Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Hebrews 4:13
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in (i) his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
(i) In God's sight.
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in (i) his sight: but all things [are] naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
(i) In God's sight.
Verse Hebrews 4:13. _NEITHER IS THERE ANY CREATURE THAT IS NOT MANIFEST_] God, from whom this word comes, and by whom it has all its _efficacy_, is infinitely _wise_. He well knew how to construct hi...
NEITHER IS THERE ANY CREATURE THAT IS NOT MANIFEST IN HIS SIGHT - There is no being who is not wholly known to God. All his thoughts, feelings, plans, are distinctly understood. Of the truth of this t...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. What the rest of God is (Hebrews 4:1)_ 2. The power of the Word of God (Hebrews 4:12) Hebrews 4:1 “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into His rest, any on...
HEBREWS 4:1 continues the exposition of Psalms 95. The writer has already dealt with the warning contained therein; now he shows that this very warning implies a promise. In declaring that His rest is...
Let us then be eager to enter into that rest, lest we follow the example of the Israelites and fall into the same kind of disobedience. For the word of God is instinct with life; it is effective; it i...
THE REST WE DARE NOT MISS (Hebrews 4:1-10)...
NEITHER, &C. = And there is not (Greek. _ou)_. created thing. See Romans 8:39. THAT, &C. Literally not manifested. Greek. _aphanes._ Only here. Compare App-106. IN HIS SIGHT. before His eyes. The Di...
_in his sight_ i.e. in the Sight of God, not of "the Word of God." "He seeth all man's goings," Job 34:21. "Thou hast set … our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance," Psalms 90:8; comp. Psalms...
ἘΝΏΠΙΟΝ ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂, i. e. in the Sight of God, not of “the Word of God.” “He seeth all man’s goings,” Job 34:21. “Thou hast set our … secret sins in the light of Thy countenance,” Psalms 90:8; comp. Psal...
CONTINUED EXHORTATION TO EMBRACE THE YET OPEN OFFER OF GOD’S REST...
CH. 4. CONTINUED EXHORTATION TO EMBRACE THE YET OPEN OFFER OF GOD’S REST (1–13). EXHORTATION FOUNDED ON THE HIGH PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST (14–16)...
_GREAT MOTIVATION FOR SERVING GOD -- HEBREWS 4:9-13:_ We must take heed to live our lives by the word of God, or doctrine of Jesus Christ. The gospel will quickly find you out if you are guilty of dis...
ΚΤΊΣΙΣ (G2937) творение, ΑΦΑΝΉΣ (G852) скрытый, не проявленный, ΓΥΜΝΌΣ (G1131) обнаженный, открытый, ΤΕΤΡΑΧΗΛΙΣΜΈΝΑ _perf. pass. part. от_ ΤΡΑΧΗΛΊ ΖΩ (G5136) быть обнаженным, открываться. Это сравн...
DISCOURSE: 2285 GOD SEES OUR INMOST THOUGHTS Hebrews 4:13. _All things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do_. MEN will commit those things in secret, which they would not...
FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK, &C.— "The word of God, which promised to the faithful an entrance into God's rest in David's time, and now to us, is not a thing which died, or was forgotten, as soon as...
NEITHER IS THERE ANY CREATURE, &C.— It has been greatly debated among commentators, whether this and the preceding verse are to be understood of _Christ,_ the divine _Logos,_ or of the gospel and scri...
Exhortation and warnings. Hebrews 4:11-13. _TEXT_ Hebrews 4:11-13 Hebrews 4:11 Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience....
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO JOSHUA. (Hebrews 4:11-16) The verses which are to be before us complete the present section of our Epistle, a section which begins at Hebrews 3:1 and which has two main divisions:...
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. CREATURE - visible or invisible. IN HIS (GOD'S)...
7 The Hebrew of Psa_95:7-11 reads ''as at Meribah" and "the day of Massah", and the passage refers to the twentieth of Numbers. The quotation substitutes their meanings. Meribah is "contention," or "b...
