Hebrews 4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 4:13

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 there can be no doubt. The “design” of the remark here is, to guard those to whom the apostle was writing from self-deception - since they could conceal nothing from God.All things are naked - Exposed; uncovered. There is nothing that can be concealed from God; Psalms 139:11-12.“The veil of night is... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 4:14

Seeing then that we have a great high priest - The apostle here resumes the subject which had been slightly hinted at in Hebrews 2:17; Hebrews 3:1, and pursues it to the end of Hebrews 10:0. The “object” is to show that Christians have a great High Priest as really as the Jews had; to show wherein he surpassed the Levitical priesthood; to show how all that was said of the Aaronic priesthood, and all the types pertaining to that priesthood, were fulfilled in the Lord Jesus; and to state and... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 4:15

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched - Our High Priest is not cold and unfeeling. That is, we have one who is abundantly qualified to sympathize with us in our afflictions, and to whom, therefore, we may look for aid and support in trials. Had we a high priest who was cold and heartless; who simply performed the external duties of his office without entering into the sympathies of those who came to seek for pardon; who had never experienced any trials, and who felt himself... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 4:16

Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace - “The throne of grace!” What a beautiful expression. A throne is the seat of a sovereign; a throne of grace is designed to represent a sovereign seated to dispense mercy and pardon. The illustration or comparison here may have been derived from the temple service. In that service God is represented as seated in the most holy place on the mercy seat. The high priest approaches that seat or throne of the divine majesty with the blood of the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 4

A.M. 4068. A.D. 64. Here, (1,) The apostle inculcates on professing Christians an holy fear and care to prevent their coming short of the heavenly rest through unbelief, Hebrews 4:1 , Hebrews 4:2 . (2,) Shows that the rest into which those enter on earth that believe the gospel, and the rest of heaven, are more excellent than that of Canaan, Hebrews 4:3-10 . (3,) By the most awakening and encouraging arguments he excites men to faith and hope in their approaches to God, Hebrews... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 4:1-2

Hebrews 4:1-2. In this chapter, which is of the same nature with the foregoing, the apostle proceeds with his exhortation to the Hebrews, and all professing Christians, to faith, obedience, and perseverance; and enforces it by a most apposite and striking instance in the punishment which befel the Israelites, those ancient professors of the true religion, who were guilty of sins contrary to those duties. And the example, as has been often observed, was peculiarly suitable, taken from their... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 4:3

Hebrews 4:3. For we who have believed Or, who believe, namely, in Christ, and the promises of rest made in the gospel, and are diligent in the use of the means appointed in order to the attainment of it; do enter into rest Are at present made partakers of the rest promised by Jesus to the weary and heavy-laden that come to, and learn of him, Matthew 11:28-29: the rest implied in peace with God, peace of conscience, tranquillity of mind, the love of God and of all mankind shed abroad... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 4:4-8

Hebrews 4:4-8. For he spake in a certain place Namely, Genesis 2:2; Exodus 31:17; on this wise, God did rest, &c. These words the apostle quotes, because they show that the seventh-day rest is fitly called God’s rest, and that the seventh-day rest was observed from the creation of the world. “God’s ceasing from his works of creation is called his resting from all his works, because, according to our way of conceiving things, he had exerted an infinite force in creating the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 4:9

Hebrews 4:9. There remaineth therefore a rest, &c. Since neither of the two former rests is intended by David, and there was no new rest for the people to enter into in the days of David, and the psalm wherein these words are recorded is acknowledged to be prophetical of the days of the Messiah, it unavoidably follows that there is such a rest remaining; and not only a spiritual rest, in the peace and love of God, and in the enjoyment of communion with him entered into by believing in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 4:10

Hebrews 4:10. For that rest of which we were speaking, may properly be called a sabbatical rest, or the celebration of a sabbath; for he that hath entered into this his final and complete rest, hath ceased from his own works From all his labours and toils; as God did from his In that first seventh- day, which, in commemoration of it, was appointed to be kept holy in all future ages. Probably God appointed men to rest on the seventh day, not only in commemoration of his having... read more

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 4:13

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 4:14

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 4:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 4:16

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 4:1-2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 4:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 4:4-8

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 4:9

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 4:10

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