Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 10:32
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;Enlightened — With the knowledge of God and of his truth. read more
But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;Enlightened — With the knowledge of God and of his truth. read more
For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.For ye sympathized with all your suffering brethren, and with me in particular; and received joyfully the loss of your own goods. read more
22. Having so magnificent an access as stated in 19-21, our author now, in the following three verses, exhorts us with a let us thrice presented: namely, let us draw near, let us hold fast, and let us consider one another. The first regards our free access to God; the second, our firmness in profession; the third, our use of the communion of saints in maintaining the previous two, namely, our gracious access and our firm profession. The first let us is, let us gladly draw... read more
23. Let us hold fast As we have a new and immeasurably superior access to the holiest, let us firmly maintain the confession, (rather, than, as in our translation, profession.) There must be no relapse to the old. For Encouraging assurance, if we are firm on our part there will be no failure on God’s part. It is God who has promised, and he will be faithful. read more
24. The third let us; it embraces our availing ourselves of Christian fellowship in maintaining our Christian fidelity. Consider one another Realize each other’s value for mutual incitement unto love as a Christian affection, and good works as a Christian conduct. So far our author touches upon the mutual Christian aids between individuals. Every man may in personal intercourse encourage, inspire, and strengthen his fellow. Next verse specifies the collective aids. read more
25. Assembling of yourselves together This plainly refers to voluntary meetings of Christians for mutual Christian inspiration and encouragement. Assuming, as we here do, that Jerusalem is the city to whose Christian people this epistle was addressed, not long before the destruction by Titus, we catch a brief glimpse of the interior of city and Church. The Greek word here, επισυναγωγη , episynagogue, can hardly be other than a Christian synagogue, Note, James 2:2. The assemblies remind... read more
26. If we sin The word sin here is to be taken as in a continuous or general present tense. The meaning is, If from saints we become sinners; that is, by total apostasy. See note on 1 John 3:10. Wilfully Against clear light and knowledge, usually preceded by forsaking the assembly. How flagrant and conscious the return to sin is here supposed, is indicated by the fearful language of Hebrews 10:29. Knowledge Says Lunemann, “This επιγνωσις of the absolute truth embraces, in... read more
27. But there remains, persistently and forever, a certain fearful looking for. The word certain implies a peculiar but indescribable awfulness in the looking for. Fearful Not only terrible to us contemplating it, but including fear in the apostate’s heart. So fully has divine truth once pervaded his conscience that he can never be truly at ease. He may become the greatest, but he will seldom be the tranquillest, infidel in town. Looking for A term suggested, perhaps, by the... read more
28. An argument from less, Moses, to greater, the Son. Despised Nullified, reduced it to nothing. The illustration is taken from Deuteronomy 17:2-7, where it is enacted that if an Israelite “hath gone and served other gods,” as “sun or moon,” Israel should “stone them with stones,” as apostates from Jehovah, “at the mouth of two or three witnesses.” Such an apostate has not only sinned, but has wholly rejected Moses’s law. Without mercy There was no expiating sacrifice, no executive... read more
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 10:31
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.To fall into the hands — Of his avenging justice. read more