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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 13:9 - 13:9
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about - rather, as oldest manuscripts read, “carried aside”; namely, compare Eph 4:14.
divers - differing from the one faith in the one and the same Jesus Christ, as taught by them who had the rule over you (Heb 13:7).
strange - foreign to the truth.
doctrines - “teachings.”
established with grace; not with meats - not with observances of Jewish distinctions between clean and unclean meats, to which ascetic Judaizers added in Christian times the rejection of some meats, and the use of others: noticed also by Paul in 1Co 8:8, 1Co 8:13; 1Co 6:13; Rom 14:17, an exact parallel to this verse: these are some of the “divers and strange doctrines” of the previous sentence. Christ’s body offered once for all for us, is our true spiritual “meat” to “eat” (Heb 13:10), “the stay and the staff of bread” (Isa 3:1), the mean of all “grace.”
which have not profited - Greek, “in which they who walked were not profited”; namely, in respect to justification, perfect cleansing of the conscience, and sanctification. Compare on “walked,” Act 21:21; namely, with superstitious scrupulosity, as though the worship of God in itself consisted in such legal observances.