Hebrews 2:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and giftsb of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? ”

Hebrews 2:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

God also bearing them witness - By miracles. Giving them the sanction of his authority, or showing that they were sent by him. No man can work a miracle by his own power. When the dead are raised...
Hebrews 2:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

God also bearing [them] witness, both with (e) signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? (e) This is the true purpose of miracles. Now they...
Hebrews 2:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

For the first time the writer discloses the practical aim which gives force and meaning to his theological argument. Christian men ought to realise the grandeur of their calling, and to hold fast to...
Hebrews 2:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

God. App-98. bearing... witness . bearing witness with. Greek. sunepimartureo. Only here. signs, wonders, miracles . See App-176 Hebrews 3:2 ; Hebrews 3:1 . gifts . distributions. Greek....
Hebrews 2:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

4. God also bearing them witness, etc. In addition to the fact, that the Apostles had what they preached from the Son of God, the Lord also proved his approbation of their preaching by mi...
Hebrews 2:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? God also bearing them witness - He did not leave the co...
Hebrews 2:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? Them - rather, 'God, along with the Lord and His...
Hebrews 2:4 - 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....
Hebrews 2:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

II. (1-4) These verses must be closely joined with the first chapter. Before advancing to the next step in his argument, the writer pauses to enforce the duty which results from what has been alre...
Hebrews 2:4 - 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...
Hebrews 2:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

The Author of Our Salvation Hebrews 2:1-9 Drifting away , Hebrews 2:1-4 . The r.v. gives this solemn rendering. Unless we watch, the strong currents of the world will drift us away from God'...
Hebrews 2:4 - 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...
Hebrews 2:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(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. (2) For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgr...
Hebrews 2:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

God also bearing them witness ,.... The apostles of Christ; God testifying to their mission and commission, and the truth of the doctrine they preached: both with signs and wonders, and with diver...
Hebrews 2:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

God also bearing them witness, both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost, according to his own will? Ver. 4. And with divers miracles ] Whereby, as by t...
Hebrews 2:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For if the word spoken by angels The law delivered by their ministry. It is nowhere affirmed that the law was given by angels, but that the people received it, εις διαταγας αγγελων, by the dispo...
Hebrews 2:4 - 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...
Hebrews 2:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Danger of Neglect. A. D. 62. 1 Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the thi...
Hebrews 2:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

OLBGrk; God also bearing them witness: here is a further aggravation of the neglect of the gospel of salvation, from God's testifying to it by the works and gifts of his Holy Spirit: such sin grie...
Hebrews 2:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE HIGHER RESPONSIBILITIES OF HIGHER REVELATIONS CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES THE rhetorical character of the epistle is indicated in the hortatory passages that are so freely inserted. The e...
Hebrews 2:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Hebrews 1:5 ; Hebrews 2:4 . Why does the Apostle speak about the angels? He has shown from Psalm ii., from Psalm xcvii., from 2 Sam. vii., from Psalm cx., most clearly that the man Jesus is non...
Hebrews 2:4 - 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. We have heard them; do not let us forget them. Let them...
Hebrews 2:4 - 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...
Hebrews 2:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Give the more earnest heed. --This exhortation reveals the purpose of the foregoing comparison between Christ and the angels. It is to establish Christ’s superior claim to be heard when He speaks...
Hebrews 2:4 - 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...
Hebrews 2:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Need of Cheerful Obedience to Christ. The excellence of the Gospel-message:
Hebrews 2:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Corinthians 12:4-11 ; Acts 14:3 ; Acts 19:11 ; Acts 19:12 ; Acts 2:32 ; Acts 2:33 ; Acts 3:15 ; Acts 3:16 ; Acts 4:10 ; Daniel 4:35 ; Ephesians 1:5 ; Ephesians 1:9 ; Ephesians 4:8-11 ;...
Hebrews 2:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

By signs and wonders — While he lived. And various miracles and distributions of the Holy Ghost — Miraculous gifts, distributed after his exaltation. According to his will — Not theirs who received...

Hebrews 2:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hebrews 2:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Hebrews 2:4 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hebrews 2:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Hebrews 2:4 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Hebrews 2:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Hebrews 2:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Hebrews 2:4 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Hebrews 2:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Hebrews 2:4 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Hebrews 2:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Hebrews 2:4 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hebrews 2:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Hebrews 2:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Hebrews 2:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Hebrews 2:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hebrews 2:4 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Hebrews 2:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Hebrews 2:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hebrews 2:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Hebrews 2:4 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Hebrews 2:4 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Hebrews 2:4 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Hebrews 2:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

Hebrews 2:4 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Hebrews 2:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Hebrews 2:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Hebrews 2:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes