"The Four 'Lets' of the Fourth Chapter of Hebrews," by Thomas T. Torrance (handwritten and typescript drafts, with article published in the Bible League Quarterly, no. 14. We have been looking at the great men of the Bible, and what made them great. Special Collections. The Epistle to the Hebrews (abbr. A.E.W. the word preached--literally, "the word of hearing": the word heard by them. (Q) 13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, said, … Matthew 22:43 CHAPTER 4. “Now, we’ve come to an epistle that many of you have already discovered is one of the most spiritual epistles that are in the entire Word of God. as he said--God's saying that unbelief excludes from entrance implies that belief gains an entrance into the rest. Seeing then--Having, therefore; resuming Hebrews 2:17 . Let us . Compare Matthew 26:38 , "watch with me": showing His desire in the days of His flesh for the sympathy of those whom He loved: so He now gives His suffering people His sympathy. Hebrews chapter 11 dives deeply into the writer's application of all the information given so far. Pleading our High Priest Jesus' meritorious death, we shall always find God on a throne of grace. intents--rather, "conceptions" [CRELLIUS]; "ideas" [ALFORD]. If the Greek "aneu" had been used, sin would have been regarded as the object absent from Christ the subject; but choris here implies that Christ, the subject, is regarded as separated from sin the object [TITTMANN]. 9. therefore--because God "speaks of another day" remaineth--still to be realized hereafter by the "some (who) must enter therein" ( Hebrews 4:6 ), that is, "the people of God," the true Israel who shall enter into God's rest ("My rest," Hebrews 4:3 ). Hebrews Chapter 4 Continued. Gain a concise, fundamental grasp of what the Bible is all about with our new, S Mk 4:14; Lk 5:1; 11:28; Jn 10:35; Ac 12:24; 1Th 2:13; 2Ti 2:9; 1Pe 1:23; 1Jn 2:14; Rev 1:2, 9, Ps 33:13-15; Pr 5:21; Jer 16:17; 23:24; Da 2:22, NIV, The Story: The Bible as One Continuing Story of God and His People, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Acts, Comfort Print, NIV, Beautiful Word Bible Journal, Romans, Comfort Print, NIV, Quest Study Bible, Comfort Print: The Only Q and A Study Bible, NIV, Story of Jesus: Experience the Life of Jesus as One Seamless Story. THE FIRST WARNING - Hebrews 2:1-4 The first of the five warnings of Hebrews is a parenthetical warning on the danger of drifting away. NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Though "great" ( Hebrews 4:14 ), He is not above caring for us; nay, as being in all points one with us as to manhood, sin only excepted, He sympathizes with us in every temptation. Not, as ALFORD explains, "help in time," that is, to-day, while it is yet open to us; the accepted time ( 2 Corinthians 6:2 ). Chapter 10 ended with both a warning and a word of encouragement. Let us . If the rest of God meant Canaan, God would not after their entrance into that land, have spoken (or speak [ALFORD]) of another (future) day of entering the rest. In time there are many Sabbaths, but then there shall be the enjoyment and keeping of a Sabbath-rest: one perfect and eternal. (V) 15 For we do not have a high priest(W) who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are(X)—yet he did not sin. View Thread Report. And around A.D. 64, Emperor Nero persecuted Christians in the vicinity of Rome. The whole of oldest extant manuscript authority supports a different reading, "unmingled as they were (Greek accusative case agreeing with 'them') in faith with its hearers," that is, with its believing, obedient hearers, as Caleb and Joshua. THE PROMISE OF GOD'S REST IS FULLY REALIZED THROUGH CHRIST: LET US STRIVE TO OBTAIN IT BY HIM, OUR SYMPATHIZING HIGH PRIEST. Salem Media Group. 1. Hebrews Chapter 4 Discussion < Back to Hebrews Chapter 4 Enter New Comment . Since so many have fallen, we have cause to fear ( Hebrews 3:17-19 ). but now still, 11. THE PROMISE OF GOD'S REST IS FULLY REALIZED THROUGH CHRIST: LET US STRIVE TO OBTAIN IT BY HIM, OUR SYMPATHIZING HIGH PRIEST. 