Hebräer 12:12

12 Darum "richtet auf die erschlafften Hände und die gelähmten Knie",

Hebräer 12:12 Meaning and Commentary

Ver. 12 Wherefore lift up the hands which hang down
These words may be considered as spoken to the Hebrews, with respect to themselves; accordingly, the Syriac version reads, "your hands", and "your knees"; who were sluggish, and inactive in prayer, in hearing the word, in attendance on ordinances, in holding fast their profession, and in the performance of those things which adorn it; they were weary and fatigued with weights and burdens of sins and afflictions; and were faint, fearful, and timorous, through distrust of the promised good, because of their persecutions, being in present distress, and in a view of approaching danger, with which they might be surprised, as well as affected with their present afflictions: and then the exhortation to "lift up the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees", is to be active in every duty; to be courageous against every enemy: to bear patiently every burden; to take heart, and be of good cheer under every afflictive providence: or else they may be considered as an exhortation to them with respect to others, which seems to be most agreeable to ( Isaiah 35:3 ) from whence they are taken; and then what is signified in them is done by sympathizing with persons in distress; by speaking comfortably to them, and by bearing their burdens.

Hebräer 12:12 In-Context

10 Denn jene freilich züchtigten uns für wenige Tage nach ihrem Gutdünken, er aber zum Nutzen, damit wir seiner Heiligkeit teilhaftig werden.

11 Alle Züchtigung aber scheint für die Gegenwart nicht ein Gegenstand der Freude, sondern der Traurigkeit zu sein; hernach aber gibt sie die friedsame Frucht der Gerechtigkeit denen, die durch sie geübt sind.

12 Darum "richtet auf die erschlafften Hände und die gelähmten Knie",

13 und "machet gerade Bahn für eure Füße!", auf daß nicht das Lahme vom Wege abgewandt, sondern vielmehr geheilt werde.

14 Jaget dem Frieden nach mit allen und der Heiligkeit, ohne welche niemand den Herrn schauen wird;