“ For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. ”
For here we have no continuing city ... - We do not regard this as our final home, or our fixed abode, and we should be willing to bear reproaches during the little time that we are to remain her...
Admonitions concerning Church discipline. The brethren are to cherish the memory of their former leaders, who instructed them in the truth of God and exemplified it in their life and death. Jesus Chr...
seek . Same word in Hebrews 11:14 . one to com . = the coming one.
14. For here we have no continuing city, etc. He extends still further the going forth which he had mentioned, even that as strangers and wanderers in this world we should consider that w...
DISCOURSE: 2348 THE CHRISTIAN’S PORTION Hebrews 13:14 . Here have we no continuing city; but we seek one to come . ACCUSTOMED as we are to expect a future state of existence, we scarcely ever r...
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. For here have we no continuing city - Here is an elegant and forcible allusion to the approaching destruction of Jerusalem. The Jerusalem...
For here we have no continuing city,— When the apostle said, Let us go forth unto him without the camp, he speaks as if we were in our wilderness state, travelling toward the place of our rest. I...
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Here - on earth. Those who clung to the earthly sanctuary represent all who cling to this earth. The earthly Jerusalem proved to...
Advice, Memories, Prayers, Greetings The Epistle concludes with various exhortations in regard to the social life ( Hebrews 13:1-3 ), private life ( Hebrews 13:4-6 ), the religious life ( Hebrews...
In this verse there seems to be a union of two thoughts: (1) We are free to go forth from the city so long held sacred, for our hopes are bound up with no abiding earthly sanctuary. (2) We may not sh...
CHAPTER XVI. SUNDRY EXHORTATIONS. Hebrews 13:1-25 Let love of the brethren continue. Forget not to shew love unto strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. Remember them th...
Praise, Prayer, and Peace Hebrews 13:14-25 Notice that though the ancient sacrifices have been abolished, there is one which can never grow old-the sacrifice of praise . This incense must ever...
The last chapter contains a series of general exhortations. It is evident that the letter was sent to those whose faith was being challenged and weakened, and whose love, therefore, was cooling. Thes...
(10) We have an altar, whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. (11) For the bodies of those beasts, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are bur...
THE POSITION OF CHRISTIANS IN THE WORLD ‘For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.’ Hebrews 13:14 These words sum up what was certainly the apostolic mind as to the posit...
For here have we no continuing city ,.... Neither for religious worship, the city of Jerusalem being quickly to be destroyed, nor for civil life to dwell in; and so may have a peculiar regard to the...
For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. Ver. 14. For here we have none ] Improve this argument for the working our hearts off from the things of this world; the beauty of al...
Wherefore Jesus also Who was typified by these sin- offerings; that he might sanctify Might make atonement for, and consecrate to God; the people His church, the spiritual Israel of God; with...
The first six verses of this chapter have a striking moral relationship to what has gone before. We have seen that though God's dispensational ways have undergone a mighty change in the advent of His...
Various Duties. A. D. 62. 1 Let brotherly love continue. 2 Be not forgetful to entertain str...
This is an enforcement of the foregoing duty, as the particle for cleareth; That they have no reason to be discouraged from going forth from Judaism, and those erroneous doctrines, and the world, t...
Our Altar Is a Spiritual One Were Jesus Christ Was Crucified And Is Outside The Camp and Outside The City Where The Levitical Priests Hold Sway and Our Sacrifices Are Of A Different Nature To Theirs...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 13:10 .—This and the following verses form a little episode of argument in the midst of moral exhortations. Reference is made to the feasts which followed sa...
Hebrews 13:1-16 I. Having warned the Hebrews against the dangers of selfishness, fleshly lusts, and covetousness, the Apostle proceeds to warn them against the dangers threatening their faith and...
This is a practical chapter at the close of this most instructive Epistle. Hebrews 13:1 . Let brotherly love continue. The word «continue» implies that the «brotherly love» exists, there are man...
Hebrews 13:1 . Let brotherly love continue. The love as when you first believed, and when many of you sold your possessions to raise a fund for the widows, who were cut off from the alms of the sy...
Here have we no continuing city An ever-changing scene: These words sum up what was certainly the apostolic mind as to the position of Christians in the world. They were members, as we are, of...
CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS EXPOSITION As in St. Paul's Epistles, practical directions as to conduct conclude the treatise, such as the readers may be supposed to have especially needed. They a...
Bearing Christ's reproach and working for His glory:
1 Corinthians 7:29 ; 1 Peter 4:7 ; 2 Corinthians 4:17 ; 2 Corinthians 4:18 ; 2 Corinthians 5:1-8 ; 2 Peter 3:13 ; 2 Peter 3:14 ; Colossians 3:1-3 ; Hebrews 11:10 ; Hebrews 11:12-16 ; Hebre...
For we have here — On earth No continuing city — All things here are but for a moment; and Jerusalem itself was just then on the point of being destroyed.