Hebreus 12:10

10 Nossos pais nos disciplinavam por curto período, segundo lhes parecia melhor; mas Deus nos disciplina para o nosso bem, para que participemos da sua santidade.

Hebreus 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.

Hebreus 12:10 In-Context

8 Se vocês não são disciplinados, e a disciplina é para todos os filhos, então vocês não são filhos legítimos, mas sim ilegítimos.

9 Além disso, tínhamos pais humanos que nos disciplinavam e nós os respeitávamos. Quanto mais devemos submeter-nos ao Pai dos espíritos, para assim vivermos!

10 Nossos pais nos disciplinavam por curto período, segundo lhes parecia melhor; mas Deus nos disciplina para o nosso bem, para que participemos da sua santidade.

11 Nenhuma disciplina parece ser motivo de alegria no momento, mas sim de tristeza. Mais tarde, porém, produz fruto de justiça e paz para aqueles que por ela foram exercitados.

12 Portanto, fortaleçam as mãos enfraquecidas e os joelhos vacilantes.