Hebrews 12:3

3. ADMONITORY. Review your past history as of cheerful and hopeful, yet fearful, endurance, Hebrews 12:3-17.

3. For consider him Our author pauses to hold the suffering phase of the victorious Exemplar before their mind’s eye steadily. Think of his old-time endurances, and that will explain and lighten your own. His Father, permissively, exposed him to trials; so then realize that your trials are the dealings of a Father.

We may lose the connexion here by not keeping in mind that the chastisements of 4-13 all refer primarily to the persecutions the Hebrews had to endure from their unbelieving adversaries. Not that the specific acts of persecution were preordained of God; but the endurance of trials is part of our probation, and it is a cheering explanation to interpret every infliction as a divine discipline.

Endured such contradiction Contradiction, a pregnant term, including all that the sinners referred to inflicted.

Lest ye be wearied In order that ye may not falter and apostatize.

Faint Exhausted by the wearing contest; forgetting your Exemplar, and losing sight of the final exaltation.