Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
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Gill's Exposition
Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about,...., As the Israelites were encompassed with the pillar of cloud, or with the clouds of glory in the wilderness, as the Jews say; See Gill on Co1 10:1,…
Barnes' Notes
Wherefore - In view of what has been said in the previous chapter. Seeing we also are encompassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses - The apostle represents those to whom he had referred in the…
Adam Clarke
Wherefore - This is an inference drawn from the examples produced in the preceding chapter, and on this account both should be read in connection.
Compassed about - Here is another allusion to the…
Here observe what is the great duty which the apostle urges upon the Hebrews, and which he so much desires they would comply with, and that is, to lay aside every weight, and the sin that did so…
Cambridge Bible
An exhortation to patient steadfastness
1. Wherefore The Greek word is a very strong particle of inference not found elsewhere in the N. T. except in 1Th 4:8.
seeing we also are compassed The order of…
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