Hebreeën 2:4

4 God bovendien medegetuigende door tekenen, en wonderen, en menigerlei krachten en bedelingen des Heiligen Geestes, naar Zijn wil.

Hebreeën 2:4 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 2:4

God also bearing them witness
The apostles of Christ; God testifying to their mission and commission, and the truth of the doctrine they preached:

both with signs and wonders, and with divers miracles;
such as taking up serpents without hurt, healing the sick, causing the lame to walk, and raising the dead, and casting out devils, and the like; all which were for the confirmation of the Gospel preached by them: a sign, wonder, or miracle, for these signify the same thing, is a marvellous work done before men, by the power of God, to confirm a divine truth; God is the sole author of miracles; and they were done in the first ages of Christianity, when they were necessary, to give evidence of the truth of it, and to establish men in it; and these were various, as before observed: and gifts of the Holy Ghost; such as besides gifts of healing and working miracles, gifts of foretelling things to come, discerning of spirits, speaking with divers kinds of tongues, and the interpretation of tongues, ( 1 Corinthians 12:8 1 Corinthians 12:9 1 Corinthians 12:10 ) according to his own will; either according to the will of God, who bore testimony by these miracles and gifts; or according to the will of the Holy Spirit, who distributed them to men severally as he pleased, ( 1 Corinthians 12:11 ) .

Hebreeën 2:4 In-Context

2 Want indien het woord, door de engelen gesproken, vast is geweest, en alle overtreding en ongehoorzaamheid rechtvaardige vergelding ontvangen heeft;

3 Hoe zullen wij ontvlieden, indien wij op zo grote zaligheid geen acht nemen? dewelke, begonnen zijnde verkondigd te worden door de Heere, aan ons bevestigd is geworden van degenen, die Hem gehoord hebben;

4 God bovendien medegetuigende door tekenen, en wonderen, en menigerlei krachten en bedelingen des Heiligen Geestes, naar Zijn wil.

5 Want Hij heeft aan de engelen niet onderworpen de toekomende wereld, van welke wij spreken.

6 Maar iemand heeft ergens betuigd, zeggende: Wat is de mens, dat Gij zijner gedenkt, of des mensen zoon, dat Gij hem bezoekt!