Verse 4
4. Have not yet resisted Rather, (Greek aorist,) ye did not resist; spoken as of a particular time. The most obvious recent time is at the persecution under Ananus, and martyrdom of St. James, two years previously. See our Introduction to the Epistle of James.
Unto blood As Jesus did, and as some of their leaders had, Hebrews 13:7.
Yet Though that may yet come. Taunts, exclusions, loss of property, they had endured; but they were still alive. Even in the days of Stephen. Stephen was, perhaps, the only executed martyr. But this was a later generation of Jerusalem Christians, and though they were victimized by the oppressive hierarchy, they were not slain.
Striving Antagonizing; a palestric term borrowed from the boxing match, as Hebrews 12:1 borrows from the race course.
If Christians would use the same energy for good as sinners do for the bad, what heroic Christians would they often be!
Against sin The iniquity of your unbelieving opponents.
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