Hebrews 10:32-39 NIV

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:32

But call to remembrance - It appears from this, and indeed from some parts of the Gospel history, that the first believers in Judea were greatly persecuted; our Lord's crucifixion, Stephen's martyrdom, the persecution that arose after the death of Stephen, Acts 8:1 , Herod's persecution, Acts 12:1 , in which James was killed, and the various persecutions of St. Paul, sufficiently show that this disposition was predominant among that bad people. A great fight of afflictions - Πολλην... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:33

Ye were made a gazing-stock - Θεατριζομενοι· Ye were exhibited as wild beasts and other shows at the theatres. See the note on 1 Corinthians 4:9 , where all this is illustrated. Companions of them that were so used - It appears, from 1 Thessalonians 2:14 , 1 Thessalonians 2:15 , that the Churches of God in Judea were greatly persecuted, and that they believed with courage and constancy in their persecutions. When any victim of persecuting rage was marked out, the rest were prompt... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:34

Ye had compassion of me in my bonds - Συνεπαθησατε· Ye suffered with me, ye sympathized with me, when bound for the testimony of Jesus. This probably refers to the sympathy they showed towards him, and the help they afforded him, during his long imprisonment in Caesarea and Jerusalem. But instead of τοις δεσμοις μου , my bonds, τοις δεσμιοις , the prisoners, is the reading of AD, and several others, both the Syriac, the Arabic of Erpen, the Coptic, Armenian, Vulgate, some of the Itala,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:35

Cast not away therefore your confidence - Την παρῥησιαν ὑμων· Your liberty of access to God; your title and right to approach his throne; your birthright as his sons and daughters; and the clear evidence you have of his favor, which, if you be not steady and faithful, you must lose. Do not throw it away, μη αποβαλητε· neither men nor devils can take it from you, and God will never deprive you of it if you continue faithful. There is a reference here to cowardly soldiers, who throw away... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:36

Ye have need of patience - Having so great a fight of sufferings to pass through, and they of so long continuance. God furnishes the grace; you must exercise it. The grace or principle of patience comes from God; the use and exercise of that grace is of yourselves. Here ye must be workers together with God. Patience and perseverance are nearly the same. Have done the will of God - By keeping the faith, and patiently suffering for it. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:37

For yet a little while - Ετι γαρ μικρον ὁσον· For yet a very little time. In a very short space of time the Messiah will come, and execute judgment upon your rebellious country. This is determined, because they have filled up the measure of their iniquity, and their destruction slumbereth not. The apostle seems to refer to Habakkuk 2:3 , Habakkuk 2:4 , and accommodates the words to his own purpose. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:38

Now the just shall live by faith - Ὁ δε δικαιος εκ πιστεως ζησεται· But the just by faith, i.e. he who is justified by faith, shall live - shall be preserved when this overflowing scourge shall come. See this meaning of the phrase vindicated, Romans 1:17 . And it is evident, both from this text, and Galatians 3:11 , that it is in this sense that the apostle uses it. But if any man draw back - Και εαν ὑποστειληται· But if he draw back; he, the man who is justified by faith; for... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:39

But we are not of them who draw back - Ουκ εσμεν ὑποστολης - αλλα πιστεως· "We are not the cowards, but the courageous." I have no doubt of this being the meaning of the apostle, and the form of speech requires such a translation; it occurs more than once in the New Testament. So, Galatians 3:7 ; : Οἱ εκ πιστεως , they who are of the faith, rather the faithful, the believers; Romans 3:26 ; : Ὁ εκ πιστεως , the believer; Romans 2:8 ; : Οἱ εξ εριθειας , the contentious; in... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:32

Verse 32 32.But call to remembrance, etc. In order to stimulate them, and to rouse their alacrity to go forward, he reminds them of the evidences of piety which they had previously manifested; for it is a shameful thing to begin well, and to faint in the middle of our course, and still more shameful to retrograde after having made great progress. The remembrance then of past warfare, if it had been carried on faithfully and diligently under the banner of Christ, is at length useful to us, not... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:33

Verse 33 33.Partly, whilst ye were made, etc. We see who they were whom he addresses, even those whose faith had been proved by no common trials, and yet he refrains not from exhorting them to greater things. Let no man therefore deceive himself by self-flattery as though he had reached the goal, or had no need of incentives from others. Now he says, that they had been made gazingstocks both by reproaches and afflictions, or exposed to public shame by reproaches and distresses, as though they... read more

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:32

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:33

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:34

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:35

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:36

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:37

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:38

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:39

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:32

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:33

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