Verse 11
11. For Reason for this becomingness of Jesus sufferings; based upon the need of his identification with his brethren.
They who are sanctified Are being sanctified; the present tense of the Greek participle implying a now continuous process, carried on unto the final glorification. Hence Christians are all, more or less perfectly, “saints.” According to Hebrews 10:10; Hebrews 10:14, this is wrought through the efficacy of Christ’s death. But the Greek word for sanctify, here, should not therefore be rendered (as by Stuart and others) expiate.
All of one The English, here, would suggest race, or nature, to be added; but the Greek word for one is masculine, and requires father, or God. This brings us to the same essential meaning as lineage, or race. Jesus is a true man, in order that as man brought sin and death, so a man should bring holiness and life. And still more, by being man he is brother with us, enabled by his humanity to sympathize with us, and by his divinity to so rise as that we may be raised as one with him to the heights of glory.
Not ashamed For it is by a most wonderful and divine condescension that the divine Son becomes with us a human son.
Brethren Thereby we become brother to the God-man.
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