7. Translate as the Greek order is, "He limited a certain day, 'To-day.'" "God's wisdom, simply manifold, and uniformly multiform, with incomprehensible comprehension, comprehends all things incomprehensible." Neither Moses, nor even Joshua, could bring us into this rest, but Jesus, as our Forerunner, already spiritually, and hereafter in actual presence, body, soul, and spirit, brings His people into the heavenly rest. Still the word of God (the same as that preached, Hebrews 4:2 ), used here in the broadest sense, but with special reference to its judicial power, INCLUDES the Word of God, the sword of the Spirit with double edge, one edge for convicting and converting some ( Hebrews 4:2 ), and the other for condemning and destroying the unbelieving ( Hebrews 4:14 ). The argument is: He who once enters rest, rests from labors; but God's people have not yet rested from them, therefore they have not yet entered the rest, and so it must be still future. [a](B) 3 Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, “So I declared on oath in my anger,    ‘They shall never enter my rest.’”[b](C), And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. . in time of need--Greek, "seasonably." . Or, in ALFORD'S translation of Hebrews 4:10 , "That rest into which Christ has entered before" ( Hebrews 4:14 , Hebrews 6:20 ). Proud member Let us, therefore, earnestly labor to enter the rest lest any fall through practical unbelief ( Hebrews 4:11 ). 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. 5. in this place--In this passage of the Psalm again, it is implied that the rest was even then still future. Please enter your email address associated with your Salem All-Pass account, then click Continue. from his own works--even from those that were good and suitable to the time of doing work. from all his works--Hebrew, Genesis 2:2 , "from all His work." after the same example--ALFORD translates, "fall into the same example." Compiled & Edited by BibleStudyTools Staff, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. should seem to come short of it--Greek, "to have come short of it"; should be found, when the great trial of all shall take place [ALFORD], to have fallen short of attaining the promise. passed into the heavens--rather, "passed through the heavens," namely, those which come between us and God, the aerial heaven, and that above the latter containing the heavenly bodies, the sun, moon, &c. These heavens were the veil which our High Priest passed through into the heaven of heavens, the immediate presence of God, just as the Levitical high priest passed through the veil into the Holy of Holies. The Laughable Stories of Bar-Hebraeus, by Bar-Hebraeus, tr. but--"nay, rather, He was (one) tempted" [ALFORD]. In chapter 2 the author drew an inference (beginning with Therefore [Dia touto]), from Christ’s superiority, arguing that since Christ is greater than the angels, the Hebrews should give earnest heed to what they have been taught about Him lest they drift away from faith in Jesus. Christ "knows what is in man" ( John 2:25 ): so His word reaches as far as to the most intimate and accurate knowledge of man's most hidden parts, feelings, and thoughts, dividing, that is, distinguishing what is spiritual from what is carnal and animal in him, the spirit from the soul: so Proverbs 20:27 . 9 Nelson, The NKJV Study Bible, 1981. 2 For since the message spoken through angels was binding, and every violation and disobedience received its just punishment, 3 how shall we escape if we ignore so great a salvation? The two ideas of "rest" combined, give the perfect view of the heavenly Sabbath. Hebrews 4:1-16 . Here Paul interrupts the quotation by, "In (the Psalm of) David saying after so long a time (after five hundred years' possession of Canaan)," and resumes it by, "as it has been said before (so the Greek oldest manuscript, before, namely, Hebrews 3:7 Hebrews 3:15 ), To-day if ye hear His voice," &c. [ALFORD]. God's rest was a Sabbatism; so also will ours be. 11 Bateman, Four Views, 45. Budge, [1897], full text etext at sacred-texts.com 3. Since so many have fallen, we have cause to fear ( Hebrews 3:17-19). find grace--corresponding to "throne of grace." fall--with the soul, not merely the body, as the rebel Israelites fell ( Hebrews 3:17 ). Compare as to God's creation rest, once for all completed, and rested from. 6. it remaineth--still to be realized. Hebrews 3:7,8 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, … 2 Samuel 23:1,2 Now these be the last words of David. In its first room were the lampstand and the table with its consecrated bread; this was called the Holy Place. Paul's early training, both in the Greek schools of Tarsus and the Hebrew schools at Jerusalem, accounts fully for his acquaintance with Philo's modes of thought, which were sure to be current among learned Jews everywhere, though Philo himself belonged to Alexandria, not Jerusalem. cannot be touched with the feeling of--Greek, "cannot sympathize with our infirmities": our weaknesses, physical and moral (not sin, but liability to its assaults). Clicking on a chapter will show you the text of that chapter of Hebrews in the Bible (King James Version). 