hebrews 11:22 commentary
Demosthenes said: "Envy is the sign of a nature that is altogether evil." 3. The second part of the history of Joseph's death reads: "Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, 'God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.'. So as Jesus said to Martha grieving over her brother Lazarus, "If you live and believe in Me, you will never die." The gracious and great reward of their faith: he gives them leave to call him so; and he gives them the spirit of adoption, to enable them to cry, (3.) Now the tone becomes bolder with them, and shows clearly that the Jew had but an empty form, a foreshadow of value once, but now superseded by the true antitype in the heavens. All this is a gradual undermining the wall until the whole structure is overthrown. He will not have his people take up that rest any where short of the heavenly Canaan. But here is One who proffers Himself to come, and does come. The Jew never understood his law until the light of Christ on the cross and in glory shone upon it. Here observe. But this trial was greater than all; he was commanded to offer up his son Isaac. As a supposed criminal, when the king's wrath was incensed against him for killing the Egyptian (. To his deep humiliation the Romans ordered him home. It is evident that in these we have the two main parts of Christianity. It is a recompense of reward, because given by a righteous Judge for the righteousness of Christ to righteous persons, according to the righteous rule of the covenant of grace. Cain was bitterly dissatisfied. That he was translated, that he should not see death, nor any part of him be found upon earth; for God took him, soul and body, into heaven, as he will do those of the saints who shall be found alive at his second coming. Moses wisely chose the eternal over the immediate. [2.] Interesting statement, especially from a scientific standpoint. "The officers, impatient at the man's boldness, dislocated his hands and feet with racking engines and wrenching them from their sockets, pulled his limbs asunder. As those who would follow the faithful steps of Abraham would die and would come into this compartment of hell, Abraham would say, "Don't worry, God's faithful. "Let us go forth therefore unto him without the. 2M views 7 years ago #BibleVideo #BibleProject #Hebrews Watch our overview video on the book of Hebrews, which breaks down the literary design of the book and its flow of thought. There is no real contradiction. He has set His mind upon making us, patterns of His holiness. Of Christ who was given up to death, who is risen and gone above, in whom we find all the blessing promised, and after a better sort. "And who is the lord of Terah?" So here the Psalms acquire a meaning self-evidently true, the moment Christ is brought in, who is the truth, and nothing less. Having brought its to see the "church of the firstborn which are written in heaven," the apostle next can only speak of "God the Judge of all." "Do you really think," asked the judge, "that the like of you will go to God and his glory?" They are outlaws. By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet ( Hebrews 11:7 ). This they did for three months. See on 1 Timothy 6:14. Now he takes two figures from the period of struggle when the children of Israel were winning a place for themselves within Palestine. But the bodies of those beasts were burnt without the camp: my place, so far as I in the body am concerned, is one of shame and suffering in this world. Preacher of righteousness . It is a happy thing where yoke-fellows draw together in the yoke of faith, as heirs of the grace of God; and when they do this in a religious concern for the good of their children, to preserve them not only from those who would destroy their lives, but from those who would corrupt their minds. Christ accounts himself reproached in their reproaches; and, while he thus interests himself in their reproaches, they become riches, and greater riches than the treasures of the richest empire in the world; for Christ will reward them with a crown of glory that fades not away. And the wheel was besmeared all over with blood, and the heap of coals was extinguished with the droppings of gore, and pieces of flesh flew about the axles of the machine." The sixth they broke upon the wheel "while a fire roasted him from beneath. Some must hazard their own lives to preserve their children, and they were resolved to do it; they knew the king's commandment was evil in itself, contrary to the laws of God and nature, and therefore of no authority nor obligation. XV. They are strangers as saints, whose home is heaven; they are pilgrims as they are travelling towards their home, though often meanly and slowly. Accordingly he became just the more the vessel of divine power to the glory of God. The prevalency of their faith over their fear. The story of Samson is in Judges 13:1-25; Judges 14:1-20; Judges 15:1-20; Judges 16:1-31. Now people who speak like that make it quite clear that they are searching for a fatherland. If it be some good thing, faith stirs up love and desire; if some evil thing, faith stirs up fear. (1. (iv) Some have seen in death the supreme terror and the unmitigated evil. As they are companions, so do they test a walk with God; one is faith, the other is suffering. In that day it will be the joy of Him who is the true Melchisedec, to bring out not the mere signs, but the reality of all that can be the stay and comfort of man, and all that sustains and cheers, the patent proof of the beneficent might of God, when "no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.". They were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; of whom the world was not worthy ( Hebrews 11:37-38 ): What a statement, remarkable statement, concerning these men. It is not owing to our inherent righteousness or best performances that we are saved from the wrath of God, but to the blood of Christ and his imputed righteousness. 