Amen. Here the charge is not to the outside world but to those whom he had called “holy brethren.” He drops the word “holy” for there are some brethren so called who would not deserve that name, and to them he speaks very pointedly, “Take heed, take heed, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief.” And how will that be shown? Hebrews 3:1-6. Parallel with this argument as to His superiority to angels (Hebrews 1:4) runs that which follows as to His superiority to Moses (Hebrews 3:3): (1) Because as Son over the house He is above the servant in the house (Hebrews 3:5-6), just as the angels were shown to be but ministering spirits (Hebrews 1:14), whereas He is the Son (Hebrews 3:7-8). profession. The High Priest was one taken out of the people, and bound to the people by ties of the closest and most intimate kind. , “consider,” “bring your mind to bear upon,” “observe so as to see the significance,” as in Luke 12:24, , though it is sometimes, as in Acts 11:6; Acts 27:39, used in its classical sense “perceive”. The word has deep significance. 4 For every house is built by someone, but God is the builder of everything. Bleek quotes from Primasius: “Fratres eos vocat tam carne quam spiritu qui ex eodem genere erant”. When he had accomplished purification from sins, (1-2a) Jesus brought a revelation superior to the prophets of old. As an Apostle, or God’s messenger, he pleads the cause of God with us; and as High-Priest, he pleads our cause with God. To be the High Priest. He is the Son, and the High Priest. Apostle and High-priest of our profession; Consider the Apostle an High-priest of our profession, &c. οὐ γὰρ τῆς κατὰ νόμον λατρείας ἀρχιερεύς ἐστιν. Both these offices, which Moses and Aaron severally bore, he bears together, and far more eminently; of our profession — Of the religion we profess, of which Jesus is called the Apostle, because he was sent by God to reveal it; and the High-Priest, because we receive its blessings through his mediation. By wandering off, one way or another, away from the living God. If you are his house be not defiled: surely he should dwell in a holy place. Hebrews 3:1-6 is situated in the first major division of the letter (1:5-4:13). To reject Him now is a double insult. Israel has an earthly calling and an earthly destiny. ), God grant that none of this congregation may be of that mind, who having named the name of Christ and being known as his people, continue to grieve him one way and another, to put him to the test by their doubts to make him angry by their sins. As what applies to Him applies also to His people, the twelve are designated His apostles, even as He is the Father's. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, even Jesus. the very imprint of his being, and who sustains all things by his mighty word. Only here applied to the Lord. He shews the awful State of Unbelief! 1:11, 12) yet note, they did not obtain the "calling" by excellent behavior, nor lose it by failure, but enjoyed it in a faithful walk. "Apostle" (lit. But he came from the wilderness not from Heaven, and he was too weak to bear the burden alone so that Aaron became the High Priest. The Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.—The best MSS. NASB E-Prime Young's Compare all. Hebrews 3:9. I'm not adamant about it, but you will see in my commentary notes here a frequent reference to Paul's authorship. Throughout this passage (Hebrews 3:2; Hebrews 3:5-6) “His house” must be taken in the sense of the quotation, as the house of God. There were two; it was a slender remnant that were faithful. God save us from ossification of heart, petrifaction of heart, till we get a heart of love or a heart of stone-may God save us from this. This was in contrast with Moses. , Hebrews 9:15) suggested by the latent comparison in the writer’s mind between the Israelites called to earthly advantages, a land, etc., and his readers whose hopes were fixed on things above. Hebrews 12:25. was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? Partakers of, partners in a ‘calling’ that comes from heaven and leads to it, besides giving the tastes and spirit appropriate to our destiny (John 3:31; Matthew 3:2; Philippians 3:20), servants, therefore, and workers under a new and divine economy. This expression in Hebrews 3:1 speaks therefore of the Church. It is through Him God has spoken (Hebrews 1:1). Every believer, from the first moment of his new life in Christ, has thus the germ of perfect holiness, although sanctification is also represented as a growth in holiness, and advancement in conformity to God, 1 Thessalonians 4:3-4; 1 Thessalonians 5:23. It is probable that the expression, ‘Apostle and Priest of our confession,’ means even more than ‘sent by God and accepted by us.’ When the high priest went into the holy place on the day of Atonement, he was called the apostle, the messenger of the nation whom he represented, and for whom as priest he pleaded. If your God is not a living God to you in whom you live and move and have your being, if he does not come into your daily life, but if your religion is a dead and formal thing, then you will soon depart. 3:17, 18: It was not the intention of God, in revealing to us a marvellous "calling" into which He had foreordained us, to have us become negligent. The writer thus confidently hopes that he is speaking to those who are true believers. This Apostle and Priest the Hebrews had acknowledged as their own (of our profession, or confession rather), and it became them to be faithful as confessors to Him they had in this double office accepted. God calls us through the message of the Good News (. Who also. One is hard-pressed to find a verse-by-verse commentary on the Book of Hebrews from a Torah perspective. 