Scofield's Bible Commentary
Hebrews 13:7
whose faith
Literally, considering the issue of the conversation of whom, imitate the faith.
whose faith
Literally, considering the issue of the conversation of whom, imitate the faith.
Verse Hebrews 13:7. _REMEMBER THEM WHICH HAVE THE RULE OVER YOU_] This clause should be translated, _Remember your guides_, των ηγουμενων, _who have spoken unto you the doctrine of God_. Theodoret's...
REMEMBER THEM WHICH HAVE THE RULE OVER YOU - Margin, “are the guides.” The word used here means properly “leaders, guides, directors.” It is often applied to military commanders. Here it means teacher...
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...
THE MARKS OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE (Hebrews 13:1-6)...
Remember your leaders, the men who spoke the word of God to you. Look back on how they made their exit from this life and imitate their faith. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and for ever...
REMEMBER. See Hebrews 11:15. THEM, &C. = your leaders (Greek. _hegeomai,_ as verses: Hebrews 13:17; Hebrews 13:24). WHO. such as. HAVE SPOKEN. spoke. Greek. _laleo_. App-121
_them which have the rule over you, who have spoken_ Rather, "your leaders, who spoke to you;" for, as the next clause shews, these spiritual leaders were dead. At this time the ecclesiastical organis...
ΤΩ͂Ν ἩΓΟΥΜΈΝΩΝ … ΟἽΤΙΝΕΣ. “_Your leaders, who spoke to you_”; for, as the next clause shews, these spiritual leaders were dead. At this time the ecclesiastical organisation was still unfixed. The vagu...
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...
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_REACT TO CERTAIN PEOPLE -- HEBREWS 13:7-11:_ God's people must react to those around them and Him who is above them. The greatest responsibility in the entire world is that of serving as an elder in...
ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΜΝΗΜΟΝΕΎΩ (G3421) помнить, поминать, с _gen._ Здесь в значении: "не забывайте почитать их" ΉΓΟΥΜΈΝΩΝ _praes. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΉΓΈΟΜΑΙ (G2233) вести. Subst. ис...
REMEMBER THEM WHICH HAVE THE RULE,— _Who have had the rule._ Bishop Lloyd thinks that this may refer to _James the apostle,_ and to James commonly called the first bishop of Jerusalem, both of whom ha...
IV. _Final exhortation regarding duties pertaining to the Truth. Hebrews 13:1-25_. A. _Social duties. Hebrews 13:1-7_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 13:1-7...
MOTIVES TO FIDELITY (Hebrews 13:7, Hebrews 13:8) In seeking to ascertain the meaning and scope of the verses which now require our consideration due notice must be taken of their setting, and that, i...
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. REMEMBER - so as to imitate: not to invoke, as...
22 There is a studied contrast here between the scene presented to the physical eye at Mount Sinai and the prospect of faith in connection with the new covenant. Mount Sinai itself is suggestive of an...
13:7 conversation, (n-19) i.e. 'conduct,' 'manner of life,' as 1 Timothy 4:12 ....
WHICH HAVE THE RULE] RV 'that had the rule.. which spake.' The words end of their conversation (see Hebrews 13:8) indicate that they were no longer living. RV renders, 'issue of their life.' 8. AY sug...
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...
WHICH HAVE THE RULE. — Rather, _which were your leaders_ (Hebrews 13:17; Hebrews 13:24; Acts 15:22), _who spake unto you the word of God._ These spiritual guides had been removed from them by death. W...
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...
SANCTIFY DAILY LIFE Hebrews 13:1 We may not like _all_ the brethren, but there is something in each of them that Christ loves. Let us try to discover it, or love them for His sake. We can love peopl...
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...
(4) Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of [their] conversation. (4) We have to set before us the examples of...
_Remember your prelates, &c. who have been placed over you to be your guides and directors in what belongs to the service of God; he seems to mean the two Sts. James, the apostles, who perhaps had alr...
(7) Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. (8) Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today,...
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...
7._Remember, etc. _What follows refers not so much to morals as to doctrine. He first sets before the Jews the example of those by whom they had been taught; and he seems especially to speak of those...
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...
REMEMBER THEM WHICH HAVE THE RULE OVER YOU,.... Christ's church is a kingdom, and he is King in it; pastors of churches are subordinate governors; who rule well when they rule not in an arbitrary way,...
From a prescription of the foregoing duties of _morality,_ and obedience in them, the apostle proceeds unto those which concern _faith_ and worship, laying the foundation of them in that respect which...
Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of _their_ conversation. Ver. 7. _Them which have the rule_] Gr. ηγουμενο...
Heb. 13:2-8. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; (and) them which suffer adversity, as bei...
_Remember them who have the rule over you_ Των ηγουμενων υμων, or, _who are_, or rather, _were, the guides of you_, namely, formerly; _who have spoken_ Or, _who spake; unto you the word of God_ Rememb...
THEM WHICH HAVE THE RULE; your leaders and guides; those who have proclaimed to you the will of God. THE END; of their earthly course; their peaceful, happy, joyful death. Acts 7:59-60; Philippians 1:...
REMEMBER THEM WHICH HAVE THE RULE OVER YOU, WHO HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU THE WORD OF GOD; WHOSE FAITH FOLLOW, CONSIDERING THE END OF THEIR CONVERSATION....
An admonition to stand firm:...
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...
HAVE THE RULE: Or, are the guides...
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...
Imitation of their godly ministers, is another duty that Christ's law chargeth on his subjects, both here and HEBREWS 13:17. REMEMBER THEM WHICH HAVE THE RULE OVER YOU, WHO HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU THE WO...
Didache My child, him that speaketh to thee the word of God remember night and day; and thou shalt honour him as the Lord;[42] The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity For the Scripture ha...
Hebrews 13:7 Remember G3421 (G5720) rule G2233 (G5740) you G5216 who G3748 spoken G2980 (G5656) word...
‘Remember those who had the rule over you, men who spoke to you the word of God; and considering the issue (or ‘end') of their life, follow (or ‘imitate') the faith, “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday,...
Hebrews 13:7. This verse is connected in part with the preceding. REMEMBER THEM WHO ARE YOUR LEADERS a title found only in this chapter in the Epistles, but used in the Gospels and Acts for the leader...
REMEMBER (μνημονευετε). Present active imperative of μνημονευω, old verb to be _mindful_ of (from μνημων, mindful) with genitive (John 15:20) or accusative (Matthew 16:9). "Keep in mind." Cf. Hebrew...
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...
REMEMBER YOUR FORMER LEADERS. James the brother of John, and James the Lord's brother, were both dead at this time. They had been closely connected with the Jerusalem church. There would be many other...
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 13:7 LEADERS. See also v. Hebrews 13:17. Those who SPOKE the WORD OF GOD (lik
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 13:8.—Read “Jesus Christ is the same.” “The unchangeableness of Christ is a reason for not being swept about by winds of strange teaching. But a suggestion has...
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 10:13; 1 Corinthians 11:1; 1 Corinthians 4:16; 1 Thessalonians 1:6;...
Remember them which have the rule over you [μ ν η μ ο ν ε υ ε τ ε τ ω ν η γ ο υ μ ε ν ω ν υ μ ω ν]. Remember, with a view to observing their admonitions. For twn hJgoumenwn those who lead or rule, see...
Remember them — Who are now with God, considering the happy end of their conversation on earth....
The next duty recommended to them, is respect to the spiritual guides and ecclesiastical governors, whom God by death or persecution at any time removes from them, and that is, to preserve their memor...