Therefore leaving the (a) principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; (1) not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, (a) The first principle of Christian religion, which we call the catechism. (1) Certain principles of a catechism... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) For [it is] (b) impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have (c) tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, (2) He adds a vehemency to his exhortation, and a sharp threatening of the certain destruction that will come to them who fall away from God and h... [ Continue Reading ]
If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they (d) crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put [him] to an open shame. (d) As men that hate Christ, and as though they crucified him again, making a mockery of him to all the world, to their own destruction, as Juli... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: (3) He lays out the former threatening with a comparison.... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. (4) He moderates and calms all that sharpness, expecting better things of those to whom he writes.... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) For God [is] not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. (5) He praises them for their charity, by this encouraging them to go forward, and to hold out to the end.... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises. (6) He shows in these verses that they need to go forward constantly, for their own good: that is, of charity, and patience; and lest any man should object and say that these things are impossibl... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself, (7) Another encouragement, to push them onward because the hope of the inheritance is certain, if we continue to the end, for God has not only promised it, but also promised it with an oath.... [ Continue Reading ]
Saying, Surely (e) blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. (e) I will heap many benefits on you.... [ Continue Reading ]
Wherein God, willing more (f) abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed [it] by an oath: (f) More than was needed, were it not for the wickedness of men who do not believe God, even though he swears.... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) Which [hope] we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil; (8) He compares hope to an anchor because in the same way that an anchor when cast into the bottom of the sea secures the whole ship, so hope also enters even into the very secre... [ Continue Reading ]
(9) Whither the forerunner is for us entered, [even] Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec. (9) He repeats David's words, in which all those comparisons that he mentioned before are signified, as he declares in all the next chapter.... [ Continue Reading ]