Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Hebrews 11:25
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the (p) pleasures of sin for a season;
(p) Such pleasures as he could not enjoy, unless he provoked God's wrath against him.
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the (p) pleasures of sin for a season;
(p) Such pleasures as he could not enjoy, unless he provoked God's wrath against him.
CHOOSING RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD - With those whom God had chosen to he his people - the Israelites. They were then oppressed and down-trodden; but they were the descendants...
IV. PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS AND EXHORTATIONS CHAPTER 11 _ 1. Faith in regard to creation and salvation (Hebrews 11:1)_ 2. The patience of faith (Hebrews 11:8) 3. The energy of faith (Hebrews 11:23
The survey now passes from the age of the patriarchs to that of Moses and the Judges. It was the faith of his parents that saved Moses in his infancy; and his life, when he grew to manhood, had faith...
It was by faith that Moses, when he was born, was kept hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful: and they did not fear the edict of the king. It was by fai...
THE CHRISTIAN HOPE (Hebrews 11:1-3)...
CHOOSING. Having chosen. Greek. _haireomai._ See Philippians 1:1; Philippians 1:22. SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH. Greek. _sunka koucheomai._ Only here. PEOPLE. Greek. _laos_. See Acts 2:47....
_with the people of Cod_ Hebrews 4:9. _the pleasures of sin for a season_ The _brevity_of sinful enjoyment is alluded to in Job 20:5, "The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocr...
CH. 11. THE HEROES OF FAITH The main task of the writer has now been performed, but the remainder of the Epistle had also a very important purpose. It would have been fatal to the peace of mind of a J...
ΤΩ͂Ι ΛΑΩ͂Ι ΤΟΥ͂ ΘΕΟΥ͂. Hebrews 4:9. ΠΡΌΣΚΑΙΡΟΝ. The _brevity_ of sinful enjoyment is alluded to in Job 20:5, “The triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.” Th...
_SOME WHO LIVED BY FAITH -- HEBREWS 11:4-31:_ The writer of Hebrews has now set forth what faith is and how faith works. He proceeds to list a "Hall of fame" of Old Testament characters who lived 'by...
ΜΆΛΛΟΝ (G3123) скорее, ΈΛΌΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. med. (dep.) part. от_ ΑΊΡΈΩ (G138) поднимать; _med._ выбирать, ΣΥΓΚΑΚΟΥΧΕΊΣΘΑΙ _praes. pass. inf. от_ ΣΥΓΚΑΚΈΩ (G4778) страдать от зла вместе, страдать с кем-л....
DISCOURSE: 2326 MOSES’ CHOICE Hebrews 11:24. _By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God...
CHOOSING RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION— Three months after Moses was born, he was exposed in a bed of bulrushes on the river Nile. Pharaoh's daughter coming by, and guessing it to be one of the Hebrew c...
B. _The patriarchal: faith in God plus faith in His promises. Hebrews 11:8-27_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 11:8-27 Hebrews 11:8 By faith Abraham, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place
THE FAITH OF MOSES (Hebrews 11:24-25) "The apostle, as we showed before, takes his instances from the three states of the church under the O.T. The first was that which was constituted in the giving...
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Balancing the best of the world with the worst of religion, he 'chose' the latter, with...
17 That all this is in resurrection is further enforced by the offering of Isaac. Abraham had such confidence in God, that he was ready to slay his son, believing that God would rouse him from the dea...
11:25 choosing (c-1) These are aorists, but in English the present participle is joined to the perfect tense as characterizing the action. 'He refused ... choosing;' 'he refused ... having chosen' wou...
HEROES OF FAITH The Achievements of Faith, illustrated from the annals of Israel, beginning with the patriarchs and coming down to the martyrs. The writer has already mentioned faith as a necessary co...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 11 5 THE BETTER WAY 11:1-13:25 THE WAY OF TRUST AND HOPE 11:1-40 THE MEANING OF *FAITH (TRUST IN GOD) 11:1-3 V1 *Faith, that is, trust...
