17For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.
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Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; …
Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. …
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.
For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-17)Here the apostle presses the exhortation to patience and perseverance by an argument taken from the gentle measure and gracious nature of those sufferings which the believing Hebrews endured in their Christian course. I. From the gentle and moderate degree and measure of their sufferings: You have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin , Heb. 12:4. Observe, 1. He owns that they had suff…
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