Hebrews 4:14 - 5:9
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- NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
- Greek Interlinear Bible, ScrTR, ScrTR t, Strong, Parsing, CGTS, CGES id, AV. Chapter 5.
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- The Blue Letter Bible - KJV, alternate versions, Greek text with concordance, commentaries. Chapter 5
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- Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
- Chapter III, The Prescription of Heretics, Tertullian (c. 200)
- II.VI.4, First Principles (De Principiis), Origen. (c.225)
- I.3, I.23, Commentary on the Gospel of John, Origen. (c.228)
- VIII.XXXIV, Against Celsus, Origen (c. 246)
- From the
Geneva Notes.
Chapter 5
- "Christ being exceedingly afflicted and exceedingly merciful did not pray because of his sins, for he had none, but for his fear, and obtained his request, and offered himself for all who are his."
- From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
Chapter 5
- "Christ set an example, not only to pray, but to be fervent in prayer. How many dry prayers, how few wetted with tears, do we offer up to God! He was strengthened to support the immense weight of suffering laid upon him."
- From
Wesley's Notes.
Chapter
5
- "Indeed, his human nature needed the support of Omnipotence; and for this he sent up strong crying and tears: but, throughout his whole life, he showed that it was not the sufferings he was to undergo, but the dishonour that sin had done to so holy a God, that grieved his spotless soul. The consideration of its being the will of God tempered his fear, and afterwards swallowed it up; and he was heard not so that the cup should pass away, but so that he drank it without any fear."
- From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
Chapter 5.
- "The Greek adage is, "Pathemata mathemata," "sufferings, disciplinings." Praying and obeying, as in Christ's case, ought to go hand in hand."
- From
The People's
New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
Chapter 5.
- "Christ's priesthood continues while time endures. He is not of the order of Aaron, but of Melchizedek, a king as well as a priest. See Gen. 14:18, 19. For a fuller discussion of the priesthood of Melchizedek, see notes on chapter 7:1-10."
- Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
-
"First
Thoughts on Epistle Passages in the Lectionary,"
Good Friday, William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in
Australia.
- "Ultimately the message is not that God was far away from Christ at his lowest point (knowing he had planned it all for our sake), but that God was right there in Christ at his lowest point and that faith's challenge is to believe that without compromising Christ's humanity and individuality what we see there in Jesus is not only Jesus, but also God."
-
Commentary, Hebrews 4:14-5:1, Gloria J. Tate, The African American
Lectionary, 2008.
- "We know that we can draw from God?s deep waters of mercy and grace."
- "A Preliminary
Exegesis of Hebrews 4:15 with a View Toward Solving the Peccability/Impeccability
Issue," Daniel B. Wallace, Dallas Theological Seminary.
- "In the least, we must say that this text is hardly proof of either impeccability or peccability."
-
"First
Thoughts on Epistle Passages in the Lectionary,"
Good Friday, William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in
Australia.
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Recommended articles
from ATLAS, an online collection of religion and theology journals, are
linked below.
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- Galloway, Lewis F., "Hebrews 4:14-5:10,"
Interpretation, 2003. (See also,
"Hebrews," issue focus of Interpretation, 2003.)
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials - Songer, Harold S.,
"A Superior Priesthood: Hebrews 4:14-7:28," Review and Expositor,
1985.
EBSCO ATLASerials, Religion Collection
EBSCO ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials
- Galloway, Lewis F., "Hebrews 4:14-5:10,"
Interpretation, 2003. (See also,
"Hebrews," issue focus of Interpretation, 2003.)
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- Hymns with Scripture Allusions: Hebrews 4:14, 15, 16; 5:7. The Cyber Hymnal.
- Hymnary.org, hymns, scores, media, information.
- Hymnal Scripture References, The Lutheran Hymnal, Lutheran Worship.
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