Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Hebrews 6:14
Saying, Surely (e) blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
(e) I will heap many benefits on you.
Saying, Surely (e) blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
(e) I will heap many benefits on you.
Verse 14. _SAYING, SURELY BLESSING I WILL BLESS THEE_] I will continue to bless thee. _MULTIPLYING I WILL MULTIPLY THEE._] I will continue to increase thy posterity. In the most literal manner God c...
SAYING, SURELY BLESSING I WILL BLESS THEE - That is, I will certainly bless thee. The phrase is a Hebrew mode of expression, to denote emphasis or certainty - indicated by the repetition of a word; co...
CHAPTER 6 _ 1. Return to Judaism the crucifixion of the Son of God afresh (Hebrews 6:1)_ 2. Persuaded of better things: Comfort and hope (Hebrews 6:9) Hebrews 6:1 A solemn warning follows, addresse...
The mention of God's promise suggests the thought that it is absolutely sure, so that we may hold to it without misgiving. When God made His promise to Abraham He sealed it by an oath. Just as in huma...
When God made his promise to Abraham, since he was not able to swear by anyone greater, he swore by himself. "Certainly, he said, "I will bless you and I will multiply you." When Abraham had thus exer...
THE NECESSITY OF PROGRESS (Hebrews 6:1-3)...
SURELY. Greek. _e_ (the texts read _ei)men_. Only here. BLESSING, &C. Quoted from the Septuagint of Genesis 22:17....
_blessing I will bless thee_ The repetition represents the emphasis of the Hebrew, which expresses a superlative by repeating the word twice. _I will multiply thee_ In the Heb. and LXX. we have "I wi...
ΕἸ ΜΉΝ אABDE. MSS. vary between ἧ μὴν (the classical affirmation), and εἰ μή. This _formula jurandi_ is used in the LXX. (Ezekiel 33:27, &c.), and perhaps comes from the Hebraic εἰ μή. 14. ΕἸ ΜΉΝ. “_I...
FOUNDED ON THE IMMUTABILITY OF GOD’S PROMISES...
A SURE PROMISE FROM GOD -- HEBREWS 6:11-15 : When Christianity is persevered, hope can be obtained. Those who faithfully serve God will attain the full assurance of hope in the end. No one can have th...
ΛΈΓΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить. Используется как границы цитаты перед прямой речью, ΜΉΝ (G3376) конечно, ΕΎΛΟΓΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΕΎΛΟΓΈΩ (G2127) благословлять, ΕΎΛΟΓΉΣΩ _...
FOR WHEN GOD MADE PROMISE, &C.— "And a glorious confirmation you will find these promises to be, when you come to compare one spiritual object with another, and are better skilled in the method of int...
_The example of Abraham. Hebrews 6:13-20_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 6:13-20 Hebrews 6:13 For when God made promise to Abraham, since He could swear by none greater, He sware by Himself,...
CHRISTIAN PERSEVERANCE (Hebrews 6:12-15) Two exhortations were set before the Hebrew Christians in the 6th chapter of this epistle· First, they were bidden to turn their backs upon Judaism and go on...
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. MULTIPLYING ... MULTIPLY - Hebraism for superabundantly multiply. THEE. The increase of Abraham's seed is virtual...
11 Brotherly kindness manifested in the service of the saints is several times commended in t his epistle (Heb_10:34, Heb_13:1), and will be rewarded in accord with the promise of Mat_10:40-42. 12 "T...
6:14 thee; (d-13) See Genesis 22:17 ....
WARNING AND ENCOURAGEMENT 1. Leaving.. let us go on] RV 'let us cease to speak of.. and press on.' The words are either an exhortation to the readers to advance beyond the elementary stage of Christia...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 6 JESUS IS SUPERIOR IN PROMISES 6:1-20 GROW AS CHRISTIANS *FAITH 6:1-3 V1-2 So, let us leave behind the elementary teaching about Christ...
SAYING. — The words of the oath itself, “By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord” (Genesis 22:16), are not repeated, because they are almost identical with the writer’s own words introducing the citati...
CHAPTER V. THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF RENEWAL. "Of Whom we have many things to say, and hard of interpretation, seeing ye are become dull of hearing. For when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers...
CHAPTER VI. THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF FAILURE. "But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak: for God is not unrighteous to forget your wo...
The oath runs εἰ μὴν εὐλογῶν εὐλογήσω σε.… “Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.” “Sentences which denote assurance … are in classical Greek introduced by ἦ μήν, wh...
Reasons for diligently cultivating hope and exercising patience, thus becoming imitators of those who have patiently waited for the fulfilment of the promises, the reasons being that God has made the...
“THE HOPE SET BEFORE US” Hebrews 6:9 The keynote of this passage is _patient continuance_. We should seek not only faith but its accompaniments. It is not enough to manifest faith, hope and love, bu...
This chapter consists of the third appeal and warning. The appeal is that they should leave the first principles and press on to perfection. The things referred to were Jewish, and all have spiritual...
