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Posted in Bible Study Series on May 14th, 2005
Preface to the Epistle to the Hebrews The Epistle to the Hebrews is a book that comes to us with an unsettled past. We are not told who wrote it or to whom it was written, nor are we sure what language in was written in. Eusebius attributed the Epistle to Paul, as did Clement [...]
Posted in Bible Study Series on Jul 5th, 2006
Heb 2:1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. Bible chapter and verse divisions are works of man and therefore artificial. Some chapter divisions seem to be in exactly the right place. But others, like this one, [...]
Posted in Bible Study Series on Jul 18th, 2010
Hebrews 3:1 Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; The theme of Jesus as our High Priest starts in 2:17. So the wherefore in this verse refers us back to the last two verses in the last chapter. In this case, wherefore means [...]
Posted in Bible Study Series on Jul 18th, 2010
Hebrews 4:1 Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. Put anopther way, the verse says, “We have the promise of entering God’s rest, but we should be concerned that there are those among us that might not [...]
Posted in Bible Study Series on Mar 13th, 2012
Note: the Old Testament spelling, “Melchizedek” is used in the commentary throughout the chapter. Orignally Published 7/18/2010 Heb 5:1 For every high priest taken from among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to God, that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins: The word, ordain, means to officially invest or establish [...]
Posted in Bible Study Series on Mar 13th, 2012
Orignally Published 7/18/2010 Hebrews 6:1-8 Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, (2) Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of [...]
Posted in Bible Study Series on Mar 17th, 2012
Originally Published 7/18/2010 Hebrews 7:1 For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him; Paul1 was teaching about Melchizedek2 back in chapter five, but in verse eleven, he said his readers were “dull of hearing”, lacking spiritual maturity and [...]
Posted in Bible Study Series on Mar 20th, 2012
Originally published 7/18/2010. Hebrews 8:1 Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens; To sum up: Jesus is our High Priest, Who sits at the right Hand of God [...]
Posted in Bible Study Series on Mar 25th, 2012
Originally published 7/18/2010. Hebrews 9:1 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. Review the last verse of chapter 8, Hebrews 8:13, “In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.” The [...]
Posted in Bible Study Series on Jun 5th, 2012
Originally Published 7/18/2010. Heb 10:1 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices which they offered year by year continually make the comers thereunto perfect. Now we come to the finale of what Paul1 started when he spoke of [...]
Posted in Bible Study Series on Jun 10th, 2012
Originally Published 12/05/2010. Heb 11:1 Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. This chapter of Hebrews is probably one of the best known, loved, and preached chapters of the entire Bible. It likely ranks in popularity with Psalm 23, the Shepherd Psalm, Proverbs 31, the Good Wife, [...]
Posted in Bible Studies, Bible Study Series on Jul 21st, 2012
Heb 12:1 Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, Paul1 used the word wherefore, or therefore, connecting this admonition directly [...]
Posted in Bible Studies, Bible Study Series on Aug 12th, 2012
(Heb 13:1) Let brotherly love continue. It is notable that this paragraph (verses 1- 7) is about love, specifically about loving our brethren. The first five commandments were about exalting God. They are: have no other Gods before me, do not make an image and worship it, do not take the Lord’s Name in vain, [...]
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