "wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin whic...
ΆΝΑΛΟΓΊΣΑΣΘΕ _aor. imper. med. (dep.) от_ ΑΝΑΛΟΓΊΖΟΜΑΙ (G357) подсчитывать, полагать, считать. Гл. может включать в себя идею размышления (Michel). _Aor. imper._ призывает к специфическому действию с...
DISCOURSE: 2335 CHRIST’S PATIENCE UNDER SUFFERINGS Hebrews 12:3. _Consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds_. THINGS are good...
CONSIDER HIM— The original word αναλογισασθε is very emphatical: it is a metaphor taken from arithmetical and geometrical propositions; so that it signifies the great accuracy and exactness, with whic...
III. _The perfect and final faith of the Christian dispensation. Hebrews 12:1-29_. A. _Jesus, the Author and Perfector of our faith. Hebrews 12:1-3_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 12:1-3
A CALL TO STEADFASTNESS (Hebrews 12:3, Hebrews 12:4) At first sight it is not easy to trace the thread which unites the passage that was last before us and the verses which are now to engage our atte...
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. FOR - justifying his exhortation, "Looking unto Jesus." CONSIDER, [ analog...
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...
12:3 well (g-3) 'Weigh so as to judge its value,' and sometimes in comparison with other things....
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...
The figure of the race is still continued, “For unless ye thus look unto Jesus ye will grow weary.” CONSIDER. — Literally, _compare;_ place your sufferings by the side of His. HIM THAT ENDURED SUCH C...
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...
ἀναλογίσασθε γὰρ.… The reason for fixing the gaze on Jesus is given. That reason being found in the τοιαύτην. This so great contumely and opposition endured by Jesus the Hebrews are to consider, “to b...
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...
REASONS TO ENDURE SUFFERING Since there have been so many men of faith before, the writer asked his readers to follow their example. The men and women of the previous chapter are witnesses of the fait...
(3) For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. (3) An amplification, taken from the circumstance of the person and the th...
(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...
3._For consider him, etc. _He enforces his exhortation by comparing Christ with us; for if the Son of God, whom it behaves all to adore, willingly underwent such severe conflicts, who of us should dar...
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...
FOR CONSIDER HIM,.... In the greatness of his person, as God, the Son of God, the heir of all things; and in his offices of prophet, priest, and King, as the Saviour of lost sinners, the Leader and Co...
And the apostle carries on the same argument, with respect unto an especial improvement, of it in this verse. Hebrews 12:3. ᾿Αναλογίσασθε γὰρ τὸν τοιαύτην ὑπομεμενηκότα ὑπὸ τῶν ἁμαρτωλῶν εἰς αὑτὸν ἀν...
For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds. Ver. 3. _For consider him_] Gr. αναλογισασθε, _comparationem instituite._ Make...
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...
_For consider him_ Draw the comparison and think; the Lord bore all this, and shall his servants bear nothing? If he suffered, if he endured such things, why should not we do so also? If he, though so...
CONSIDER HIM; meditate much on the character and work of Christ, especially his patience under sufferings, that you may be strengthened and encouraged in following his example....
FOR CONSIDER HIM THAT ENDURED SUCH CONTRADICTION OF SINNERS AGAINST HIMSELF, LEST YE BE WEARIED AND FAINT IN YOUR MINDS. On the basis of the example of faith as set before us in the believers of the O...
AN APPEAL TO HEED THE OLD TESTAMENT EXAMPLES, AIDED BY GOD'S CHASTISEMENT. The example of the believers of old and of Christ:...
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; FOR CONSIDER HIM; the connection is rational, that they ought to regard this example, for that there were greater sufferings behind than any yet they had endured, which would enforce it, as HE...
Hebrews 12:3 For G1063 consider G357 (G5663) endured G5278 (G5761) such G5108 hostility G485 from G5259 sinners...
‘For consider him who has endured such gainsaying of sinners against themselves (or ‘against himself' - see note below), that you wax not weary, fainting in your souls. You have not yet resisted unto...
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...
Hebrews 12:3. FOR (He suffered as well as you, therefore you may well) CONSIDER (properly, compare His case with your own, and gather the lessons) HIM WHO HATH ENDURED (it is His permanent character t...
CONSIDER (αναλογισασθε). First aorist middle imperative of αναλογιζομα, old word to reckon up, to compare, to weigh, only here in the N.T. See κατανοησατε in Hebrews 3:1. Understanding Jesus is the...
CONSIDER Consider well, that is, weigh so as to judge its value. SINNERS SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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....
Hebrews 12:3 I. St. Paul, in the verses of our text, gives us a plain, serious reason for frequent meditation upon Christ's sufferings. It is _not_that we may learn to see how far human cruelty and in...
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...
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...
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,_ Or «entangle us.» Hebrews 1...
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...
THINK. If you feel discouraged, think about what he went through!!!...
_Consider Him that endured such contradiction_ CHRIST’S AFFLICTIONS A LESSON FOR HIS PEOPLE: All heaven considers or looks at Christ. The angels look at Him with reverence and adoring wonder, as the...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 12:3 CONSIDER HIM. Jesus (v. Hebrews 12:2). Many of the readers could identify with the HOSTILITY shown to Jesus (s
_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 Corinthians 15:58; 1 Samuel 12:24; 2 Corinthians 4:1; 2 Corinthians 4:16;...
For consider [α ν α λ ο γ ι σ α σ θ ε γ α ρ]. Gar for introduces the reason for the exhortation to look unto Jesus. Look unto him, for a comparison with him will show you how much more he had to endur...
AFTERWARD Hebrews 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The harvest should not be gathered before it is ripe, nor should its fruitage be reckoned upon, until the time for its garnering has come. In spiritualitie...
Consider — Draw the comparison and think. The Lord bore all this; and shall his servants bear nothing? Him that endured such contradiction from sinners — Such enmity and opposition of every kind Lest...