16. come--rather as Greek, "approach," "draw near." The Greek is the same as that for "his own" immediately after. What, however, Paul mainly here dwells on in the quotation is that the promised "rest" has not yet been entered into. But, the Hebrews did not think in step logic but in block logic. So there’s a little bit of an overview. 3 months ago. Chapter 9 of the Book of Hebrews Our High Priest in Heaven Additional Notes The Sanctuary . . All rights reserved worldwide. boldly--Greek, "with confidence," or "freedom of speech" ( Ephesians 6:19 ). But the "rest" in this Hebrews 4:9 is the nobler and more exalted (Hebrew) "Sabbath" rest; literally, "cessation": rest from work when finished ( Hebrews 4:4 ), as God rested ( Revelation 16:17 ). which marks the latter to be subordinate). THEREFORE, there must be meant a rest still future, namely, that which "remaineth for the people of God" in heaven, Hebrews 4:3-9 , when they shall rest from their works, as God did from His, Hebrews 4:10 . Hebrews 4:7 “Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.” Those who hear the Word of God have an obligation to receive the Word. This verse indirectly establishes the obligation of the Sabbath still; for the type continues until the antitype supersedes it: so legal sacrifices continued till the great antitypical Sacrifice superseded it, As then the antitypical heavenly Sabbath-rest will not be till Christ, our Gospel Joshua, comes, to usher us into it, the typical earthly Sabbath must continue till then. Copyright © 2020, Bible Study Tools. 3 months ago. help--Compare Hebrews 2:18 , "He is able to succor them that are tempted.". (Y) 16 Let us then approach(Z) God’s throne of grace with confidence,(AA) so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. we which have believed--we who at Christ's coming shall be found to have believed. 2 A tabernacle was set up. The people did nothing militarily to cause the fall of Jericho; they simply followed God’s instructions in faith (2 Cor. As we read … Again--Anew the promise recurs. 4 Therefore, since the promise of entering his rest still stands, let us be careful that none of you be found to have fallen short of it. And the last bit of Hebrews really from chapter 11, 12 & 13 is a call to have faith – to persevere – to believe God will keep his great promises. 3 months ago. like as we are--Greek, "according to (our) similitude." We'll send you an email with steps on how to reset your password. The Word's dividing and far penetrating power has both a punitive and a healing effect. The written Word of God is not the prominent thought here, though the passage is often quoted as if it were. A supply of grace is in store for believers against all exigencies; but they are only supplied with it according as the need arises. "To-day," rightly used, terminates in the rest which, when once obtained, is never lost ( Revelation 3:12 ). and of the joints and marrow--rather, "(reaching even TO) both the joints (so as to divide them) and marrow." They were a people who had had the law for a… The same word which is saving to the faithful ( Hebrews 4:2 ) is destroying to the disobedient ( 2 Corinthians 2:15 2 Corinthians 2:16 ). Fourth, the original audience of Hebrews was persecuted. Betty on Hebrews 4. love your bible . and ye shall find rest (the continuing rest and peace found in daily submitting to Christ's easy yoke; the former answers to "receive mercy" here; the latter, to "find grace," Matthew 11:28 Matthew 11:29 ). without sin--Greek, "choris," "separate from sin" ( Hebrews 7:26 ). For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. He, therefore, experimentally knew what power was needed to overcome temptations. “Jericho” (see Joshua chapter 6). VERSE 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.”. that rest--which is still future and so glorious. J 4 Matthew in Hebrew. So "hear" is used for "obey" in the context, Hebrews 4:7 , "To-day, if ye will hear His voice." 