CHOOSING. — Better, _having chosen._ His act was an expression of his deliberate choice. He joined his people because it was “the people of God.” To stand aloof for the sake of ease and pleasure would...
CHAPTER XII. THE FAITH OF MOSES. "By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents, because they saw he was a goodly child; and they were not afraid of the king's commandment. By...
CHAPTER XIII. A CLOUD OF WITNESSES. "By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, even concerning things to come. By faith Jacob, when he was a-dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph; and worshipped, le...
The writer passes from the patriarchal age to the times of Moses and the Judges. First the faith of the parents of Moses (τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ, in Stephanus' _Thesaur_, several examples are given of the...
MAKING THE FAR-SEEING CHOICE Hebrews 11:23 Faith-we cannot say it too often-is the direct vision of the soul. It doesn't reason, it doesn't ask for evidences, it doesn't seek the corroboration of spi...
Then follows a series of illustrations of the power of faith taken from the history of the Hebrew people. The first is that by faith men know that the ages have been fashioned by the Word of God. Afte...
By faith Moses.... chose rather to be afflicted with the people of God, than to be honoured as the son of Pharao's daughter, and to enjoy short sinful pleasures in the court of the king. --- Esteeming...
(20) By faith Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau concerning things to come. (21) By faith Jacob, when he was a dying, blessed both the sons of Joseph; and worshiped, leaning upon the top of his staff. (22)...
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...
It is not a definition of this principle, that the epistle gives us at the commencement of Chapter 11, but a declaration of its powers and action. Faith realises (gives substance to) that which we hop...
CHOOSING RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD,.... The Israelites, who were God's chosen and peculiar people, and were the true worshippers of him; Moses chose to be with those: the comp...
Πίστει Μωϋσῆς μέγας γενόμενος ἠρνήσατο λέγεσθαι υἰὸς θυγατρὸς Φαραώ· μᾶλλον ἑλόμενος συγκακουχεῖσθαι τῷ λαῷ τοῦ Θεοῦ, ἥ πρὀσκαιρον ἔχειν ἁμαρτίας ἀπόλαυσιν· μείζονα πλοῦτον ἡγησάμενος τῶν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ θ...
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Ver. 25. _Choosing rather to suffer_] The happiest choice that ever the good man made. It...
HEB. 11:25-26. CHOOSING RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD, THAN TO ENJOY THE PLEASURES OF SIN FOR A SEASON; ESTEEMING THE REPROACH OF CHRIST GREATER RICHES THAN THE TREASURES IN EGYPT...
_By faith Moses_ None in the old world was more signalized by Providence in his birth, education, and actions, than Moses; hence his renown was both then and ever after very great; _when he was come t...
AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD; because he expected in so doing to receive the blessings which God had promised them....
CHOOSING RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD THAN TO ENJOY THE PLEASURES OF SIN FOR A SEASON;...
The example of Moses:...
This chapter in itself forms a complete division of the book of Hebrews. If previously the doctrine has been thoroughly laid down that faith is the principle of all actual relationship with God, now C...
20-31 Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau, concerning things to come. Things present are not the best things; no man knoweth love or hatred by having them or wanting them. Jacob lived by faith, and he died...
CHOOSING RATHER TO SUFFER AFFLICTION WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD: the same faith influenced his will, the cause of his former renunciation; for being in the present fruition of all court favours, and under...
Shepherd of Hermas Similitude Sixth For luxury and deceit have no memories, on account of the folly with which they are clothed; but when punishment and torture cleave to a man for one day, he is pun...
Hebrews 11:25 choosing G138 (G5642) rather G3123 affliction G4778 (G5738) people G2992 God G2316 than G2228 enjoy
FAITH AS REVEALED IN CONNECTION WITH THE LIFE OF MOSES (HEBREWS 11:23). But then after a gap in time arose the one who would begin to solidify the promises. He would establish the nation of Israel an...
‘By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter, choosing rather to share ill treatment with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a seaso...
