If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
In Hebrews 12:7-8 the need of "chastening;" in Hebrews 12:9 the duty of those to whom it is administered.
If. 'Aleph (') A Delta f, Vulgate, read х eis (G1519) for ei (G1487)] 'With a view to chastening (i:e., since God's chastisement is with a view to disciplinary amelioration), endure patiently.'
Dealeth with you, х prosferetai (G4374)] - 'beareth Himself toward you' in the very act of chastening.
What son is he - in ordinary life? Much more God as to His sons (Isaiah 48:10; Acts 14:22). The most eminent saints were the most afflicted. God leads them by a way they know not (Isaiah 42:16). We too much look at trial by itself, instead of in connection with the whole plan of our salvation; as if a traveler were to complain of the roughness of one turn, without considering that it led him into green pastures, on the direct road to the city of habitation. The New Testament alone uses the Greek 'education' х paideia (G3809)] to express 'discipline' of a child by a wise father.