2. gospel preached . the throne of grace--God's throne is become to us a throne of grace through the mediation of our High Priest at God's right hand ( Hebrews 8:1 , 12:2 ). therefore--Seeing such a promise is before us, which we may, like them, fall short of through unbelief. CHAPTER FOUR. The Jews say, "The parents are a sign (warning) to their sons.". A foretaste of the rest Is given in the inward rest which the believer's soul has in Christ. The sense is, "lest any fall into such disobedience (so the Greek for 'unbelief' means) as they gave a sample of" [GROTIUS]. (A copy is found at the New York Public Library.) Though exalted to the highest heavens, He has changed His place, not His nature and office in relation to us, His condition, but not His affection. PHILO similarly speaks of "God passing between the parts of Abraham's sacrifices ( Genesis 15:17 , where, however, it is a 'burning lamp' that passed between the pieces) with His word, which is the cutter of all things: which sword, being sharpened to the utmost keenness, never ceases to divide all sensible things, and even things not perceptible to sense or physically divisible, but perceptible and divisible by the word." Who were they? The work and subsequent rest of God are the archetype to which we should be conformed. Rather, "His rest": the man's rest: that assigned to him by God as his. And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world. 197)., April - June 1949. And He did that by living with the people, enduring the troubles of this human life –and by making the ultimate offering of His own blood on the cross to … mercy--"Compassion," by its derivation (literally, fellow feeling from community of suffering), corresponds to the character of our High Priest "touched with the feeling of our infirmities" ( Hebrews 4:15 ). Rest from weariness, sorrow, and sin; and rest in the completion of God's new creation ( Revelation 21:5 ). Let us . View Thread Report. even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit--that is, reaching through even to the separation of the animal soul, the lower part of man's incorporeal nature, the seat of animal desires, which he has in common with the brutes; compare the same Greek, 1 Corinthians 2:14 , "the natural [animal-souled] man" ( Jude 1:19 ), from the spirit (the higher part of man, receptive of the Spirit of God, and allying him to heavenly beings). The argument, though generally applying to anyone who has entered his rest, probably alludes to Jesus in particular, the antitypical Joshua, who, having entered His rest at the Ascension, has ceased or rested from His work of the new creation, as God on the seventh day rested from the work of physical creation. and I will give you rest (the rest received on first believing). The fourth part of the book contains charts and dictionaries of prefixes, suffixes, words and roots of the Hebrew language to assist the reader with vocabulary definitions and comprehension. Moses, the representative of the law, could not lead Israel into Canaan: the law leads us to Christ, and there its office ceases, as that of Moses on the borders of Canaan: it is Jesus, the antitype of Joshua, who leads us into the heavenly rest. . 14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest(S) who has ascended into heaven,[f](T) Jesus the Son of God,(U) let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. The less prominent place of the "fall" in the Greek favors this. That’s probably true, but as far as being spiritual, there is none that compares to the epistle to the Hebrews. He is capable of sympathizing, for He was at the same time tempted without sin, and yet truly tempted [BENGEL]. 1 We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. hold fast--the opposite of "let slip" ( Hebrews 2:1 ); and "fall away" ( Hebrews 6:6 ). . . Compare "sword of the Spirit . Cancel {{#items}} {{/items}} Hebrews 9. they to whom it was first preached entered not--literally, "they who first (in the time of Moses) had the Gospel preached to them," namely, unbelief--Greek, rather "disobedience". The accusative follows when the sense is "hold fast" [TITTMANN]. Cancel {{#items}} {{/items}} Hebrews 2. ALFORD'S interpretation is clumsy, by which he makes the soul itself, and the spirit itself, to be divided, instead of the soul from the spirit: so also he makes not only the joints to be divided asunder, but the marrow also to be divided (?). 