Hebrews 11:24-28. Mark the successive expressions of his faith. When he was grown up he refused the name and dignity of a member of the royal family, preferring to suffer with the people of God rather...
CHOOSING RATHER (μαλλον ελομενος). "Rather having chosen" (second aorist middle of αιρεω, to take for oneself a position).TO BE ENTREATED WITH (συνκακουχεισθα). Present passive infinitive of the d...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
Hebrews 11:23 Moses. I. Israel is a typical nation. The things which happened to them" are recorded for our instruction and comfort. The things which happened unto them, happen unto us also. We also...
Hebrews 11:24 The Choice of Moses. Consider: I. The choice which Moses made. If we carefully examine this passage we find it to represent one of the most extraordinary acts of deliberate renunciatio...
Hebrews 11:25 I. Note, in the first place, that the pleasures of sin are shortlived. In the expressive symbolism of Scripture they are like water in a broken cistern, which speedily runs out, or like...
Hebrews 11:1. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report._ The names of those who lived in old time are handed down...
This is a very familiar chapter, but it is none the less precious. It is the roll of the heroes of faith. Here you have a list of the men who believed in God, and who therefore did great things. Hebr...
These men, of whom we are now briefly to read, are a company of God's witnesses; and the apostle calls them, in the next chapter, «a cloud of witnesses,» who, from their lofty seats above, are watchin...
In this chapter we read of the wonders of faith; but I have never read a chapter setting forth the wonders of unbelief. Unbelief is barren impotent, a mere negation, a dead and accursed thing; but fai...
First, a definition of faith. Hebrews 11:1. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report. Through faith we understand...
CONTENTS: Superiority of the way of faith. Instances of faith. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Abel, Cain, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sara, Joseph, Moses, Pharaoh's daughter, Rahab, Gideon, Barak,...
Hebrews 11:1. _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for._ Paul uses here the same Greek word as in Hebrews 1:3, that the Son is the express image of the Father's _hypostasis,_ or person. Then fa...
HE PREFERRED. As the son of Pharaoh's daughter, the wealth and pleasure of the palace was his. The Jewish people were slaves and had nothing. But faith made him choose!...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 11:24 MOSES refused the privileges of Egypt, including those of being THE SON OF PHARAOH’S DAUGHTER (Exodus 2:
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 11:23. PROPER CHILD.—Goodly child; unusual for beauty and signs of intelligence; ἀστεῖον, goodly, fair, beautiful (Acts 7:20, “fair to God”). Hebrews 11:24. Re...
EXPOSITION HEBREWS 11:1 NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE _ _OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT SEEN. On the senses in which the word ὑπόστασις (translated "substance") may be used, see unde...
Hebrews, chapter 11: Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1). This is not so much a definition of faith as it is the declaration of what faith d...
1 Peter 1:6; 1 Peter 1:7; 1 Peter 2:10; 1 Peter 4:12; 2 Corinthians
To suffer affliction with [σ υ ν κ α κ ο υ χ ε ι σ θ α ι]. N. T. o, o LXX, o Class. The verb kakoucein to treat ill, ver. 37; ch. 13 3; LXX, 1 Kings 2:26; 1 Kings 11:39. Rend. "to be evil entreated....
THE PLACE OF FAITH Hebrews 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Unbelief is black with the frown of God; faith is regnant with the smile of God. Unbelief closes every channel of blessing; faith opens up the cha...
THE LIFE OF FAITH Hebrews 11:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Faith defined. The eleventh chapter of Hebrews opens with something that is very definite it is a definition of faith. "Now faith is the substan...
MOSES FAITHFUL IN ALL HIS HOUSE Hebrews 11:23 INTRODUCTORY WORDS There are seven things which Moses did, as outlined in Hebrews 11:24, which we want to notice. 1. MOSES REFUSED. The first great ste...
Observe here, 1. The common lot and usual condition of God's people in this world; it is an afflicted state and condition. 2. That wicked men oft-times enjoy pleasures in the ways of sin, whilst good...