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Heb 10:36. Ὑπομονῆς) The apostle, from this to Heb 10:38, gradually brings in the prophet, Hab 2:3-4, where the LXX. have Ἐὰν (ὂρασις) ὑστερήσῃ ὙΠΟΜΕΙΝΟΝ αὐτὸν, “if (the vision) tarry, WAIT for it,” ὅτι ἐρχόμενος ἥξει καὶ οὐ μή χρονίσῃ. ἐὰν ὑποστείληται, οὐκ εὐδοκεῖ ἡ ψυχή μου ἐν αὐτῷ· ὁ δὲ δίκαιός μου ἐκ πίστεως ζήσεται.-τὸ θέλημα, the will) ch. Heb 13:21.-ποιήσαντες) that whereas you have done the will of God hitherto, Heb 10:32-33, you now also may show patience, and therefore obtain the promised reward of obedience. Comp. ch. Heb 6:10-12. We must both do and suffer, 1Pe 4:19. The apostle evidently takes his arguments from the past, and recounts the proofs of their having done the will on God, Heb 10:32-33. Nevertheless, doing the will of God for the present and future is not excluded. This doing of the will of God is taken for granted in all the virtues of believers, which are reckoned up in the 11th chapter: otherwise the things which there receive praise, for example, Heb 10:33, would have been vain; comp. Mat 7:21, etc.-κομίσησθε, ye may carry off, obtain, receive) the promise, i.e. life eternal, which believers of the Old and New Testament will conjointly receive at the coming of Christ. See the following verse. The promise, life eternal, is found at ch. Heb 4:1, Heb 9:15, Heb 11:13, Heb 12:26. Individual blessedness is judicially refused to none, but the great consummation, as yet future, is difficult. There will be a great βελτίωσις, amelioration, in the future day, which ought to be esteemed much more highly than it is. Even the present flourishing condition of faith, which many so largely experience, cannot be compared with it.-τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν, the promise) חזון, Hab., quoted above.