Hebrews 2:10-18

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• Reading the Text:
  • NRSV (with link to Anglicized NRSV) at Oremus Bible Browser.
  • The Bible Gateway: NIV, NASB, CEV, The Message, KJV, etc.
  • The Blue Letter Bible -  KJV, alternate versions, Greek text with concordance, commentaries.
  • The World Wide Study Bible includes commentary, exposition and sermons.
• Historical References, Commentary and Comparative Texts:
  • Comparative World Scriptures from United Communities of Spirit: The Human Person.
  • Chapter XI, Exhortation to the Greeks, Clement of Alexandria (c 200)
  • Chapter XII, Exhortation to Chastity, Tertullian (c. 210)
  • Part 10, On the Incarnation of the Word, Athanasius of Alexandria, c. 318.
  • From the Geneva Notes.
    • "He proves moreover by other arguments why it suited the Son of God who is true God (as he proved a little before) to become man nonetheless, subject to all miseries, with the exception of sin."
  • From Matthew Henry's Commentary.
    • "Whatever the proud, carnal, and unbelieving may imagine or object, the spiritual mind will see peculiar glory in the cross of Christ, and be satisfied that it became Him, who in all things displays his own perfections in bringing many sons to glory, to make the Author of their salvation perfect through sufferings."
  • From Wesley's Notes.
    • "Various afflictions indeed may be made subservient to this; and so far as they are blessed to the weaning us from sin, and causing our affections to be set on things above, so far they do indirectly help on our sanctification."
  • From the Commentary on the Whole Bible (Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
    • "'He who suffers for another, not only benefits him, but becomes himself the brighter and more perfect' [CHRYSOSTOM]."
  • From The People's New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
    • "To be our high priest he must be in full sympathy with us, having experienced our trials and our sufferings."
• Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
  • "First Thoughts on Year A Epistle Passages in the Lectionary: Christmas 1," William Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
    • "The author ... brings us back from a way of thinking about Christ or God which could remain obsessed with images of power and glory and remoteness. God is engaged with us where we are - and wherever we are on the journey."
  • Hebrews 2:10-18, Christmas 1A, Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.
  • "The Son of Man: Saviour and High Priest," Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed textual notes.
  • "Not about Angels, You Know," Expository Essay, Dr. William R. Long. Part 2.
    • "Acquaintance with suffering gives us a kind of skepticism about grand human plans and transformative ideas."
  • "Higher Than the Angels," Larry Broding's Word-Sunday.Com: A Catholic Resource for This Sunday's Gospel.
    • "How do you see you place before God? How has your faith in Christ changed your outlook? How has the example of Jesus encouraged you?"
  • Hebrews 2:14-18, Presentation of our Lord, Comments (commentary) and Clippings (technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican Diocese of Montreal.

• Articles & Background:
• Articles in ATLAS Journals. (Direct link when you are subscribed and logged in to ATLASerials online collection of Religion and Theology Journals.):
  • Borchert, Gerald L., "A Superior Book: Hebrews," Review and Expositor, 1985.
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  • Brawley, Robert L., "Discoursive Structure and the Unseen in Hebrews 2:8 and 11:1: A Neglected Aspect of the Context," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1993.
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  • Gray, Patrick, "Brotherly Love and the High Priest Christology of Hebrews," Journal of Biblical Literature, 2003.
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  • Gudorf, Michael E., "Through a Classical Lens: Hebrews 2:16," Journal of Biblical Literature, 2000.
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  • Harmon, Steven, "Between Text & Sermon: Hebrews 2:10-18," Interpretation, 2005.
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  • Miller, Donald G., "Why God Became Man: From Text to Sermon on Hebrews 2:5-18," Interpretation, 1969.
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  • Mitchell, Alan C., SJ, "The Use of PREPEIN and Rhetorical Propriety in Hebrews 2:10," Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 1992.
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  • Scott, J. Julius, Jr., "ARCHEGOS in the Salvation History of the Epistle of the Hebrews," Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, 1986.
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  • Smothers, Thomas G., "A Superior Model: Hebrews 1:1-4:13," Review and Expositor, 1985.
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  • Still, Todd D., "CHRISTOS as PISTOS: The Faith(fulness) of Jesus in the Epistle to the Hebrews," The Catholic Biblical Quarterly, 2007.
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  • Williamson, Clark M., "Anti-Judaism in Hebrews?" Interpretation, 2003. (See also, "Hebrews," issue focus of Interpretation, 2003.)
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• Reviews:
• Sermons:
  • "The Destruction of Death," Paul Tillich, from The Shaking of the Foundations, 1955. At Religion Online.
    • "The darkness into which the light of Christmas shines is above all the darkness of death. The threat of death, which shadows the whole road of our life, is the dark background of the Advent expectation of mankind. Death is not merely the scissors which cuts the thread of our life, as a famous ancient symbol indicates. It is rather one of those threads which are woven into the design of our existence, from its very beginning to its end."
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• Hymns and Music:
  • Hymns with Scripture Allusions: Hebrews 2:10, 14, 16. The Cyber Hymnal.
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