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Heb_13:1. Exhortation to enduring brotherly love.
Ἡ φιλαδελφία ] The love of the brethren, i.e. love to the fellow-Christians. Comp. Rom_12:10; 1Th_4:9; 1Pe_1:22; 2Pe_1:7.
μενέτω ] abide, cease not. For, according to Heb_6:10, Heb_10:33, the readers had already exercised this virtue before, and were still exercising it. Yet in their case, since they had become doubtful regarding the absolute truth of Christianity, and in part already sought to withdraw from the outward fellowship of Christians (Heb_10:25), and, moreover, in particularistic prejudice closed their hearts against a brotherly intercourse with the Gentile Christians, the renewed inculcation of this virtue was of special importance.