Hebrews 5:2
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What does Hebrews 5:2 mean?
Who can have compassion on the ignorant
Who have committed sins of ignorance, and bring their sacrifices
for them; these he does not insult and upbraid, nor break out
into anger and indignation against; but pities them, and
sympathizes with them; has a just measure of compassion suitable
to their condition, and bears with them with great moderation and
temper:
and on them that are out of the way;
of God's commandments; who are like sheep going astray, and turn
to their own way; who transgress the law of God, and err from it;
perhaps such who sin knowingly and wilfully, and through
infirmity, are meant:
for that he himself also is compassed with
infirmity;
not of body only, but of mind, sinful infirmity; he had much of
it, it beset him all around; he was "clothed" with it, as the
Syriac version renders it; as Joshua the high priest was with
filthy garments, ( Zechariah
3:3 ) .