THE EXAMPLE OF ABRAHAM Abraham had relied on the promise of God who swore by Himself (Genesis 22:15-18). God had promised to greatly bless and multiply Abraham. Lightfoot points out that Abraham was s...
(13) For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he swore by himself, (14) Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. (15) And so,...
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,...
Now the Spirit will not stop at this point with Christians, but will go on to that full revelation of His glory which belongs to them that are of full age and indeed forms us for that state. We easily...
SAYING, SURELY BLESSING I WILL BLESS THEE,.... Which is expressive of the certainty of the blessings; the reality and substantiality of them; the abundance of them, and the continuance of the same: an...
In the close of the foregoing verse the apostle expresseth the end of all his exhortations, what they tended unto, and what would be the advantage of all that complied with them in faith and obedience...
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee. Ver. 14. _Bleasing I will bless thee_] Now he whom God blesseth shall be blessed, as Isaac said of Jacob,Genesis 27:33...
HEB. 6:14-15. SAYING, SURELY BLESSING I WILL BLESS THEE, AND MULTIPLYING I WILL MULTIPLY THEE. AND SO, AFTER HE HAD PATIENTLY ENDURED, HE OBTAINED THE PROMISE. _ Blank Bible: _ _ obtained the promi...
_For when God made promise_, &c. As if he had said, And it appears that this is the way to partake of mercies promised, because Abraham was obliged to exercise faith and long-suffering before he obtai...
The certainty of God's promises:...
SAYING, SURELY BLESSING I WILL BLESS THEE, AND MULTIPLYING I WILL MULTIPLY THEE....
Verse 1 of this chapter is not properly translated in the Authorized Version, and it should be evident that we must never leave "the principles of the doctrine of Christ." Divine principles and sound...
11-20 The hope here meant, is a sure looking for good things promised, through those promises, with love, desire, and valuing of them. Hope has its degrees, as faith also. The promise of blessedness...
OLBHeb; Here is laid down the form and matter of God's oath: the form, in GENESIS 22:16, is implied in the particle yk in this text well rendered _surely,_ HEBREWS 3:11. The other defective expression...
Hebrews 6:14 saying G3004 (G5723) Surely G2229 G3375 blessing G2127 (G5723) bless G2127 (G5692) you...
Hebrews 6:14. SAYING, SURELY. The Hebrew of ‘surely' is equivalent to ‘ I SWEAR.' The unfamiliarity to the Greek translators of the Hebrew idiom for swearing has created various renderings of the Hebr...
CHAP. Hebrews 5:11 to Hebrews 6:20. The writer, knowing how unprepared his readers were to admit that the Aaronic priesthood was inferior to that of Melchisedec and to that of Christ (who was the anti...
Hebrews 6:13-20. The writer has sought to encourage the Hebrews by appealing to the Divine ‘righteousness.' He who _graciously_ made them fruitful would _righteously_ treat them according to their fru...
SURELY (ε μην). By itacism for η μην (Deissmann, _Bible Studies_, p. 205). The quotation is from Genesis 22:16. (the promise renewed to Abraham with an oath after offering of Isaac).BLESSING (ευλ...
Hebrews 6:4 Exhortation. I. The danger of apostasy. The Hebrews had become lukewarm, negligent and inert; the Gospel, once clearly seen and dearly loved by them, had become to them dim and vague; the...
In the previous chapter, Paul was writing to some who ought to have been teachers, but who needed still to be taught the first principles of the gospel; they were such babes in grace that they needed...
CONTENTS: Warning against mixture of law and grace. Danger of tasting the Spirit's work in grace and then going back to ceremonies. CHARACTERS: Christ, God, Holy Spirit, Abraham, Melchisedec. CONCLUS...
Hebrews 6:1. _Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ,_ as a builder leaves the foundation to complete the superstructure, _let us go on to perfection,_ which he calls here, _telei...
HE SAID. Genesis 22:17. I WILL BLESS YOU by accepting your faith as righteousness (Romans 4:22). AND GIVE YOU MANY DESCENDANTS who will be your spiritual children and also be accepted as righteous thr...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 6:13 PROMISE TO ABRAHAM. God’s promises to Abraham include those in Genesis 12:1;...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 6:13.—The connection of thought may be thus given: “Follow the godly, I say. Take one such for an instance. Abraham. See how graciously God met his steadfast go...
EXPOSITION HEBREWS 6:1, HEBREWS 6:2 WHEREFORE (since it is so incumbent on us to advance out of the state of milk-fed infants), LEAVING THE PRINCIPLES OF THE DOCTRINE OF CHRIST, LET US PRESS ON UNTO...
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, [that is the primaries, the word at the beginning of the gospel of Christ] let us go on to maturity; not laying again the foundation of repe...
Deuteronomy 1:10; Exodus 32:13; Genesis 17:2; Genesis 48:4; Nehemiah
Surely blessing I will bless thee [ε ι μ η ν ε υ λ ο γ ω ν ε υ λ ο γ η σ ω σ ε]. Ei mhn as a formula of swearing N. T. o. In LXX, see Numbers 14:23; Numbers 14:28; Numbers 14:35;...
Genesis 22:17....