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Heb_12:3. Γάρ ] is here, on account of the imperative, the corroborative: Yea! (comp. Winer, Gramm., 7 Aufl. p. 415 f.); and ἀναλογίζεσθαι , in the N. T. a ἅπαξ λεγόμενον , denotes the comparing or reflecting contemplation. Bengel: Comparatione instituta cogitate: Dominus tanta tulit; quanto magis servi ferant aliquid?
ἀντιλογία , however, denotes nothing else than contradiction; and what is meant is, the contending against Christ’s divine Sonship and Messianic dignity. The notion of opposition and ill-usage in act, which is ordinarily assigned to it (still also by Böhme, Bleek, de Wette, Tholuck, Bloomfield, Delitzsch, Alford, and Maier) along with that of contradiction, this word never has. Even ἀντιλέγειν , to which appeal is made, has nowhere the sense of a hostile resistance manifesting itself in outward actions. See Meyer on Luk_2:34; Joh_19:12; Rom_10:21.
τοιαύτην ] such, i.e. one so great, sc. that He was compelled to undergo the ignominious death of the cross (Heb_12:2), in comparison with which your sufferings are something insignificant.
ἵνα μὴ κάμητε κ . τ . λ .] that ye may not grow weary, desponding in your souls. ταῖς ψυχαῖς ὑμῶν is to be conjoined with ἐκλυόμενοι (Beza, Er. Schmid, Hammond, Kuinoel, Bleek, de Wette, Ebrard, Bisping, Delitzsch, Alford, Maier, Moll, Kurtz, Hofmann, al.), not with κάμητε (Luther, Bengel, Chr. Fr. Schmid, Storr, Schulz, Böhme, and others), since otherwise something of a dragging character would be imparted to the participle.