La naturaleza general de toda esta epístola, como en la parte anterior de nuestra exposición fue declarada, es parenetical. Y por lo tanto, las doctrinas propuestas e insistidas en ella se mejoran constantemente para presionar y hacer cumplir las exhortaciones pretendidas; como tal es el fin y el us... [ Seguir leyendo ]
Hebreos 3:1. ῞Οθεν, ἀδελφοὶ ἅγιοι, κλήσεως ἐπουρανίου μέτοχοι, κατανοήσατε τὸν ἀπόστολον καὶ ἀρχιερέα τῆς ὁμολογίας ἡμῶν, Χριστὸν ᾿Ιησοῦν· πιστὸν ὄντα τῷ ποιήσαντι αὐτὸν, ὠς καὶ Μωυσῆς ἐν ὅλῳ τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ. The Vulgar leaves out Χριστόν, “Christ;” all ancient copies and translations beside retain i... [ Seguir leyendo ]
The apostle having made his entrance into the comparison designed by him between Christ and Moses, and showed in general wherein they were alike, and as to his purpose equal (which that those who are compared together should be in some things is necessary), he proceeds to evince the prelation of Chr... [ Seguir leyendo ]
HAVING demonstrated the pre-eminence of the Lord Christ above Moses in their respective ministries about the house of God, the apostle, according unto his design and method, proceeds unto the application of the truth he had evinced, in an exhortation unto stability and constancy in faith and obedien... [ Seguir leyendo ]
In the close of this chapter the apostle makes application of the example which he had produced out of the psalmist unto his present purpose; namely, to dehort the Hebrews from that sin which in them would answer unto the unbelief and disobedience of their forefathers, from the pernicious and destru... [ Seguir leyendo ]
There is some difficulty about these verses, namely, whether they appertain unto and depend upon the discourse foregoing, or whether they are the beginning of another, on which the exhortation in the first verse of the next chapter doth depend. Chrysostom, with the Greeks that follow him, as Theophy... [ Seguir leyendo ]