Hebreus 12:7

7 Suportem as dificuldades, recebendo-as como disciplina; Deus os trata como filhos. Ora, qual o filho que não é disciplinado por seu pai?

Hebreus 12:7 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 12:7

If ye endure chastening
In faith, with patience, with courage and constancy, with humility and reverence: there are many things which may encourage and animate the saints to endure it in such a manner; as that it is but a chastening, and the chastening of a father; it should be considered from whence it comes, and for what ends; that it comes from the Lord, and is for his glory, and their good; the example of Christ, and of other saints, should excite unto it. The Jews have a saying ^F17, that

``the doctrine of chastisements is silence;''

that is, they are to be patiently bore, and not murmured at. The Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions, read the words as an exhortation; the former of these renders it, "persevere in discipline"; the Syriac version, "endure correction"; the Arabic version, "be ye patient in chastisement"; and the Ethiopic version, "endure your chastening": but then the word, "for", should be supplied in the next clause, as it is in the Syriac and Ethiopic versions, making that to be a reason, enforcing this,

for God dealeth with you as with sons:
chastening is owning of them for his children, and it discovers them to be so, and shows that they continue such; he does not chasten them but when it is necessary; and whenever he does, it is in love and mercy, and for good, and in the best time, seasonably, and in measure:

for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?
no one can be named, not the Son of God himself; he had the chastisement of our peace upon him; nor the more eminent among the children of God, as Abraham, David, and others; nor any in any catalogue, or list of them, such as in the preceding chapter; not one in any age or period of time whatever, in any bodies, societies, or communities of them, either under the Old or New Testament.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 62. 1.

Hebreus 12:7 In-Context

5 Vocês se esqueceram da palavra de ânimo que ele dirige a vocês como a filhos:“Meu filho, não despreze a disciplina do Senhornem se magoe com a sua repreensão,

6 pois o Senhor disciplina a quem ama,e castiga todo aquele a quem aceita como filho”.

7 Suportem as dificuldades, recebendo-as como disciplina; Deus os trata como filhos. Ora, qual o filho que não é disciplinado por seu pai?

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!