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Hebrews 4:12-16
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| Historical References, Commentary and
Comparative Texts:
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Chapter IX,
Adversus Judaeos,
Tertullian
(c. 198) |
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Chapter III,
The Prescription of Heretics,
Tertullian
(c. 200) |
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II.VI.4,
First Principles (De Principiis),
Origen.
(c.225) |
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I.3,
I.23,
I.36,
Commentary on the Gospel of John,
Origen.
(c.228) |
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VIII.XXXIV,
Against Celsus,
Origen (c. 246) |
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Statement of Faith,
Athanasius of
Alexandria, c. 330. |
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Part 31,
On the Incarnation of the Word,
Athanasius of Alexandria, c. 318. |
| From the Geneva Notes.
 | "Lest he appear by the great
glory of our High Priest, to prevent us from going to him, he adds
after, that he is nonetheless our brother indeed, (as he proved
before) and that he counts all our miseries as his own, to call us
boldly to him." |
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| From
Matthew Henry's
Commentary.
| "In the sight of Infinite
Wisdom, it was needful that the Saviour of men should be one who has
the fellow-feeling which no being but a fellow-creature could
possibly have; and therefore it was necessary he should actual
experience of all the effects of sin that could be separated from
its actual guilt." |
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| From
Wesley's Notes.
| "It is God whose word is thus
"powerful:" it is God in whose sight every creature is
manifest; and of this his word, working on the conscience, gives the
fullest conviction." |
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| From the
Commentary on the Whole Bible
(Jamieson, Fausset and Brown, 1871).
| "PHILO
similarly speaks of "God passing between the parts of Abraham's
sacrifices (Ge 15:17, where, however, it is a 'burning lamp' that
passed between the pieces) with His word, which is the cutter of all
things: which sword, being sharpened to the utmost keenness, never
ceases to divide all sensible things, and even things not
perceptible to sense or physically divisible, but perceptible and
divisible by the word."" |
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| From
The People's
New Testament, B.W. Johnson, 1891.
| "A high priest must be in
sympathy with those for whom he ministers." |
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| Contemporary Commentary, Studies, and Exegesis:
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"First
Thoughts on Year B Epistle Passages in the Lectionary:
Pentecost 19," William
Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia.
| "Compassion and kindness, grace and
mercy, are there when we face our times of need. This is not so much about
when we fail, as it is when we face hard times and are confronted with
temptations which threaten to overwhelm us." |
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Comments
(commentary) and
Clippings
(technical notes for in-depth study), Chris Haslam, Anglican
Diocese of Montreal. |
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Hebrews 4:9-16, Wandering But Not Lost,
Stanley N. Olson, Word & World Texts in Context, Luther
Northwestern Theological Seminary, 1985. |
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"Confirming Erik," Stephen Paul Bouman, The Christian Century,
2003. |
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"The Word of
God,"
"Jesus the Great High Priest,"
Rev. Bryan Findlayson, Lectionary Bible
Studies and Sermons, Pumpkin Cottage Ministry Resources. Includes detailed
textual notes.
| "So then, in the face of our frail
humanity, constantly undermining our reliance on Jesus, hold firm to the
thread of faith. It is enough." |
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| "Christ,
Our High Priest in Heaven," Richard B. Gaffin, Jr., in Kerux:
The Online Journal of Biblical Theology (Reformed).
| "It doesn't matter how
complicated, how desperate, perhaps even hopeless your life has
become. No matter how overwhelmed you may feel by your problems, if
your trust is in Jesus Christ, you can be sure that he is praying
for you now and through that prayer he will provide for you the
resources to bring you relief or enable you to carry on." |
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| Articles & Background:
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"Exploring a Life of Prayer," Jane E. Vennard, Iliff School of Theology.
At Religion OnLine.
| "When we recognize the unity of body
and spirit, the body can become a path to prayer." |
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"Learning
to Pray," an interview with Roberta C. Biondi. By John C. Purdy at
Religion OnLine.
| "I ask everybody to include three
elements in their prayer. One is some portion of scripture every day...
The other part of their prayer is conversation with God in which they
really speak their minds... The third part of their prayer is silence:
just sitting in God's presence without saying anything or having any
expectations of God or of themselves. I call it kitchen table prayer. Just
spending time with God as we spend time with a friend without tallking." |
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"On
Providence and Prayer," Jack A. Keller. At
Religion OnLine.
| "Is there any way to understand prayer
that can (1) salvage the essential insight in the evangelical view of
providence that God cares for persons and peoples and actively seeks our
well-being, and (2) escape the ruin that the fact of widespread genuine
evil has brought upon traditional formulations of providence?" |
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| "We
Would See Jesus," Douglas John Hall at The Living Pulpit.
| "Some of our images of Christ
do not benefit God's
beloved world." |
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| "Empathy
and the New Testament," L. Ann Jervis, McMaster
Journal of Theology and Ministry, 2000.
| "Empathy connotes not just
listening to another’s story but also participating in the
other’s story, so that the listener not only hears and believes
the facts of another’s experience, but actually feels the
experience at some level. To have empathy with another is not
simply to believe what that person says but to feel along with that
person, to participate in that person’s experience.
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| "On
Being Known," Charles M. Wood, Perkins School of Theology. Theology
Today, 1987.
| "As portrayed by this text-and
here this text is rightly representative of the tenor of scripture
as a whole-the word of God does not define reality, heteronomously,
imposing a view of self and world which the hearer is directed to
accept. Nor is the word of God something that simply confirms the
hearer's prior attitudes and beliefs. Rather, the word provides a
context within which the truth of things becomes manifest." |
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| "A Preliminary
Exegesis of Hebrews 4:15 with a View Toward Solving the Peccability/Impeccability
Issue," Daniel B. Wallace, Dallas Theological Seminary.
| "It is my conviction, based on
several strands of evidence seen throughout the New Testament, that
Jesus Christ was incapable of sinning (thus, he was impeccable). But
Heb 4:15 must be dealt with if this view is to be maintained." |
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| Bamberger, Henry,
"New Light on the High Priest," Journal of Ecumenical Studies,
1981.
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| Bouman, Stephen Paul,
"Confirming Erik," The Christian Century, 2003.
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| Cowdery, Ann Hoch, "Hebrews 4:1-13," Interpretation, 1994.
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| Forney, David,
"Quieting the Echoes of Sin," Journal for Preachers, 2002.
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| Olson, Stanley N.,
"Wandering But Not Lost," Word & World, 1985. (Section on this text
begins on page 429.)
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| Rowell, J.B.,
"Our Great High Priest," Bibliotheca Sacra, 1961.
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| Smillie, Gene R., "'HO
LOGOS TOU THEOU' in Hebrews 4:12-13," Novum Testamentum, 2004.
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| Smillie, Gene R.,
"'The Other LOGOS' at the End of Heb. 4:13," Novum Testamentum,
2005.
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| Smothers, Thomas G.,
"A Superior Model: Hebrews 1:1-4:13," Review and Expositor, 1985.
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| Songer, Harold S.,
"A Superior Priesthood: Hebrews 4:14-7:28," Review and Expositor,
1985.
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| Wood, Charles M.,
"On Being Known," Theology Today, 1987.
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