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- Hebrews
- Chapter 12
- Verse 4
My Notes
Commentary
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Gill's Exposition
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood,.... They had resisted sin, and Satan, and the world, the men of it, and the lusts of it, and its frowns and flatteries, and also false teachers, even every…
Barnes' Notes
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin - The general sense of this passage is, “you have not yet been called in your Christian struggles to the highest kind of sufferings and…
Adam Clarke
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood - Many of those already mentioned were martyrs for the truth; they persevered unto death, and lost their lives in bearing testimony to the truth. Though you have…
Here the apostle presses the exhortation to patience and perseverance by an argument taken from the gentle measure and gracious nature of those sufferings which the believing Hebrews endured in their…
Cambridge Bible
Fatherly chastisements should be cheerfully endured
4. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood If this be a metaphor drawn from pugilism, as the last is from "running a race," it means that as yet they…
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