Hebrews 4
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Chapter 4
| 4:2 | But the word which they heard did not profit them - So far from it, that it increased their damnation. It is then only when it is mixed with faith, that it exerts its saving power. |
| 4:3 | For we only that have believed enter into the rest - The proposition is, There remains a rest for us. This is proved, Hebrews 4:3 - 11, thus: That psalm mentions a rest:yet it does not mean,
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| 4:4 | For, long after he had rested from his works, he speaks again. Genesis 2:2 . |
| 4:5 | In this psalm, of a rest yet to come. |
| 4:7 | After so long a time - It was above four hundred years from the time of Moses and Joshua to David. As it was said before - St. Paul here refers to the text he had just cited. |
| 4:8 | The rest - All the rest which God had promised. |
| 4:9 | Therefore - Since he still speaks of another day, there must remain a farther, even an eternal, rest for the people of God. |
| 4:10 | For they do not yet so rest. Therefore a fuller rest remains for them. |
| 4:11 | Lest any one should fall - Into perdition. |
| 4:12 | For the word of God - Preached, Hebrews 4:2 , and armed with threatenings, Hebrews 4:3 .Is living and powerful - Attended with the power of the living God, and conveying either life or death to the hearers. Sharper than any two - edged sword - Penetrating the heart more than this does the body. Piercing - Quite through, and laying open. The soul and spirit, joints and marrow - The inmost recesses of the mind, which the apostle beautifully and strongly expresses by this heap of figurative words. And is a discerner - Not only of the thoughts, but also of the intentions. |
| 4:13 | In his sight - It is God whose word is thus "powerful:" it is God in whose sight every creature is manifest; and of this his word, working on the conscience, gives the fullest conviction. But all things are naked and opened - Plainly alluding to the sacrifices under the law which were first flayed, and then (as the Greek word literally means) cleft asunder through the neck and backbone; so that everything both without and within was exposed to open view. |
| 4:14 | Having therefore a great high priest - Great indeed, being the eternal Son of God, that is passed through the heavens - As the Jewish high priest passed through the veil into the holy ofholies, carrying with him the blood of the sacrifices, on the yearly day of atonement; so our great high priest went once for all through the visible heavens, with the virtue of his own blood, into the immediate presence God. |
| 4:15 | He sympathizes with us even in our innocent infirmities, wants, weaknesses, miseries, dangers. Yet without sin - And, therefore, is indisputably able to preserve us from it in all our temptations. |
| 4:16 | Let us therefore come boldly - Without any doubt or fear.Unto the throne of God, our reconciled Father, even his throne of grace - Grace erected it, and reigns there, and dispenses all blessings in a way of mere, unmerited favour. |