Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
Ver. 8. Yet learned he obedience] He came to know by experience what a hard matter it was thus to obey God. Schola crucis, schola lucis. Gideon, by threshing the men of Succoth, taught them, Judges 8:7,16. God's chastisements are our advertisements, παθηματα μαθηματα. Nocumenta documenta. See my Treatise on Rev. iii., p. 145.