2. That is why the Christian message is the gospel, good news; it is news so good that it is almost impossible to believe it true. (3.) that is, he praised God for what he had done for him, and for the prospect he had of approaching blessedness; and he prayed for those he was leaving behind him, that religion might live in his family when he was gone. But Abraham said, 'Son, do you remember that in your lifetime you had the good things, and Lazarus the evil? Culture & Commentary. God said, "And when I pass through the land tonight and I see the blood, I will pass over that house and the first-born will be spared." Holy Scripture then demanded that a man should sit down at the right hand of God. This was an effectual call, by which he was converted from the idolatry of his father's house, 2. The strength of nature, as well as grace, is from God: he can make the barren soul fruitful, as well as the barren womb. I'm convicted of truths, though I may not have seen them, I'm convicted of their existence. Asked to take out the biggest, baddest enemy of the people that had oppressed Israel for seven years, he nervously asked God for signs of assurance. The time for the proper exercise of the Melchisedec priesthood of Christ is not yet arrived. This is another way of putting the famous classical saying: "Whom the gods love die young." Not only is it because He is the only one capable of being a perfect sacrifice but as verse 22 says, "the law requires that nearly everything be cleansed in blood." . by the power and the faith of the prophets, women did receive back again their children who had died. Upon his mind; it impressed his soul with a fear of God's judgment: he was. Isaac, Jacob and Joseph were all certain that the promise to Abraham would be fulfilled. When common sense pronounced the situation hopeless, she had the uncommon sense to see beyond the situation. And gave commandment concerning his bones; and the command was a very strict one when he gave it; he took an oath of his brethren to fulfil it; it was concerning his bones, not his body, which shows that he believed their departure out of Egypt was at a great distance, when his flesh would be consumed, and only his bones left, as it was about two hundred years after his death; it respects the carrying them out of Egypt with them, and burying them in the land of Canaan, when they came there; and this is an instance of his humility, in choosing to lie with his fathers, rather than with the kings, and great men in Egypt, and of his care to prevent idolatry, which he might observe the Egyptians would be prone unto: and this command was a great instance of Joseph's faith, that the children of Israel would return to Canaan, and which might serve greatly to confirm their faith in it; it also shows his belief of the resurrection of the dead, and of his enjoying the heavenly inheritance, signified by the land of Canaan; See Genesis 50:24, the Papists, from hence, plead for the relics of saints; but it should be observed, that it was at the request, and by the command of Joseph, that his bones were preserved, which is not the case of the saints, whose relics are pleaded for; besides, these were the true and real bones of Joseph, whereas the relics of the saints are only pretended; to which may be added, that the bones of Joseph, were ordered to be buried, not to be showed for a sight, much less worshipped, as Popish relics are. After the incredulity came the dawning realization that this was God who was speaking; and God cannot lie. In the end they tore him apart on the catapult and flayed him alive. VII. The faith of the parents of Moses, which is cited from, There appeared in him something uncommon; the beauty of the Lord sat upon him, as a presage that he was born to great things, and that by conversing with God his face should shine (, whose foundling he was, and her fondling too; she had adopted him for his son, and he refused it. (2.) But God took care to summon His children outside to abandon the whole system before it was destroyed. Never used by Paul. 2 Chronicles 24:20-22 tells how the prophet Zechariah was stoned by his own people because he told them the truth. Ours should as well. 2. Accordingly it is shown that such an one becomes an adversary of the Lord, and God will deal with him as such. For although outwardly, no doubt, the prosperity lasted in the time of Solomon, it was mainly the fruit of David's suffering, and power, and glory. It was by faith that he left Egypt, unmoved by the blazing anger of the king, for he could face all things as one who sees him who is invisible. Here observe, [1.] He may infer that there must be; but he never can say that there is. Through faith, Enoch, as he walked with God, was translated that he should not see death, but before then he had this witness: he pleased God. If He tells me to get out, I want Him to tell me where to go. But they are completely gone; and therefore at God's right-hand sits down He who is its witness. It ( ) means "testament" as well as "covenant." It was prefigured in Jonah, and Jesus brought that out, "As Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale, so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth" ( Matthew 12:40 ). 22 By faith Joseph, when he died, made mention of the departing of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones. These two things, the cross on earth and glory on high, are correlative. The lamb sacrificed for the house. The eternal reward of living for Him so far outweighs any temporal advantage that I might have in living after the flesh. They lashed him with whips and tied him to the wheel until he was dislocated and fractured in every limb. Adam then gave the girl to Abel and Cain was sorely vexed. Abraham was the man who would sacrifice even the dearest thing in life for God. The powerful success of the prescribed means. We are not come to Sinai, the mountain that burned with fire, nor unto blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and a voice more terrible than that of the elements. The grace of God is absolutely free, in taking some of the worst of men, and making them the best. He went down to Hebron and back up to the area of Shechem. It is an idea that superstition hatched, for the purpose of spuriously exalting a clerical order. It is easy to argue: "Why should I refuse the pleasure of the moment for an uncertain future?" He contrived the model; he accordingly made it, and he has laid open a new and living way into it, and prepared it for his people; he puts them into possession of it, prefers them in it, and is himself the substance and felicity of it. So did Jacob in regard to Josephs sons, which was for him an act of faith in his old age. And this blessed person, single-handed but according to the will of God, accomplishes that will in offering Himself on the cross. Isaac and Jacob were heirs of the same promise; for the promise was renewed to Isaac (Genesis 26:3), and to Jacob, Genesis 28:13. The Christian stands between the cross and the glory of the Lord Jesus. Let peoples serve you and nations bow down to you." He had to wander in it, a stranger and a tent-dweller, as the people were some day to wander in the wilderness. It is possible that the word "worlds," which is a Hebraistic word, belonging to the Alexandrian Jews particularly, may embrace dispensations; but undoubtedly the material world is included in it. That was a wicked and a cruel edict, that all the males of the Israelites should be destroyed in their infancy, and so the name of Israel must be destroyed out of the earth. (v) Because these men were what they were, God was not ashamed to be called their God. And the apostle would that their work of watching might be done with joy, and not groaning for this would be unprofitable for the saints. His last words were: "Why fear death? 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