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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 13:13 - 13:13
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therefore - This “therefore” breathes the deliberate fortitude of believers [Bengel].
without the camp - “outside the legal polity” [Theodoret] of Judaism (compare Heb 13:11) “Faith considers Jerusalem itself as a camp, not a city” [Bengel]. He contrasts with the Jews, who serve an earthly sanctuary, the Christians to whom the altar in heaven stands open, while it is closed against the Jews. As Jesus suffered without the gate, so spiritually must those who desire to belong to Him, withdraw from the earthly Jerusalem and its sanctuary, as from this world in general. There is a reference to Exo 33:7, when the tabernacle was moved without the camp, which had become polluted by the people’s idolatry of the golden calves; so that “every one who sought the Lord went out unto the tabernacle of the congregation (as Moses called the tabernacle outside the camp), which was without the camp”; a lively type of what the Hebrews should do, namely, come out of the carnal worship of the earthly Jerusalem to worship God in Christ in spirit, and of what we all ought to do, namely, come out from all carnalism, worldly formalism, and mere sensuous worship, and know Jesus in His spiritual power apart from worldliness, seeing that “we have no continuing city” (Heb 13:14).
bearing - as Simon of Cyrene did.
his reproach - the reproach which He bare, and which all His people bear with Him.