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Heb_12:8. Εἰ δὲ χωρίς ἐστε παιδείας ] If, on the other hand, ye are free from chastisement (have been spared it). Wrongly Theodoret: εἰ τοίνυν καὶ ὑμεῖς τὴν παιδείαν ἐκκλίνετε .
ἧς μέτοχοι γεγόνασιν πάντες ] of which all (sc. whom God—like the saints of the O. T. enumerated chap. 11—has really acknowledged as His sons) have become partakers. That the relative clause contains no statement of entirely universal import, applicable also to the relation towards the earthly fathers (Camerarius, Beza, Limborch, al.), but, on the contrary, one affecting exclusively the relation towards God, is clear from the parallel with Heb_12:7, as well as from the perfect γεγόνασιν .
νόθοι ] bastards, begotten out of wedlock, for whose weal or woe their father is not wont to be greatly concerned.