hebrews 3:1 commentary

Bible Commentary / Produced by TOW Project Amid the various concluding exhortations in Hebrews 13, two have a special relevance for work. He gives the Hebrews a proper caution; the word is, Take heed, blepete —look to it. , “consider,” “bring your mind to bear upon,” “observe so as to see the significance,” as in Luke 12:24, , though it is sometimes, as in Acts 11:6; Acts 27:39, used in its classical sense “perceive”. Get an high idea of him as faithful unto God in everything. Hebrews 3:7-13 Hearts Are Hardened Through Sin. Greek. “Our belief in Christ (compare Matthew 16:16), which sets us apart from non-Christian Jews.”, 1.Wherefore, holy brethren, etc. Want of faith brings want of holiness, and when we abide in the faith we abide in obedience. The considerations alluded to are His superiority not only to the prophets but also to the angels, inasmuch as He was "over all, God blessed for ever." As he had before, by naming him a teacher and a priest, briefly compared him with Moses and Aaron, so he now includes both clauses; for he adorns him with two titles, as he sustains a twofold character in the Church of God. Only here applied to the Lord. As an Apostle, or God’s messenger, he pleads the cause of God with us; and as High-Priest, he pleads our cause with God. Apostle. A Comparison Between Jesus and Moses, The One The Son Over The House, The Other The Servant In The House (Hebrews 3:1-6) ‘For this reason, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, even Jesus.’. до выше его. "Profession" corresponds to God having spoken to us by His Son, as Apostle and High Priest. Hebrews 1:3 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Hebrews 1:3, NIV: "The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven." Ebrard, 'The angel of the covenant came in the name of God before Israel; Moses in the name of Israel before God; 'whereas the high priest came both in the name of God (bearing the name JEHOVAH on his forehead) before Israel, and in the name of Israel (bearing the name of the twelve tribes on his breast) before God (Exodus 28:9-29; Exodus 28:36-38). 1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; 2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. 5–8. (1-2a) Jesus brought a revelation superior to the prophets of old. He is the Son, and the High Priest. Context Summary. The Church has a heavenly calling and a heavenly destiny. Christ is eminently the sent of God. No, God grant we may be of another sort lest he should lift his hand and swear, “They shall not enter into my rest.”. One is hard-pressed to find a verse-by-verse commentary on the Book of Hebrews from a Torah perspective. Keith Simons. Certain of them "kept not their first principality but left their proper habitation" (Jude 6). This unity with His brethren was necessary in order to His being a merciful and faithful High Priest, able to make atonement for their transgressions, and to make intercession for them, through His perfect atonement, which magnifies and makes honorable the law of God. Jesus, our chief priest. Twice over we are warned of this, to avoid hardness of heart. was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? Not that worshipers under Moses were not holy, for they were required to be so ( Leviticus 11:44-45). God, who at various times and in various ways spoke in time past to the fathers by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to us by His Son,. (See 1 Samuel 3:7.) Moses is never called (a word indeed which occurs only once in LXX) though in Exodus 3:10 God says . Moses was a prophet and a teacher, and Aaron was a priest; but the two offices belong to Christ. High Priest— Briefly unfolded in Hebrews 1:14-14, (as Apostle is in Hebrews 1:1-13,) and fully developed in Hebrews 4:14 to Hebrews 10:18. Hebrews 3:1. administrator over the incoming dispensation, ; he is the glorious Messiah. Holy brethren.—United in one brotherhood in virtue of a common sonship (Hebrews 2:10) and of a common brotherhood (Hebrews 2:11) with Jesus, Him “that sanctifieth” (Hebrews 2:11). Hebrews 3:1. “In the word ‘heavenly’ there is struck for the first time, in words at least, an antithesis of great importance in the Epistle, that of this world and heaven, in other words, that of the merely material and transient, and the ideal and abiding. If you think little of your Leader you will live but poor lives. 1 In times past, God spoke in partial and various ways to our ancestors through the prophets; 2 in these last days, he spoke to us through a son, whom he made heir of all things and through whom he created the universe, a. Hebrews 3:1 Context. I left out the “us” because that is inserted by the translators and should not be there. The usual New Testament meaning of this is “fellow Christians,” including both men and women. If then we seek rightly to know him, we must inquire what sort of being he is; yea, he must be clothed with his own power, lest we lay hold on an empty shadow and not on him. Jesus, the Son of God, is greater than Moses, a servant, and He is certainly greater than Elijah.We will do well if we first start with the teachings of Christ and use them to "interpret" the rest. Read Introduction to Hebrews. Whereas Moses was faithful as a servant in this house of God, Christ was faithful as a son set over His Father’s house. 