Verse 8
8. The last touch that perfects the divinized man to be the Saviour of suffering men is, that he acquires experience from his own suffering.
Though… a Son And, therefore, we might suppose, above all suffering.
Learned he obedience… things… suffered Some of the ancient commentators were scandalized at this statement. “What! was he not obedient before he suffered?” Certainly, but not with a suffering obedience. It was an additional obedience he learned when he suffered; which he could not be conscious of, or exhibit as model to others, without the suffering. The old Greek writers abounded in various forms of the maxim that suffering is a source of wisdom. Trial is both the school and the test of virtue; not only proving, but creating, depth and power of character. The most tried saints on earth will be the highest saints in heaven; and he who will be Lord of them all will have been of all the deepest sufferer.
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