32But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were illuminated, ye endured a great fight of afflictions;
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For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: …
Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? …
Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin.
Look to yourselves, that we lose not those things which we have wrought, but that we receive a full reward.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 19-39)I. Here the apostle sets forth the dignities of the gospel state. It is fit that believers should know the honours and privileges that Christ has procured for them, that, while they take the comfort, they may give him the glory of all. The privileges are, 1. Boldness to enter into the holiest. They have access to God, light to direct them, liberty of spirit and of speech to conform to the directio…
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