hebrews-12:2

Scofield's Reference Notes - Hebrews 12:2

author leader, or, originator. See margin ref., Hebrews 2:10. (See Scofield "Hebrews 2:10- :") . read more

Spurgeon's Verse Expositions of the Bible - Hebrews 12:2

The Shameful Sufferer A Sermon (No. 236) Delivered on Sabbath Morning, January 30th, 1859, by the REV. C.H. SPURGEON At the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. "Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is now set down at the right hand of the throne of God."-- Hebrews 12:2 OH what shall I do, my Saviour to praise?" Where shall language be found which shall describe his matchless, his unparalleled love towards the children of men. Upon any ordinary... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 12:1-29

Shall we turn now to Hebrews, chapter 12.Wherefore, seeing we are also compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses ( Hebrews 12:1 ),What this does not mean is that the Old Testament saints, which are spoken of in chapter 11, are sitting there in heaven watching the activities on the earth. It doesn't mean that they are just watching us to see how we are going to react and respond and we've got this big gallery up here of Old Testament saints. It does mean that their life of faith and... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 12:1-29

Hebrews 12:1 . Wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses. Confessors and martyrs of the ancient church are here supposed to be the spectators of our course, and we are here called upon to follow these veterans of the faith. Their number is such that they are said to be a cloud, like the assembled multitudes seen on special occasions to witness some extraordinary spectacle. Nor is it the celestial host only that are interested in this contest; we are... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 12:1-2

Hebrews 12:1-2Compassed about with so great a cloudGreat men:The witnesses that God has set before the eyes of men are twofold, the witness of greatness and the witness of goodness, the witness of the hero and the witness of the saint.To name these two together is at once to put the one far above the other. Without any argument we feel at once that the hero and the saint belong to different spheres, the hero to nature, the saint to religion; the hero to the earth, the saint to heaven if we... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Hebrews 12:2

2 Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Ver. 2. Looking unto Jesus ] Gr. αφορωντες , looking off those things that may either divert or discourage, and looking unto Jesus with loving and longing looks. A Persian lady being at the marriage of Cyrus, and asked how she liked the bridegroom? How? said she; I know not. I saw nobody but mine own... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Hebrews 12:2

Looking: Hebrews 12:3, Hebrews 9:28, Isaiah 8:17, Isaiah 31:1, Isaiah 45:22, Micah 7:7, Zechariah 12:10, John 1:29, John 6:40, John 8:56, Philippians 3:20, 2 Timothy 4:8, Titus 2:13, 1 John 1:1-Leviticus :, Jude 1:21 the author: or, the beginner, Hebrews 2:10, Mark 9:24, Luke 17:5, Acts 5:31,*Gr: Revelation 1:8, Revelation 1:11, Revelation 1:17, Revelation 2:8 finisher: Hebrews 7:19, Hebrews 10:14,*Gr: Psalms 138:8, 1 Corinthians 1:7, 1 Corinthians 1:8, Philippians 1:6 for: Hebrews 2:7-1... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 12:2

Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.Looking — From all other things.To Jesus — As the wounded Israelites to the brazen serpent. Our crucified Lord was prefigured by the lifting up of this; our guilt, by the stings of the fiery serpents; and our faith, by their looking up to the miraculous remedy.The author and finisher of our faith — Who... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 12:2

2. Looking unto Mainly as our example, as the next verse shows. Jesus ran the most arduous race of all, and attained the loftiest final seat of all. So that, while we are looking unto him, he is looking down upon us, a most divine witness and spectator of our race. The heroes of chap. xi, we, and Jesus, are all in the same inclusion, Jesus being supreme exemplar and real founder of the whole. Author… finisher… our faith The word our, as is indicated by the italics, is not in... read more