Hebrews 13:1 - Exposition

Let brotherly love continue. φιλαδελφία does not mean general philanthropy, but the peculiar love of Christians to each other as brethren; "a narrower sphere within the wider sphere of ἀγάπη " (Delitzsch); cf. 1. Peter Hebrews 2:17 , "Honor all men, love the brotherhood;" and 2 Peter 1:7 , where Christians are exhorted to add ἀγάπη to their φιλαδελπία . This grace of φιλαδελφία they had already, and had evinced it by their conduct (cf. Hebrews 6:10 , etc); they are only to take care that it court, me; and let them, among other ways, evince it in hospitality ( 2 Peter 1:2 ), and in sympathy with the afflicted brethren ( 2 Peter 1:3 ).