10 Hoppin, The Epistle to the Hebrews, 153. Sebastian Münster revised and completed an imperfect manuscript copy of Shem Tob's Matthew. Evidently "the dividing of the soul from the spirit" answers to the "joints" which the sword, when it reaches unto, divides asunder, as the "spirit" answers to the innermost "marrow." Hebrews 11:30 "By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days." Revelation 19:15 similarly represents the Word's judicial power as a sharp sword going out of Christ's mouth to smite the nations. Beginning at the end of the fourth chapter of Hebrews, the author launches into the High Priesthood of Jesus. (In the oldest manuscripts as in English Version, there is no "both," as there is in the clause "both the joints and . This reaffirms that faith in Hebrews is viewed primarily in terms of pilgrimage. For--justifying and explaining the word "rest," or "Sabbatism," he that is entered--whosoever once enters. Compare "Come unto Me . Related quizzes can be found here: Hebrews Quizzes There are 59 questions on this topic. In A.D. 49, the Roman Emperor Claudius expelled Jews from the city of Rome. Mercy especially refers to the remission and removal of sins; grace, to the saving bestowal of spiritual gifts [ESTIUS]. The word "seem" is a mitigating mode of expression, though not lessening the reality. Hearing alone is of as little value as undigested food in a bad stomach [THOLUCK]. Our Great High Priest Read Hebrews 4:14-16 These verses are among the most significant in the entire book of Hebrews. He is building on what he had just said in chapter 1. Exhortation to Persevere under Spiritual Discipline. The personal Word, to whom some refer the passage, is not here meant: for He is not the sword, but has the sword. Addressing Jews, he by the Spirit sanctions what was true in their current literature, as he similarly did in addressing Gentiles ( Acts 17:28 ). Before we are overwhelmed by the temptation; when we most need it, in temptations and persecutions; such as is suitable to the time, persons, and end designed ( Psalms 104:27 ). The Jews call the future rest "the day which is all Sabbath. 3 Mrs. E. G. White on the Temple ... Christ did not in His answer as recorded in the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew differentiate between the destruction of Jerusalem and the end of the world. some must enter--The denial of entrance to unbelievers is a virtual promise of entrance to those that believe. This is the grouping together of similar ideas together and not in chronological order. . ", 10. piercing--Greek, "coming through." (A) 2 For we also have had the good news proclaimed to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because they did not share the faith of those who obeyed. AS the Greek for "thoughts" refers to the mind and feelings, so that for "intents," or rather "mental conceptions," refers to the intellect. There were two well-known times of persecution for Christians during the first century A.D. that may have impacted Hebrews' original audience, at least indirectly. Hebrews These are all of the chapters of the book of Hebrews . The Greek perfect tense implies that this is our continuous state in relation to God. . . God will not always strive with man. (K) 11 Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will perish by following their example of disobedience.(L). 9. The qualities here attributed to the word of God, and the whole context, show that it is regarded in its JUDICIAL power, whereby it doomed the disobedient Israelites to exclusion from Canaan, and shall exclude unbelieving so-called Christians from the heavenly rest. hath ceased--The Greek aorist is used of indefinite time, "is wont to cease," or rather, "rest": rests. It is Jesus, more than the Old Testament heroes of chapter 11, to whom we are to fix our eyes on for our example of what it means to persevere (12:1-4). 8. fear--not with slavish terror, but godly "fear and trembling" ( Philippians 2:12). Article Images Copyright © 2020 Getty Images unless otherwise indicated. great--as being "the Son of God, higher than the heavens" ( Hebrews 7:26 ): the archetype and antitype of the legal high priest. 12 For the word of God(M) is alive(N) and active. powerful--Greek, "energetic"; not only living, but energetically efficacious. 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