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Heb_10:35. Exhortation deduced from Heb_10:32-34. The self-sacrificing zeal for Christianity displayed in the past ought to animate the readers to a joyful maintenance of the same likewise in the present, since of a truth this very stedfastness in zeal leads to the longed-for goal.
ἀποβάλλειν ] here not the involuntary losing (Jac. Cappellus, Lösner, and others), but the voluntary casting from one, or letting fall away (comp. Mar_10:50), as though it were a question only of a worthless, useless thing; μὴ ἀποβάλλειν thus the same as κατέχειν , Heb_10:23; Heb_3:6; Heb_3:14, and κρατεῖν , Heb_4:14, Heb_6:18.
τὴν παῤῥησίαν ὑμῶν ] your joyful confidence, sc. towards Christ as your Saviour. The free, courageous confession of Christianity before the world, of which Beza, Grotius, and others understand the expression, is only the consequence of the παῤῥησία , which here, too, as Heb_10:19; Heb_3:6; Heb_4:16, denotes a frame of the mind.
ἥτις ] which of a truth. Introduction of a well-known, indisputable verity.
μεγάλην μισθαποδοσίαν ] great rewarding retribution (see at Heb_2:2), namely, the promised everlasting blessedness (Heb_10:36).
The present ἔχει , although the μισθαποδοσία is as yet something future, of the undoubted certainty of its containing in itself, or having as a consequence.