Hebreos 12:10

10 Porque ellos nos disciplinaban por pocos días como les parecía, pero El nos disciplina para nuestro bien, para que participemos de su santidad.

Hebreos 12:10 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 12:10

For they verily for a few days chastened us
Which respects not the minority of children, during which time they are under the correction of parents, and which is but a few days; nor the short life of parents; but rather the end which parents have in chastening their children, which is their temporal good, and which lasts but for a few days; which sense the opposition in the latter part of the text requires: and this they do

after their own pleasure:
not to please and delight themselves in the pains and cries of their children, which would be brutish and inhuman; though corrections are too often given to gratify the passions; nor merely in an arbitrary way, and when they please; but the sense is, they correct as seems good unto them; in the best way and manner; to the best of their judgments, which are fallible:

but he for our profit;
saints are no losers by afflictions; they lose nothing but their dross and tin; they do not lose the love of God; nor their interest in the covenant of grace; nor the presence of God; nor grace in their own hearts; nor spiritual peace and comfort: on the contrary, they are real gainers by them; their graces gain by them fresh lustre and glory; they obtain a greater degree of spiritual knowledge; and a larger stock of experience; and are hereby restored to their former state, duty, and zeal; and become more conformable to Christ; yea, their afflictions conduce to their future glory; many are the profits arising from them. The Alexandrian copy reads in the plural number, "profits": particularly God's end in chastening of his children is,

that we might be partakers of his holiness;
not the essential holiness of God, which is incommunicable; but a communicative holiness of his, which it is his determining will his people should have: it comes from him, from whom every good and perfect gift does; it is in Christ for them, and is received out of his fulness; and is wrought in them by the Spirit; and it bears a resemblance to the divine nature: now men are naturally destitute of this holiness; they have it not by nature, but by participation; as God's gift; and they first partake of it in regeneration; and here an increase of it is designed, a gradual participation of it; and it may include perfect holiness in heaven: afflictions are designed as means to bring persons to this end; to bring them to a sense of sin, an acknowledgment of it, an aversion to it, and to a view of pardon of it; to purge it away; to wean the saints from this world; to increase their grace, and lead them on to a perfect state of glory, where there will be no more sin, and no more sorrow.

Hebreos 12:10 In-Context

8 Pero si estáis sin disciplina, de la cual todos han sido hechos participantes, entonces sois hijos ilegítimos y no hijos verdaderos.

9 Además, tuvimos padres terrenales para disciplinarnos, y los respetábamos, ¿con cuánta más razón no estaremos sujetos al Padre de nuestros espíritus, y viviremos?

10 Porque ellos nos disciplinaban por pocos días como les parecía, pero El nos disciplina para nuestro bien, para que participemos de su santidad.

11 Al presente ninguna disciplina parece ser causa de gozo, sino de tristeza; sin embargo, a los que han sido ejercitados por medio de ella, les da después fruto apacible de justicia.

12 Por tanto, fortaleced las manos débiles y las rodillas que flaquean,