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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 12:8 - 12:8
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if ye be without - excluded from participation in chastisement, and wishing to be so.
all - all sons: all the worthies enumerated in the eleventh chapter: all the witnesses (Heb 12:1).
are - Greek, “have been made.”
then are ye bastards - of whom their fathers take no care whether they are educated or not; whereas every right-minded father is concerned for the moral well-being of his legitimate son. “Since then not to be chastised is a mark of bastardy, we ought [not to refuse, but] rejoice in chastisement, as a mark of our genuine sonship” [Chrysostom].