In the days of his flesh,— During the time he was in the flesh; made lower than the angels, as man, that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, ch. Hebrews 2:14. The allusion in the next clause is to the prayers of our Saviour, which he made in the garden to God, to remove that cup from him. See on Matthew 26:39. Luke 22:42. There is no mention any where of our Saviour's tears but in this place, except upon his raising Lazarus from the dead, John 11:35 and on his last view of Jerusalem, Luke 19:41. See also Matthew 27:50. The last clause has been variously interpreted. The words απο της ευλαβειας, mean not in that he feared, but, as it is in the Vulgate, pro reverentia; by reason of that reverence and submission which was paid by the Son to his Father. So our margin has it, for his piety. The sense is, "That Christ, when he prayed to his heavenly Fatherin the manner he did, by reason of that reverential regard he had to his Father in all his conduct, was heard." Thus Sykes, with whom Heylin, Bishop Fell, and many others agree; and I agree with them. See ch. Hebrews 12:28. However, Whitby, whom Doddridge and others follow, understands it, that he was heard in being delivered from that which he particularly feared; and which threw him into such an agony in the garden, that he sweat drops of blood. There is another method of interpreting this, which is that followed by the Syriac version; namely, by joining the words 'απο της ευλαβειας with the 8th verse:—and was heard [so as to have his request granted; Hebrews 5:8 though he was a Son, yet through his piety he learned obedience from what he suffered.
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Hebrews 5:7
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in thatb he feared;