p. 40. Does the Christian feel no interest in this truth? [Note: Lane, Hebrews 9-13 , p530.]. The year is almost over. Obs. "John Owen Exposition of Hebrews". Jesus Christ is, the same yesterday (when our fathers lived and struggled), today (now that we live and struggle), and throughout the ages. — Hebrews 13:8. It is a general truth. I ask you to think of the relation between the unchanging Christ and the dying helpers. In the last verse but one of that chapter, she came to these words; “Whoso findeth me, findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the Lord.” Immediately, without waiting for her to conclude the chapter, he cried, “Stop, stop, now shut up the book; that is enough for me.” Blessed man! It would seem to mean that Jesus Christ, the unchangeable Saviour, was the end or aim of the conduct of those referred to, or that they lived to imitate and glorify him. 3. 1700-1703. That observation disposes of the reference of these words to the past eternity in which the eternal Word of God was what He is to-day. Hebrews 13:8, NASB: … Blessed are they who, in a world of passing phenomena, penetrate to the still centre of rest, and looking over all the vacillations of the things that can be shaken, can turn to the Christ and say, Thou who movest all things art Thyself unmoved; Thou who changest all things, Thyself changest not. "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". Finding the new version too difficult to understand? BibliographyPhilpot, Joseph Charles. I beg you to consider if its meaning be not since His resurrection; since He sent the message to His disciples on that resurrection day, "Go to My brethren"; since He appeared that night to them saying, "See My hands and My feet"; and He ate with them, and "showed Himself alive ... by the space of forty days." By “to-day,” all understand the present time, or the time during the dispensation of the gospel. 2. xxxv., p. 49; A. Rowland, Ibid., vol. And it is agreed that it may have respect either unto what goes before, or what follows after, or unto both. His double name is given in solemn emphasis. ), or of the time before the appearing of Christ (Bengel, Cramer, Stein), or to the whole time of the Old Covenant (Calvin, Pareus, al. Not only the doctrine concerning Christ is intended, but Jesus Christ Himself, of whom the doctrine of faith treats. Cannot he that said, “Let there be light, and there was light,” transform our corrupted hearts into the Divine image in righteousness and true holiness? Your late faithful, loving, and much beloved pastor is no more: he that was, not in profession merely, but in truth, “a guide to the blind, a light of them which were in darkness, an instructor of the foolish, and a teacher of babes;” he that for so many years spent all his time, and found all his delight, in imparting the knowledge of salvation both to old and young; he, I say, is taken from you; and your loss is unspeakably severe. The gospel is the last revelation of the mind of God, made know by Jesus Christ, that ever will be laid before the world: such therefore as reject him and his doctrine, reject the last remedy, the only remedy, and must needs perish, without any possiblity of recovery. Hebrews 13:8(NASB) Verse Thoughts 'All Scripture is inspired by God and is profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction and for training in righteousness', and Jesus came as the fulfilment of God's written Word. Alexander, Cæsar, Charlemagne, and myself have founded great empires. Go to. II. In the preceding verse (for we have no reason to look higher in this series of duties, independent one on another) the Hebrews are enjoined to persevere in the faith of their first apostolical teachers, and to have the same faith in themselves as they had. We find it difficult to realise with any fulness the conditions of Christian life in those days, and the advantage and disadvantage to the Christian preacher and the Christian convert of the recent character of the events on which the one based his teaching, the other his conviction. The sky is farthest away from us right over our heads; behind and in front it seems to touch the earth. Heinrich Meyer's Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament, Johann Albrecht Bengel's Gnomon of the New Testament, Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible, Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture. 1865-1868. (8) Jesus Christ the same . 1851. The collocation “Jesus Christ” is in this Epistle only found elsewhere in Hebrews 13:21 and Hebrews 10:10. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/hebrews-13.html. [Note: Bruce, The Epistle ..., p395.] He must be to you, today, what he was to them, yesterday, and will be forever to the heavenly hosts - Christ. No. The expression is rhetorical; ἐχθές is consequently not to be further expounded, in such wise that we must think of the time of the former teachers (Schlichting, Grotius, Hammond, Limborch, Bleek, de Wette, Bisping, Delitzsch, Maier, Kluge, Kurtz, Hofmann, Woerner, al. See also 1 Corinthians 3:11; Philippians 3:16. See the exposition of that place. BibliographySchaff, Philip. The past.—To read the ‘yesterday’ of Jesus, we must go back to that time, before the corner-stone of this world was laid, when, in far anticipation of all the ruin that should befall us, He planned His advent of love and blessing—‘Then said I’—O where is that ‘then’?