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Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:1-6

Hebrews 3:1-6 Christ the Lord, and Moses the Servant. I. To speak of Moses to the Jews was always a very difficult and delicate matter. It is hardly possible for Gentiles to realise or understand the veneration and affection with which the Jews regard Moses, the servant of God. All their religious life, all their thoughts about God, all their practices and observances, all their hopes of the future, everything connected with God, is to them also connected with Moses. Moses was the great apostle... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Hebrews 3:1

DISCOURSE: 2278NAMES AND OFFICES OF CHRISTHebrews 3:1. Holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.OUR Lord possessed, from all eternity, a nature infinitely superior to that of angels [Note: Hebrews 1:3; Hebrews 1:8; Hebrews 1:10.]: yet did he submit to the lowest humiliation for us [Note: Philippians 2:6-7.]. And it is by the knowledge of him, as humbled, that we attain salvation [Note: John 17:8.].The Apostle having... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Hebrews 3:1

partakers companions; the same word trans. "fellows" in Hebrews 1:9. read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:1-19

Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Hebrews the third chapter.Wherefore, holy brethren ( Hebrews 3:1 ),The word wherefore immediately leads us back to that which is immediately preceding, and that is the declaration of the superiority of Jesus over the angels. Because He is superior over the angelic beings being the Son of God.Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus ( Hebrews 3:1 );Here we are called upon... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 3:1-19

Hebrews 3:1-6 . Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, who, as the sons of God, are called to eternal glory, consider the Apostle and Highpriest of our profession, that he unites in his glorious person all the honours of Moses as a prophet, and all the honours of Aaron as a priest, and so far eclipses their glory as the celestial house surpasses the earthly. They were only shadows, he is the substance; they were but servants, he is the Lord, the Son and heir of all.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 3:1

Hebrews 3:1Wherefore, holy brethrenThe heavenly calling“Wherefore” connects generally with chaps, 1., if., where Christ is Apostle (Hebrews 1:1-3) and High Priest Hebrews 2:9, &c.), though immediately with “faithful” (Hebrews 2:17) and the closing words of chap. if. The author had in view this comparison with Moses, and prepared the way for it by using “faithful” in Hebrews 2:17. The author had called believers “sanctified” and “sons” Hebrews 2:11-13); recalling this, and realising what it... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hebrews 3:1

1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; Ver. 1. Holy brethren ] HOLY, because partakers of a calling that is heavenly. 1. Rations fontis,Philippians 3:14-15; Philippians 3:14-15 . Philippians 3:2 . Ratione finis, to the fruition of heavenly privileges in Christ. Consider ] Gr. κατανοησατε . Bend your minds with utmost diligence upon him. The apostle and high priest ] Those two chief offices of... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hebrews 3:1

holy: Colossians 1:22, Colossians 3:12, 1 Thessalonians 5:27, 2 Timothy 1:9, 1 Peter 2:9, 1 Peter 3:5, 2 Peter 1:3-2 Samuel :, Revelation 18:20 partakers: Hebrews 3:14, Romans 11:17, Romans 15:27, 1 Corinthians 9:23, 1 Corinthians 10:17, 2 Corinthians 1:7, Ephesians 3:6, Colossians 1:12, 1 Timothy 6:2, 1 Peter 5:1, 2 Peter 1:4, 1 John 1:3 the heavenly: Romans 1:6, Romans 1:7, Romans 8:28-Amos :, Romans 9:24, 1 Corinthians 1:2, Ephesians 4:1, Ephesians 4:4, Philippians 3:14, 1 Thessalonians... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 3:1

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;The heavenly calling — God calls from heaven, and to heaven, by the gospel.Consider the Apostle — The messenger of God, who pleads the cause of God with us.And High Priest — Who pleads our cause with God. Both are contained in the one word Mediator. He compares Christ, as an Apostle, with Moses; as a Priest, with Aaron. Both these offices, which Moses and Aaron... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 3:1

1. Wherefore In view of the development of Christ as sent from the bosom of the Eternal, (see note Hebrews 1:3,) and emerging on earth as our Apostle and propitiator, thus far portrayed. Holy brethren Nowhere else is the epithet holy thus applied to brethren, although brethren is several times used in this epistle without the epithet. Probably holy is here used slightly in the Old Testament sense of the word, (see note on 1 Corinthians 7:14,) because the writer is about to... read more