THE SUPREMACY OF CHRIST. The OT. itself testifies to His supremacy as God's Son over its own chief personages: (a) first the angels, through whom the Jews believed that creation had been effected and...
JESUS CHRIST, GIVER OR THE PROMISED REST, AND HIGH PRIEST TO BEING MEN TO GOD 1-13. Israel through unbelief failed to enter into the promised rest. The rest, therefore, remains open and a promise of...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 WARNING TO OBEY 3:7-4:2 4V1 The same promise of entering the place of God's rest is still there for us. We should be afraid that some...
IN HIS SIGHT. — Still the proper subject is “the word of God”; but, as explained above, it has assumed the meaning, _God speaking and present in His word._ Touched by this word, every creature “return...
CHAPTER III. FUNDAMENTAL ONENESS OF THE DISPENSATIONS. Hebrews 3:1 - Hebrews 4:13 (R.V.). "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High-priest of our conf...
to Hebrews 4:13. Chapter s 3 and 4 as far as Hebrews 3:13, form one paragraph. The purpose of the writer in this passage, as in the whole Epistle, is to encourage his readers in their allegiance to Ch...
ENTERED BY FAITH AND PRAYER Hebrews 4:11 There is no escape for disobedience and unbelief, because we have to do with the omniscience of God. The conception of Hebrews 4:12 is of a victim appointed f...
The picture of the whole generation who perished in the wilderness is brought to mind, and the question is, What did they lack, and why did they perish? They did not lack the message of "good tidings....
GOD SEES US AS WE ARE Some might think they can deceive God by pretending to be diligent. However, His powerful insight into the depths of man's soul is clearly seen in a full understanding of the nat...
_In his sight, or to the eyes, must signify in the sight of God. (Witham) --- If the word of God in Jesus Christ be so terrible, what will Jesus Christ be himself, when he comes to judge us according...
(12) For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the...
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,...
13._Neither is there any creature, etc. _The conjunction here, as I think, is causal, and may be rendered _for; _for in order to confirm this truth, that whatever is hid in man is discerned and judged...
The apostle goes on to apply this part of Israel's history to those whom he was addressing, laying stress on two points:1st, That Israel had failed of entering into rest, through unbelief; 2nd, That t...
NEITHER IS THERE ANY CREATURE THAT IS NOT MANIFEST IN HIS SIGHT,.... Christ is the Lord God omniscient; there is no creature, in general, rational, or irrational, animate or inanimate, but what are kn...
These next verses contain as new enforcement of the precedent exhortation, taken from the consideration of the means of the event threatened in case of unbelief. Two things are apt to arise in the min...
Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things _are_ naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do. Ver. 13. _Neither is there any creature_] No, not...
HEB. 4:13-14. NEITHER IS THERE ANY CREATURE THAT IS NOT MANIFEST IN HIS SIGHT: BUT ALL THINGS (ARE) NAKED AND OPENED UNTO THE EYES OF HIM WITH WHOM WE HAVE TO DO. SEEING THEN THAT WE HAVE A GREAT HIGH...
_Neither is there any creature_ Especially no human creature; _that is not manifest_ Αφανης, _unapparent; in his sight_ Namely, in the sight of God, whose word is thus powerful; for it is God in whose...
IN HIS SIGHT; the sight of God the author of this word. In order to be saved, men must be Christians in reality as well as in appearance. God sees men as they are, and will treat them according to the...
BOLDNESS IN FAITH IN OUR HIGH PRIEST. The power of God's Word in the face of unbelief:...
NEITHER IS THERE ANY CREATURE THAT IS NOT MANIFEST IN HIS SIGHT; BUT ALL THINGS ARE NAKED AND OPENED UNTO THE EYES OF HIM WITH WHOM WE HAVE TO DO. The exhortation follows naturally from the exposition...
"Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." This admonition is a continuation of Ch. 3. The promise has been left us,...
