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Heb 13:9. Διδαχαῖς, with doctrines) So Paul, Eph 4:14.-ποικίλαις, various) which differ from the one faith in the one and the same Jesus Christ. There was variety in the Levitical worship; ch. Heb 9:10.-ξέναις, strange) which differ from the faith of your ministers (τῶν ἡγουμένων). The Levitical rites were now also strange to their present faith, Heb 13:9-14; and the apostle was now forgetful of their oldness (The Old Testament). He does not therefore call them old, but strange.-μὴ παραφέρεσθε) be not carried away [Neben hin.-Not. Crit.] So παρὰ in composition, ch. Heb 2:1. The antithesis, βεβαιοῦσθαι, to be established, 1Sa 21:13 (14), ויתהלל, LXX. καὶ παρεφέρετο. Ecc 1:17, הללית Theodotion translates παραφοράς.-καλὸν γὰρ χάριτι βεβαιοῦσθαι τὴν καρδίαν, for it is good for the heart to be established with grace) A categorical sentence: χάριτι βεβαιούμεθα (κατὰ) τὴν καρδίαν, we have the heart established by grace; to which the antithesis corresponds, not with meats; but the modal expression, good, is added from the feeling of the apostle, to give a point to the admonition. So Paul, Rom 6:17, note. Καλὸν, good, beautiful (becoming), salutary: also pleasant, without strange variety; and profitable. The antithesis, have not profited.-χάριτι, with grace) grace, which becomes ours through Christ, who offered His body.-βεβαιοῦσθαι) to be established. Στηριχθηναι, to be supported, is a kindred word, just as the heart, according to the Hebrew phraseology, is supported by bread or the staff of bread; Jdg 19:5; Isa 3:1; Psa 104:15, etc. That is here denied of meats, and is claimed for grace.-οὐ, not) Judaism and Christianity do not agree.-βρώμασιν, with meats) An Extenuation,[91] as ch. Heb 9:10. Those meats are also denoted which were eaten in the holy place. The antithesis is, to eat, Heb 13:10. The Jews have their own meat; and we have ours, which is most healthful to us.-ἐν οἷς, in which) Construed with περιπατήσαντες.-οὐκ ὠφελήθησαν) comp. ἀνωφελὲς, ch. Heb 7:18.-οἱ περιπατήσαντες, they who have walked) long and much.
[91] See App. The same as Litotes.