You have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood in your striving against sin; and you have forgotten the exhortation which is addressed to you as sons, “MY SON, DO NOT REGARD LIGHTLY THE DISCIPLINE OF THE LORD, NOR FAINT WHEN YOU ARE REPROVED BY HIM; FOR THOSE WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE DISCIPLINES, AND HE SCOURGES EVERY SON WHOM HE RECEIVES.” It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline? But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons. Furthermore, we had earthly fathers to discipline us, and we respected them; shall we not much rather be subject to the Father of spirits, and live? For they disciplined us for a short time as seemed best to them, but He disciplines us for our good, so that we may share His holiness. All discipline for the moment seems not to be joyful, but sorrowful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness.
you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood - "None of the readers of this book had yet been martyred." (Ryrie)
v 5 - "When the time of chastising, the Great Tribulation, takes place, Hebrews mus suffer even unto blood, even unto death of a martyr. To despise what was taking place would be evidence of rebellion rather than submission, and that would be unacceptable. To faint during what was taking place would be evidence of not enduring to the end, and that would be unacceptable as well. Hebrews 2:3: 'How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;' The answer to the rhetorical question of Hebrews 2:3 has been confirmed in this passage; there is no escape and the chastening is to be endured, not despised." (McLean)
v 8 - "In the Old Testament, Israel was taught to regard any visitation of God's disciplinary measures such as drought and famine or enemy attack, as a sign of His displeasure with His people because of their sins. Hence, these Hebrews in the first-century Church would naturally regard this persecution in the same light. The writer hastens to assure them that instead of this chastening being an indication that they were not right with God, it was a proof of their sonship, for all sons are partakers of chastening. Those among them who would not submit to this chastening were, therefore, unsaved." (Wuest)
vss 5-11 - "In these verses the writer discusses why Christians are disciplined. (1) It is part of the educational process by which a believer is fitted to shared God's holiness (v 10). (2) It is proof of a genuine love relationship between the heavenly Father and His children (vs 6, 8). (3) It helps train them to be obedient (v 9). (4) It produces the fruit of righteousness in their lives (v 11). For additional teaching on this subject, see the book of Job; Rom 8:18; 2 Cor 1:3-4; 4:16-17; 12:7-9; Phil 1:29; 2 Tim 3:12." (Ryrie)
you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding blood - "None of the readers of this book had yet been martyred." (Ryrie)
v 5 - "When the time of chastising, the Great Tribulation, takes place, Hebrews mus suffer even unto blood, even unto death of a martyr. To despise what was taking place would be evidence of rebellion rather than submission, and that would be unacceptable. To faint during what was taking place would be evidence of not enduring to the end, and that would be unacceptable as well. Hebrews 2:3: 'How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;' The answer to the rhetorical question of Hebrews 2:3 has been confirmed in this passage; there is no escape and the chastening is to be endured, not despised." (McLean)
v 8 - "In the Old Testament, Israel was taught to regard any visitation of God's disciplinary measures such as drought and famine or enemy attack, as a sign of His displeasure with His people because of their sins. Hence, these Hebrews in the first-century Church would naturally regard this persecution in the same light. The writer hastens to assure them that instead of this chastening being an indication that they were not right with God, it was a proof of their sonship, for all sons are partakers of chastening. Those among them who would not submit to this chastening were, therefore, unsaved." (Wuest)
vss 5-11 - "In these verses the writer discusses why Christians are disciplined. (1) It is part of the educational process by which a believer is fitted to shared God's holiness (v 10). (2) It is proof of a genuine love relationship between the heavenly Father and His children (vs 6, 8). (3) It helps train them to be obedient (v 9). (4) It produces the fruit of righteousness in their lives (v 11). For additional teaching on this subject, see the book of Job; Rom 8:18; 2 Cor 1:3-4; 4:16-17; 12:7-9; Phil 1:29; 2 Tim 3:12." (Ryrie)
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