11-16 Observe the end proposed: rest spiritual and eternal; the rest of grace here, and glory hereafter; in Christ on earth, with Christ in heaven. After due and diligent labour, sweet and satisfying...
OLBGrk; NEITHER IS THERE ANY CREATURE THAT IS NOT MANIFEST IN HIS SIGHT: kai is not only copulative, but rational, showing the ground of the former efficacy of the gospel word, because its Author seet...
Tertullian An Answer to the Jews -God's everywhere-flying precepts (arrows) threatening the exposure[158] Melito the Philosopher -the Divine inspection: because He sees all things. Like that in the...
Hebrews 4:13 there G2076 (G5748) no G2532 G3756 creature G2937 hidden G852 His G846 sight G1799 but...
Hebrews 4:13. The power of this word comes really from Him _whose it is._ More accurately, the Word of God is God Himself speaking. The writer, therefore, naturally turns from the instrument to the au...
Hebrews 4:12-13 give a fresh reason for this warning. FOR THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK (_i.e_ living) AND POWERFUL. But what is ‘the word of God'? The common Patristic interpretation refers it to the Wor...
THAT IS NOT MANIFEST (αφανης). Old adjective (α privative and φαινω, to show), here only in the N.T. God's microscope can lay bare the smallest microbe of doubt and sin.NAKED (γυμνα). Both soul a...
Hebrews 4:12 I. The Word of God judges the Christian below. We are familiar with the Word of God. Like Israel, we possess the treasure in our country, in our families. Do we know that in possessing, r...
Hebrews 4:12 Life a Dialogue. There is a Word of God to us; there is also a word of ours to God. The Divine word and the human. The word which speaks, and the word which answers and makes reply. I....
Hebrews 4:1. _Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest any of you should seem to come short of it._ Not only dread coming short, but dread the very appearance of...
CONTENTS: The better rest for the believer. The perfect work of redemption. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, David. CONCLUSION: The privileges by Christ under the Gospel are far greater than those enjoyed un...
Hebrews 4:1. _Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it._ This caution is repeated from the preseding chapter, but the r...
THERE IS NOTHING. _MacKnight_ sees here a reference to the symbolism of the Jewish _burnt offering,_ where the animal was skinned, ripped open, eviscerated, and its backbone split. This was symbolic t...
_The Word of God is quick and powerful_ THE WORD A SWORD It may be most accurate to interpret this passage as relating both to the Word of God incarnate, and the Word of God inspired. Christ and Hi...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 4:12 The warning continues: faithless disobedience will not go unnoticed. WORD OF GOD. Usually this phrase in Hebrews 1:1 refers to the message
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 4:1 Continuing to use Psalms 95:1, the author focuses on the word “rest.” The section makes most sense if the rest is understood as having begun but still awaiting completion.
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 4:12. WORD OF GOD.—Either (1) the personal Word, the Λόγος; or (2) the revealed word, to which the writer has been appealing; or (3) the spoken word of God, w...
EXPOSITION A REST STILL OFFERED TO CHRISTIANS. HEBREWS 4:1 LET US FEAR, THEREFORE, LEST, A PROMISE BEING STILL LEFT OF ENTERING INTO HIS REST, ANY ONE OF YOU SHOULD SEEM TO HAVE COME SHORT. This ve...
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it (Hebrews 4:1). As you look at your own heart tonight, is it at rest? Have you...
1 Chronicles 28:9; 1 Corinthians 4:5; 1 Samuel 16:7; 2 Chronicles 6:30;...
LET US Hebrews 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Every book in the Bible is correlated with every other book. The Bible is a perfect whole. No book can be taken away without its unity and continuity being bro...
In his sight — It is God whose word is thus "powerful:" it is God in whose sight every creature is manifest; and of this his word, working on the conscience, gives the fullest conviction. But all thin...
There is not any one place of scripture,. think, which more fully informs us of the perfect and exact knowledge of Almighty God, as to all persons and things, than this before us. Observe, 1. The obj...