Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil;
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Gill's Exposition
And deliver them, who through fear of death,.... This is another end of Christ's assuming human nature, and dying in it, and thereby destroying Satan, that he might save some out of his hands:
who…
Barnes' Notes
Forasmuch then - Since; or because. As the children - Those who were to become the adopted children of God; or who were to sustain that relation to him. Are partakers of flesh and blood - Have a human…
Adam Clarke
The children are partakers of flesh and blood - Since those children of God, who have fallen and are to be redeemed, are human beings; in order to be qualified to redeem them by suffering and dying in…
Here the apostle proceeds to assert the incarnation of Christ, as taking upon him not the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham; and he shows the reason and design of his so doing.
I. The…
Cambridge Bible
A fuller statement of the moral fitness of Christ's participation in human sufferings
14. are partakers of flesh and blood Rather, "have shared (and do share) in blood and flesh," i.e. are human. They…
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