Hebrews 2:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. ”

• Hebrews 2:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For in that he himself ... - “Because” he has suffered, he is able to sympathize with sufferers. Being tempted - Or, being “tried.” The Greek word used here is more general in its meaning tha...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For in that he himself hath suffered being (g) tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. (g) Was tried and urged to wickedness by the devil.

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Hebrews 1:5 to Hebrews 2:18 . The Son is Superior to the Angels. For this theme the way has been prepared in the closing words of Hebrews 1:14 . The section may possibly be directed against ang...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  in that . wherein. tempted . tried or tested. Compare Matthew 4:1 and Luke 22:23 . succour . Compare 2 Corinthians 6:2 .

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  18. For in that he himself has suffered, etc. Having been tried by our evils, he is ready, he says, to bring us help. The word temptation here means no other thing than experience or p...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 2277 CHRIST’S POWER TO SUCCOUR THE TEMPTED Hebrews 2:18 . In that he himself hath suffered, being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted . THERE was in various respects...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. For in that he himself hath suffered - The maxim on which this verse is founded is the following: A st...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. For - How His being made like His brethren in all things has made Him a merciful and faithful...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Jesus Exalted in Humiliation 1-4. The former dispensation, even though mediated by comparatively inferior beings such as the angels, was yet so sacred that all neglect of it was severely punished....

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (5-18) It was needful that Jesus, as Author of salvation to man, should in all points be made like to those whom He saves, and in their likeness suffer and die; thus He becomes for them a merciful an...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER II THE SON AND THE ANGELS Hebrews 1:4 - Hebrews 2:18 The most dangerous and persistent error against which the theologians of the New Testament had to contend was the doctrine of ema...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “Made Like unto His Brethren” Hebrews 2:10-18 Captain reminds us of Acts 3:15 . It means file-leader . The Church follows its Leader, Jesus Christ, in single file through this world, the c...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here we have the first of a series of warnings uttered in connection with the arguments. If the ministrations of angels had been of so steadfast a character, how much more the speech of the Son. The...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  (16) For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. (17) Wherefore in all things it behooved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a mer...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  THE SYMPATHY OF CHRIST ‘For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succour them that are tempted.’ Hebrews 2:18 Many purposes, no doubt, were answered by the temptatio...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted ,.... By Satan, at his entrance on his public ministry, and a little before his death; which was done, not by stirring up sin in him, for he had no...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For in that he himself hath suffered being tempted, he is able to succour them that are tempted. Ver. 18. He is able to succour ] And no less apt than able; as he that hath been poor, or troubled...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Wherefore in all things That essentially pertain to our nature, and in all sufferings and temptations; it behooved him In respect of the office, duty, and employment he had taken upon him; or it...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  The first four verses of this chapter now press upon us the appropriate conclusions that must be drawn from so transcendent a revelation of the glory of God. "For this reason we should give heed more...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Christ's Incarnation. A. D.  62.       14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  For in that he himself hath suffered: the reason foregoing the Spirit illustrates in this verse; he is such a merciful and faithful High Priest, by being a sufferer himself, which he could not have...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 2:5 . World to come. —The new dispensation. Rabbinical teaching was divided under two heads: (1) hâ‘ôlâm hazzeh (the present world), and (2) hâ‘ôlâm...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Hebrews 2:11-18 I. The first truth which is brought before us in these verses is, that Jesus, who is not ashamed to call Himself brother, and us His brethren, is one with us. We who are sanctified...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Hebrews 2:1 . Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. It is well to give heed to what you are now hearing, bu...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Hebrews 2:1 . We ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard. The things relating to the glory of the person of Christ, and all his offices as mediator; these we ought to...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Hebrews 2:1-58 INTERPOSED EXHORTATION as explained above. Hebrews 2:1 On this account ( i.e. on account of what has been seen of the SON 'S superiority to the ang...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Deliverance Effected by Christ. Hebrews 2:14-18

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Corinthians 10:13 ; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 ; 2 Peter 2:9 ; 2 Timothy 1:12 ; Hebrews 4:15 ; Hebrews 4:16 ; Hebrews 5:2 ; Hebrews 5:7-9 ; Hebrews 7:25 ; Hebrews 7:26 ; John 10:29 ; Jude 1:...

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• Hebrews 2:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  For in that he hath suffered being tempted himself he is able to succour them that are tempted — That is, he has given a manifest, demonstrative proof that he is able so to do.

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