4:1; 2 Thess. And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after; but Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. The frequent use of by our Lord to denote the Father’s mission of the Son authorises the present application of . Believers are also represented as sanctified by the Holy Spirit, of which they are all made partakers, 1 Peter 1:2; 2 Thessalonians 2:13; and as sanctified through the truth, John 17:17. Consider then ’ “the Apostle and high priest of our confession, Jesus,” the single article brackets the two designations and Bengel gives their sense: “ . ), God guarding us against stumbling, and guaranteeing assurance of an "entrance richly supplied ... into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.". What God proclaims we 'confess.'. He shews the awful State of Unbelief! Hebrews 3:1–19 Jesus Greater Than Moses 3 Therefore, holy brothers, 1 you who share in r a heavenly calling, consider Jesus, s the apostle and high priest of our confession, 2 who was faithful to him who appointed him, t just as Moses also was faithful in all God’s 2 house. With such a Leader what manner of people ought we to be? The promise is left to somebody, it does not say to us -- “a promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.” Not come short of it but even seem to do so. Again I say they who do not hold on and hold out are not really partakers of Christ, but we are made partakers of Christ if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end. Each presents a thought complementary of that contained in high priest: “as Apostle Jesus pleads the cause of God with us; as High Priest He pleads our cause with God” (Bengel). First Reading. Hebrews 12:25. Hebrews 3:2-3. Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. omit “Christ”; and it is impossible not to feel how fitly the personal name “Jesus” is used after the later verses of Hebrews 2. Parallel with this argument as to His superiority to angels (Hebrews 1:4) runs that which follows as to His superiority to Moses (Hebrews 3:3): (1) Because as Son over the house He is above the servant in the house (Hebrews 3:5-6), just as the angels were shown to be but ministering spirits (Hebrews 1:14), whereas He is the Son (Hebrews 3:7-8). His, … I won’t ask for a show of hands, but there are probably many of you who made New Year’s resolutions that have already fallen by the wayside. Jesus is not a servant, but the Son of God. Our St. Paul will now so unfold both as to confirm their view of the grandeur of the, for the word embraces all the truths and beings we. But Christ was sent. . “With them that had sinned” says the 17th verse, “to them that believed not” says the 18th verse. ), God grant that none of this congregation may be of that mind, who having named the name of Christ and being known as his people, continue to grieve him one way and another, to put him to the test by their doubts to make him angry by their sins. See Hebrews 1:9. heavenly. Our “Hebrews” here addressed rejoiced in the grandeur of the divine, , the glorious Messiah, but were shrinking almost to apostasy from the degradation of the, , the suffering Messiah. They are also represented as partakers of the heavenly calling. “For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them.” In the old time that gospel which was preached to them was preached to us -- “but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.” God send us this holy mixture of the hearing and the believing, to our hour’s salvation, to his glory. Hebrews 3:13-14. Every once in a while, I am tempted to add a verse or two at the beginning or end of the lectionary reading to fill out its literary context. as the Sent One (Apostle) that He might act on God’s behalf towards His people, and He was appointed High Priest that He might act on behalf of His people towards God. Philippians 3:14, "the high calling;" Greek, 'the calling above. He is greater than both Moses and Aaron. 3 who is the refulgence of his glory,. The true reading is Jesus simply, with special reference to His human nature and His connection with ourselves (see Hebrews 6:20, Hebrews 7:22, Hebrews 11:4; Exodus 3:10-15). He is not the created thing, He is the Creator. It is because of His High Priestly work that they can be His house and enter into rest. He ruled the new dispensation in the character of the Son of Prayer of Manasseh, having been for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor. Temporary Christians are not really Christians. Let the reader keep constantly in mind the leading thought in this book, namely, the superiority of the system of Christ over that of Moses. Because of all he has said about the superiority of Jesus the writer now calls on his ‘holy brothers and sisters’ to consider Him. Greek. In one sense they are at once all equally and completely sanctified, they are all washed in the blood of Christ, all partakers of His Spirit, and all are of the truth which dwelleth in them, which they have of God. Butthey did not become brethren by their holiness; they were born into that relationship regardless of their knowledge of God. Brethren - in Christ the common bond of union. ; especially John 17:18; John 20:21). homologia. Hebrews 3:1 (King James Version) A.F.V A.S.V. Believers are called to follow after holiness, Hebrews 12:14; to mortify their members which are upon the earth, engrossed with earthly objects, Colossians 3:15; and we are assured that all shall be judged according to their works, Revelation 20:12; Galatians 6:7-8; 2 Corinthians 5:10. as Christians; our whole confession of faith; Jesus Christ being the central figure and object in that confession and faith. "Apostle" (lit. The Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.