—what millions of ages back!—‘Then said I, Lo, I come!’, II. Not the great Examplar, though the Hero, the Saviour, the Comforter, Who lives and breathes in every verse at once touching and eloquent of our New Testament; though the Hero, and Saviour, and Comforter is at once perfect, flawless. John 1:16. The eternity of his sameness consists in this, that the today is an ever movable standpoint. All which truths are contained in this assertion of the apostle, with the occasion and use of it in this place. Jesus Christ the same, & c., John 14:6. Though this hath no term of connection, yet it may be referred either to what precedeth or followeth it; for the apostle is not here dropping aphorisms, but pressing on the subjects of Christ’s kingdom known duties. Jesus Christ. I. Hebrews 7:3; Hebrews 7:16; Hebrews 7:24-25. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein. & 7. Change with us is constant, universal. His 'forever' commences with His second advent. ), 1. True, ‘that which is to be hath already been’; true, there is ‘nothing new under the sun’; but just as in the physical world the infinite variety of creatures and things is all made Out of a few very simple elements, so, in our lives, out of a comparatively small number of possible incidents, an immense variety of combinations results, with the effect that, while we may be sure of the broad outlines of our future, we are all in the dark as to its particular events, and only know that ceaseless change with characterise it. And we may observe, that, —. Our departed friend has experienced that change, which sooner or later awaits us all: he will ere long experience a still further change, when “his corruptible shall put on incorruption, and his mortal, immortality;” when his body, that now lies mouldering in the dust, shall be “raised like unto Christ’s glorious body,” and “shine above the sun in the firmament for ever and ever:” he is not to-day what he was yesterday: nor shall be for ever what he now is. So, secondly, I apply these words in another direction. Version. What right has anyone to substitute the word _cosmos (world), God's word to denote the earth (Matt. The Christian of those days would have found it much more difficult to forecast the Christian faith and practice, the Christian difficulties and the Christian advantages of a time eighteen hundred years after him, when events, vividly fresh to him, should have become matters of far-off history. BibliographyConstable, Thomas. I do this in order to learn more about what it means to follow Jesus without it being intimately connected with whatever will… "Commentary on Hebrews 13:8". or shall its virtue ever be diminished? "Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges". By the very law of contrast, and by the need of finding sufficient reason for the changes, we are driven from the contemplation of the fleeting to the vision of the permanent. Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today, yea and forever!--Let this mighty verse grasp our hearts, for it is spoken of our Saviour, Jesus Christ. And so these words may well come to us with lessons of encouragement, and with teaching of duty and steadfastness, in an epoch of much unrest and change - social, theological, ecclesiastical- such as that in which our lot is cast. It is Jesus Christ, the immutable. ὁ αὐτὸς γάρ ἐστι, altern. We need not fear change within the limits of His Church or of His world. King James Version Update. “We are of yesterday, and know nothing,” Job 8:9. The greatness of the son 1:1-3. v1 In … The farmer leaders looked to Jesus as their Pioneer! Hebrews Commentary The New Testament for English Readers. also ch. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/wnc/hebrews-13.html. Jesus lives! But even thus the real point of the statement is missed. ], and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof.” The same fidelity did Jesus manifest, whilst he sojourned upon earth: the Father had committed to him a chosen people to keep: and Jesus with his dying breath could say, “Those whom thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost.” He promised to his disconsolate disciples, that he would pour out his Spirit upon them; and that the Comforter, whom he would send, should far more than compensate for the loss of his bodily presence: and how speedily did he perform his promise! He separates us from all others; blessed be God! Obs. 2012. IN this present state, wherein the affairs both of individuals and of nations are liable to continual fluctuation, the mind needs some principle capable of supporting it under every adverse circumstance that may occur. "Sermon Bible Commentary". It is the immutability and eternity of Jesus Christ in his divine person that renders him a meet object of the faith of the church in the discharge of his office. Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday—before He came into the world, before His passion, before His ascension—and to-day, in heaven; yesterday and to-day in the former and latter (second) part of this exhortation: yesterday in the time of our earlier and later predecessors, and to-day in our own age. ], “Who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man that shall be as grass, and forgettest the Lord thy Maker?” Are we, as in the present instance, afflicted for the Church of God? Jesus Christ is the content of the message that the leaders had preached to these hearers (cf. He desired “to be found in Christ, not having his own righteousness, but that which is by the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith.” And as he trusted in no other for his own salvation, so he preached no other amongst you. For here a rule is fixed as unto trial of all doctrines, namely, the acknowledgment of Christ in his person and office; which in the like case is given us by the apostle 1 John 4:2-3. Nor is such an intimation of any use unto the purpose of the apostle. Enthusiasts indeed, who have put their own vain conceits in the place of his word, and have presumed to call their own feelings or fancies by the sacred appellation of a promise, have often met with disappointments; nor can they reasonably expect any thing else: but they who rest upon the clear promises of the Gospel, and wait for the accomplishment of them to their own souls, “shall not be ashamed or confounded world without end.” Let any creature upon earth “seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness,” and shall he be left wholly destitute with respect to temporal comforts? The present.—And what ‘to-day’? Surely we may still say with the same confidence that the Apostles declared it in the days of old, “We have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins: he is the propitiation, not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world: through him all that believe shall be justified from all things: the blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.” How sweetly have many of you experienced the truth of these declarations, when your dear minister has been insisting on this favourite topic, and “Christ has been set forth crucified, as it were, before your eyes!” How many of you, while lying at Bethesda’s pool, have embraced the opportunity afforded you, and plunged beneath that water to the healing of your souls! You will observe the accuracy of the words and the exact force of the expression. So, secondly, I apply these words in another direction. already Theophylact), the encouraging assurance that, as to these leaders, so also to the readers, provided they only take the faith of these leaders as a model for themselves, the gracious aid of Christ—of which, however, there was no mention in Hebrews 13:7—will not be wanting; or finally, as Carpzov,(124) the more precise information as to that in which their faith had consisted. We therefore wholly reject divers and strange teachings (vs. 9). Hebrews 13:8 NIV. Now as he is dealing with the Jews, he teaches them that Christ had ever possessed the same sovereignty which he holds at this day; The same, he says, yesterday, and today, and forever. viii., p. 294; J. Natt, Posthumous Sermons, p. 345. BibliographyEllicott, Charles John. He has “given exceeding great and precious promises” to his Church, not one jot or tittle of which have ever failed. That is the connection in which the words occur in my text. Hebrews 13: 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever (NASB: Lockman). Remember, too, that this same thought which heartens us to front the inevitable changes, also gives dignity, beauty, poetry, to the small prosaic present. $3.99 a month puts a library of commentaries, study notes, and Greek & Hebrew language tools right in your pocket. And the epoch referred to in the ‘yesterday’ is defined more closely if we observe the previous context, which speaks of the dying teachers who have had the rule and have passed away. x., No. "Commentary on Hebrews 13:8". xxvii., p. 188. See Hebrews 1:12. ].” Now the tender compassion which Christ exercised towards his people in the wilderness, is made a frequent subject of devout acknowledgment in the Holy Scriptures. It has filled the whole soul of the man of mighty intellect, and has satisfied the mind of low degree. They lived and died in the faith that Jesus is The Christ - the Messiah. ], insists upon them as immediately applicable to the Messiah, and adduces them in proof, that Christ was infinitely superior to any created being, even “God blessed for evermore.” Our Lord himself on various occasions asserted his claim to this title: to the carnal Jews, who thought him a mere creature like themselves, he said, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” And when he appeared to John in a vision, he said, “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty [Note: Revelation 1:8. “Yesterday” carries the thought back to the lifetime of the teachers now no more; what the Saviour was to them, that will He be to their survivors. III. The text in Hebrews 13:8 states: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever.“ This verse must be read in context with Hebrews 13:7 and Hebrews 13:9: Hebrews 13:7 states: “Remember those who rule over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose faith follow, considering the outcome of their conduct.