3 who is the refulgence of his glory,. Therefore, holy brothers and sisters, partners in a heavenly calling, take note of Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess (Hebrews 3:1) “Therefore” informs us that our author is linking our text with what has been said earlier. Very well done sermons on Hebrews … The usual New Testament meaning of this is “fellow Christians,” including both men and women. 2 The superior *apostle 3:1-4:13 Jesus is superior to Moses 3:1-6 Thus does He combine within Himself that which had been too great a burden even for Moses. Consider the Apostle — The messenger of God, sent immediately from him to preach that gospel to you which you profess to believe; the highest office this in the New Testament; and High-Priest — This was the highest function in the Old Testament church. Want of faith brings want of holiness, and when we abide in the faith we abide in obedience. But exhort one another daily, while it is called Today; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 4:1. Heavenly calling; by which God called and inclined them to prepare for heaven. . K.J.V. Though "Apostle" is nowhere else applied to Christ, it is appropriate in addressing Hebrews, who used the term of delegates sent by the High Priest to collect the temple tribute from Jews in foreign countries, even as Christ was the Father's Delegate to this world, far off from Him (Matthew 21:37). See Hebrews 1:9. heavenly. Apostle—One sent, a legate. Greek. — Ed. Exodus 3:10. By Him the Gospel was first promulgated. , a title which, as applicable to Jesus, the writer explains in chaps. Our “Hebrews” here addressed rejoiced in the grandeur of the divine Apostle, the glorious Messiah, but were shrinking almost to apostasy from the degradation of the High Priest, the suffering Messiah. Jesus was sent from Heaven to earth to carry out a mission of salvation. Butthey did not become brethren by their holiness; they were born into that relationship regardless of their knowledge of God. metochos. Probably, is here used slightly in the Old Testament sense of the word, (see note on. He is God’s direct ‘Sent One’, with no intervention of angels. Keith Simons. After shedding His blood in a supreme sacrifice, Jesus was qualified to reenter the court of eternal glory, there to act as the High Priest for the Christians on the merits of His shed blood, even as the high priests in the Mosaic system entered the second court of the tabernacle and temple with the blood of animals. Apostle. So that, while all boasting is excluded, Christ's doctrine is manifestly according to godliness. (Hebrews 2:11) It should bless and encourage us that Jesus calls us His holy brethren. Hebrews 3:7-8. Hebrews 3:1. Liberty University A Commentary Comparison on the Difficult Interpretation of Hebrews 6:1-8 A paper submitted to Dr. Adeyemi In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the course NBST 654 Liberty Theological seminary By Christopher W. Myers Lynchburg, … Genre; Hortatory. He had before exalted Christ as a teacher above all the prophets, including no doubt Moses among the rest; but here refers to Moses as the leader of the people, as one sent especially by God to conduct them from Egypt through the wilderness to the land of Canaan. Book Notes Barnes' Book Notes Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Book Notes Robertson's Book Notes (NT) Commentaries Adam Clarke Barnes' Notes Forerunner Commentary Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown John Wesley's Notes Matthew Henry People's Commentary (NT) … Hebrews 3:16. And. Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. Our confession is that for which we take a public stand in water baptism, namely, Christianity (cf. Let us begin with Hebrews 13:2 where it says, “Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it” (Heb. This is in contrast with Moses’ call to an earthly Utopia, a ‘land of milk and honey’. Greek. administrator over the incoming dispensation, ; he is the glorious Messiah. But to provoke God, when he is letting us see that we entirely depend and live upon him, is a provocation indeed. CHAPTER 1. These two functions embrace not the whole of Christ’s work, but all that He did on earth (cf.Hebrews 1:1-4). New International Version (NIV) The purpose of the writer in this passage, as in the whole Epistle, is to encourage his readers in their allegiance to Christ and to save them from apostacy by exhibiting Christ as the final mediator. Temporary Christians are not really Christians. Calling—See notes on 1 Corinthians 1:1; 1 Corinthians 7:20. Hebrews 3:19. But Christ was sent. For that was why He was sent, to make the way of forgiveness and reconciliation available to those whom God has chosen. 1 John 4:14. To be brethren of Christ requires a life of righteousness ( Matthew 12:50), hence Paul calls these people by the term italicized. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. A “confession” does not always involve that its significance is seen. The faith we profess. In view of the unutterable Grace that had formed such purposes toward their unworthy selves they are filled with rapturous thanksgiving. Jesus both brought the message from God and is also High Priest. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest. qui causam nostram apud Deum agit”. In Hebrews 3, Paul admonishes us to hold fast to what Jesus taught us (see also Revelation 3:11). And as humanized Sufferer (Hebrews 2:9-18) he is our High Priest. He has come directly from God. And High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus: Посланника и Первосвященника «, A Comparison Between Jesus and Moses, The One The Son Over The House, The Other The Servant In The House (. Let us now fully and steadily analyze his nature in each office. Hence Christ is said not only to be made of God unto them righteousness, but sanctification. The calling, here, is used very much in the sense of 1 Corinthians 7:20, to denote the permanent state resulting from permanent obedience to the call, and which has solidified into the correlative profession soon named. They are the holy under the new dispensation, as Israel was under the old. As Moses especially was the prophet by whom 'God in time past spake to the Fathers' (Hebrews 1:1), being mediator of the law, Paul shows that, great as was Moses, the Son of God is greater. Hebrews 3:18. Hebrews 3:1 to Hebrews 4:13.—Chapters 3 and 4 as far as Hebrews 3:13, form one paragraph. Heavenly calling is used mainly as a mark of superiority for the service under Christ over the old one. It is as though he were saying that there would be no new Apostles to look to, for those who knew Jesus in the flesh were dying out, but that they still have Jesus, Who is always there, Who is greater than them all, alive from the dead and living in their hearts. Hebrews 2:10-18 Jesus Made Perfect Through Suffering. See John 3:12. (1) Wherefore.—The address which here begins (the first direct address in the Epistle) bears the same relation to all that has preceded, as Hebrews 2:1-4 bears to the first chapter. ): , but here another sense is intended.] His, … … Hebrews 3:10-11. “Wherefore” connects generally with chaps, 1. It was a complete ministry. Moses also was ‘sent’ (Exodus 3:12-15; Exodus 4:28). For that is where they are now destined for, the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God (Hebrews 11:10), the heavenly Jerusalem (Hebrews 12:22). While the saints are exhorted to "walk worthily of the calling wherewith they were called" (Eph. Study Hebrews 3 using Matthew Henry Bible Commentary (complete) to better understand Scripture with full outline and verse meaning. is several times used in this epistle without the epithet. Twice over we are warned of this, to avoid hardness of heart. He is our high priest, who offered himself in sacrifice for the sanctification of his Church, and who is now exercising at the right hand of his Father the office of the priesthood in our behalf, both in heaven and on earth. Submitted by admin on Thu, 2010-05-20 17:45. Paul compares Him as an Apostle to Moses, as High Priest to Aaron. Believers are represented as sanctified by the blood of Christ, chap13:12, as Israel was sanctified or set apart as God's peculiar people by the blood of the Sinai covenant. ρονομίας, κατανοήσατε τοὺς κόρακας, ἀποστείλω σε πρὸς φαραώ, ὁ μὲν δὴ μέγας Ἀρχιερεὺς τῆς ὁμολογίας, Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Jesus, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. He ruled the new dispensation in the character of the Son of Prayer of Manasseh, having been for the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor. Moses kept the law and was a good example to Israel save in some point of weakness, but Christ perfectly carried out his Father’s commission, and he is worthy of more honour than Moses. Hebrews 2:1-9 God Put Jesus in Charge of Everything. Our St. Paul will now so unfold both as to confirm their view of the grandeur of the exaltation, and reconstruct their view of the equal grandeur and pathos of the humiliation. Moses is never called (a word indeed which occurs only once in LXX) though in Exodus 3:10 God says . He concludes the preceding doctrine with a necessary exhortation, that the Jews should attentively consider what sort of being and how great Christ is. Holy brethren.—United in one brotherhood in virtue of a common sonship (Hebrews 2:10) and of a common brotherhood (Hebrews 2:11) with Jesus, Him “that sanctifieth” (Hebrews 2:11). The of Hebrews 3:17 strikes the keynote of this paragraph. 8:30 says that they were foreordained before this calling. to consider the apostle and high priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, nous), to put the mind down on a thing, to fix the mind on as in, τον αποστολον και αρχιερεα της ομολογιας ημων, The Apostle and High Priest of our confession, ton apostolon kai archierea tēs homologias hēmōn. As God’s Apostle or Legate, Christ is super-angelic representative of God on earth; he is ruling administrator over the incoming dispensation, Hebrews 2:5-8; he is the glorious Messiah. “For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them.” In the old time that gospel which was preached to them was preached to us -- “but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.” God send us this holy mixture of the hearing and the believing, to our hour’s salvation, to his glory. New International Version - UK (NIVUK) Hebrews 3:1 Context. Christ Jesus. (Witham) --- Jesus Christ is not only our apostle, he is the doctor, the legislator or the religion we profess. Commentary on Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16. under the new dispensation, as Israel was under the old. 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