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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 12:9 - 12:9
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fathers ... which corrected us - rather as Greek, “We had the fathers of our flesh as correctors.”
subjection - See the punishment of insubordination, Deu 21:18.
Father of spirits - contrasted with “the fathers of our flesh.” “Generation by men is carnal, by God is spiritual” [Bengel]. As “Father of spirits,” He is both the Originator, and the Providential and Gracious Sustainer, at once of animal and spiritual life. Compare “and LIVE,” namely, spiritually; also Heb 12:10, “that we might be partakers of His holiness” (2Pe 1:4). God is a spirit Himself, and the Creator of spirits like Himself, in contrast to men who are flesh, and the progenitors of flesh (Joh 3:6). Jesus our pattern “learned obedience” experimentally by suffering (Heb 5:8).
and live - and so, thereby live spiritually and eternally.