John Bengel Commentary - Hebrews 5:11 - 5:11

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John Bengel Commentary - Hebrews 5:11 - 5:11


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Heb 5:11. Περὶ οὗ, of whom) οὗ, masc., comp. ὅς, who, Heb 5:7. He now enters upon that very long anticipatory or precautionary[34] preface or preparation, which consists of rebuke, admonition, exhortation, and consolation. The Rhetoricians call it the securing (Captatio) of the kindly feeling of the reader or hearer. The preparation of the heart [of the hearer by the teacher], to which the doctrine is committed, often requires greater exertion than the teaching of the doctrine itself.-πολὺς) רב, much, i.e. too much:[35] comp. ch. Heb 13:22.-ἩΜῖΝ, to us) Paul includes, as usual, Timothy or others: comp. ch. Heb 6:1; Heb 6:3; Heb 6:9; Heb 6:11, Heb 2:5, Heb 13:18.-δυσερμήνευτος, hard to interpret) not from any fault in the writer, but in yourselves.-λέγειν) a correlative to ἈΚΟΑῖς. ΛΈΓΕΙΝ is not redundant, speaking is opposed to writing, as ch. Heb 13:22. Hard to be uttered, harder to be written, and yet the more necessary to be written on that account.-νωθροὶ) ch. Heb 6:12. The root implies ΣΤΈΡΗΣΙΝ ΤΟῦ ΘΕῖΝ, the negation of running[36]) verlegen “to loiter” on the road.-γεγόνατε, ye have become) The state of the Jews needed to be noticed, as well in so far as it was good, as also in so far as it was bad, Heb 5:12, Heb 6:10, Heb 10:25; Heb 10:32-33, Heb 12:4-5; Heb 12:12.

[34] See Append. on προθεραπέια.-ED.

[35] More than it would be expedient now to say.-ED.

[36] An improbable derivation. Rather akin to νωθής and νόθος.-ED.