—The best MSS. Heavenly—As coming directly from heaven through our divine Apostle. We ought not therefore to regard this as said only to the Jews, but that it is a general truth addressed to all who desire to come into the kingdom of God; they ought sedulously to attend to Christ, for he is the sole instructor of our faith, and has confirmed it by the sacrifice of himself; for confession, or profession, is to be taken here for faith, as thought he had said, that the faith we profess is vain and of no avail, unless Christ be its object. qui causam nostram apud Deum agit”. ‘Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, even Jesus.’ Having this wonderful privilege they are to fix their thoughts on Jesus as the Apostle and High Priest of the faith they confess. When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. —Rather, over His house. sent by his Father. This Apostle and Priest the Hebrews had acknowledged as their own (of our profession, or confession rather), and it became them to be faithful as confessors to Him they had in this double office accepted. Lesson 9: To Endure, Consider Jesus (Hebrews 3:1-6) Related Media. As Peake remarks: “If this means profession of faith, then ‘the readers already confess Jesus as high priest, and this is not a truth taught them in this Epistle for the first time’.” [Carpzov quotes from Philo (De Somn. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. One Greek article to both: 'Him who is at once Apostle and High Priest'-Apostle, as Ambassador (higher than "angel" - messenger) sent by the Father (John 20:21), pleading the cause of God with us; High Priest, as pleading our cause with God. It was not exclusively directed to them. 1. Moses also was ‘sent’ (Exodus 3:12-15; Exodus 4:28). Habitual contemplation of the character work, teaching, example, death, resurrection, intercession, government, and glory of Christ, is a powerful means of increasing the holiness of his people, and securing their perseverance in his service. Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess (Hebrews 3:1) “Therefore” informs us that our author is linking our text with what has been said earlier. Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers (6) But Christ as a son over his own house. [ Katanoeesate (Greek #2657), often used by Luke, Paul's companion (Luke 12:24; Luke 12:27).]. 2 He was faithful to the one who appointed him, just as Moses was faithful in all God’s house. Commentary on Luke 12:32-40. Remember who it is you follow, with whom you are brethren. It’s easy to begin a diet, but it’s tough to stick to it when tempting foods are set before you! Home » Bible Commentaries » Hebrews. partakers. (Hebrews 2:11) It should bless and encourage us that Jesus calls us His holy brethren. Commentary on Hebrews 3:7-13 (Read Hebrews 3:7-13) Days of temptation are often days of provocation. , “of our confession,” or, whom we, in distinction from men of other faiths, confess; chiefly no doubt in distinction from the non-Christian Jews. Here only is the name Apostle directly given to our Lord; but the thought is present in Hebrews 2:3, and in the many passages in which Jesus designates Himself as the Sent of God, using the word from which Apostle is derived (John 3:17; John 5:36, et al. Jesus was sent from Heaven to earth to carry out a mission of salvation. Compare Ephesians 2:19, ‘fellow-citizens with the holy ones (His people)’. Hebrews 12:25. of them who are "saints" by calling, Rom. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. delegate, messenger, one sent forth with orders) in that He is the One God sent to reveal the Father to humankind (cf. August 11, 2013. Gospel. 2 The superior *apostle 3:1-4:13 Jesus is superior to Moses 3:1-6 Well, if you be holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, “Consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.” Think much of Him. Heavenly calling; by which God called and inclined them to prepare for heaven. But he came from the wilderness not from Heaven, and he was too weak to bear the burden alone so that Aaron became the High Priest. Hebrews 3:1–6 explains how Moses, while a powerful and faithful servant of God, is not the ultimate example for us to follow. My Christian brothers. Hebrews 3:1-4:13. ‘The Apostle.’ Using this word of Jesus may suggest that most of the Apostles were now dead so that he sees Jesus as the Apostle supreme, the heavenly Apostle, Who is, in His heavenly presence, as it were, taking their place. Hebrews 3:4-6. Our “Hebrews” here addressed rejoiced in the grandeur of the divine Apostle, the glorious Messiah, but were shrinking almost to apostasy from the degradation of the High Priest, the suffering Messiah. It is through Him God has spoken (Hebrews 1:1). (Hebrews 3:1) While it is said, today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation. They are exhorted to consider Jesus Christ under the character of the Apostle and High Priest of our profession. Verses 3 through 6 provide the basis for the exhortation. Hebrews 3:12. More Hebrews commentaries. Both these offices, which Moses and Aaron severally bore, he bears together, and far more eminently; of our profession — Of the religion we profess, of which Jesus is called the Apostle, because he was sent by God to reveal it; and the High-Priest, because we receive its blessings through his mediation. Hebrews 3:1. , “wherefore,” if through Jesus God has spoken His final and saving word (Hebrews 1:1), thus becoming the Apostle of God, and if the high priest I speak of is so sympathetic and faithful that for the sake of cleansing the people He became man and suffered, then “consider, etc.”. Holy brethren— Nowhere else is the epithet holy thus applied to brethren, although brethren is several times used in this epistle without the epithet. The usual New Testament meaning of this is “fellow Christians,” including both men and women. The Apostle and High Priest of our confession, even Jesus. From the considerations which he had suggested, the Apostle urges the Hebrews to fix their attention upon Christ Jesus, under the character of the Apostle and High Priest of our profession. —Steadily contemplate and study. 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Zerr's Commentary on Selected Books of the New Testament, Haldane's Exposition on the Epistle to the Romans and Hebrews. "Look about you; be upon your guard against enemies both within and without; be circumspect. You have been long called out of Egypt and brought into the separate place in this wilderness world: be careful to be fit for the Divine indwelling. We here see our dignity: we have a God for the apostle and high priest of our religion. You have had him introductorily presented in his twofold offices in the first two chapters. Here the charge is not to the outside world but to those whom he had called “holy brethren.” He drops the word “holy” for there are some brethren so called who would not deserve that name, and to them he speaks very pointedly, “Take heed, take heed, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief.” And how will that be shown? K.J.V. The calling, here, is used very much in the sense of 1 Corinthians 7:20, to denote the permanent state resulting from permanent obedience to the call, and which has solidified into the correlative profession soon named. God keep us from the very shadow of sin, from the very appearance of evil. delegate, messenger, one sent forth with orders) in that He is the One God sent to reveal the Father to humankind (cf. But as our call is from heaven and to heaven, Christ is sent as a messenger to lead us to the heavenly country. The faith we profess. , a title which, as applicable to Jesus, the writer explains in chaps. Men may be nominally Christ’s, but they are not Christ’s house unless they hold fast to the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. I. Thus was His ministry two-way. “Holy brethren,” made brethren in holiness and made holy in our brotherhood, -- “partakers of the heavenly calling” — called of God from among the worlds. But there is no reason to assign to any other meaning than its usual N.T. To build a house is a trivial matter, but Jesus, verily God, has built/made all that exist (John.1:1-3, 14); He has built the Israelite nation in which Moses was only a caretaker, and He has built His Church which is to share eternity with Him. This expression in Hebrews 3:1 speaks therefore of the Church. Believers are frequently described as called, Romans 8:28; Romans 16:7; 1 Corinthians 1:24; and here described as partakers of the heavenly calling, for it is a call to His kingdom and glory, 1 Thessalonians 2:12. The word thus links Jesus closely with the Father in a unique relationship and firmly establishes Him as God’s chosen. 3 Jesus has been found worthy of greater honor than Moses, just as the builder of a house has greater honor than the house itself. ‘And High Priest.’ As God’s sent One He has become the High Priest of His people, as the writer has already stated in Hebrews 2:17, and will expand on later on (7-10). And to encourage them the more to pursue this study, he reminds them of their calling; as though he had said, “God favored you with no common grace when He called you into his kingdom; (54) it now remains that you have your eyes fixed on Christ as your leader in the way.” (55) For the calling of the godly cannot be otherwise confirmed than by a thorough surrender of themselves to Christ. Used mainly as a Son over his own house guard against enemies both within and without ; be.... 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