“ In that he saith, A new covenant — In that he expresses himself in this manner; he hath made the first old — He hath manifested it to be old, or he hath shown that it is disannulled and out of date. II. How long you may continue favoured with such invitations, God alone knows: but O that you might this day begin to seek the Lord! Remember the time in your experience when Jesus Christ was most tender, most near, most sweet, most mysterious, most soul-sufficing for you, and be sure that He stands beside you, ready to renew the ancient blessing and to surpass it in His gift. Being so in himself, he is so in his office from first to last; so that, although divers alterations were made in the institutions of divine worship, and there were many degrees and parts of divine revelation, yet in and through them all Jesus Christ was still the same. what a delight was it to him to “strengthen your weak hands, and confirm your feeble knees, and to say to your fearful hearts, Be strong, fear not, your God will come and save you!” Ye, “afflicted and tossed with tempest, and not comforted,” whatever your distresses were, surely ye have lost a brother, “a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.” But though his benevolent heart can no more expand towards you, “has your Lord forgotten to be gracious? 1:1 In the past God spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various ways, 2 but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe. I. I apply these words, then, as a New-Year’s motto, in two or three different directions, and ask you to consider, first, the unchanging Christ in His relation to our changeful lives. II. alt.) Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever, Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day; the same also in eternity, yesterday, yesterday and the day before, yesterday and to-day, yesterday, Always the same Saviour and the same Teacher, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. He is “the same,” the author, object, and finisher of faith; the preserver and rewarder of them that believe, and that equally in all generations. 8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever. Hebrews 8:13. Then in ten days He sent forth the blessed Spirit upon His beloved believers, and lo, the Church, the Body of Christ is found! III. Try it for 30 days FREE. It is from his divine person, that, in the discharge of his office, he was ὁ αὐτὸς, “the same.” So it is said of him, σὺ δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς ει῏ Hebrews 1:12, — “But thou art the same;” that is, eternal, immutable, indeficient. Colossians 3:1-4.]. ... Hebrews 13:8 The Eternal Christ through the Ages; Hebrews 13:13 Suffering Outside the Camp; Hebrews 13:7-8 The Unchanging Christ; BOB DEFFINBAUGH Sermons on Hebrews. Whatever may happen, let us hold fast by that confidence, ‘Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.’ IV. Let this foundation be laid, Whatever complies with the revelation hereof is true and genuine; what doth not, is various and strange. Will he be near me when I am dying? https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/whe/hebrews-13.html. It is here interposed as a weighty reason of the duty foregoing, to remember their guides, imitate their faith, and consider the end of their conversation, for they taught, believed in, conversed with, and at last were perfected by, Jesus Christ; so that they might be saved by him as their guides were, there being no other way to blessedness, but by. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jtc/hebrews-13.html. But mistaken also the Vulgate, Oecumenius, Luther, Vatablus, Zeger, Calvin, and others, in that they interpunctuate after σήμερον: Jesus Christ yesterday and to-day; the same also in eternity. Could David, after the commission of crimes, which “make the ears of every one that heareth them to tingle,” cry, “Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow;” and may not the most abandoned sinner now hope for mercy through “the blood of sprinkling?” Could Saul, that blasphemer, that injurious and persecuting zealot, say of Christ, “He has loved me, and given himself for me?” Could he say, “I obtained mercy, that in me, the chief of sinners, Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them who shall hereafter believe on him to life everlasting?” And shall any one be left to doubt whether there be hope for him? chide your unbelief: know that “the fountain was opened for sin, and for uncleanness.” Look not then so much at the malignity of your offences, as at the infinite value of Christ’s atonement: and under every fresh contracted guilt, go to the fountain, wash in it, and be clean. It has been all things to all men, and yet it has not changed. (Sapphir well says, "All their departed teachers and elders had shown them in life and death what they had declared: The just shall live by faith. Then he counseled his readers … Christ is not done with yet, nor has the world done with Him, nor is He less available for the necessities of this generation, with its perplexities and difficulties, than He was in the past. It is indeed certain that Christ existed before he manifested his power; but the question is, what is the subject of the Apostle. Such was his faith. — Jesus Christ the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever [Note: This was preached on occasion of the death of the Hon and Rev. The future.—‘Yesterday, and to-day, and for ever.’ Has it ever happened to you to say—‘I think there was a time when God loved me—when I was a little child. 7. 2. the same: be not then carried away’ &c. As to the meaning of the words, ἐχθές (the common and also Attic form, whereas χθές is Epic, Ionic, and Attic) refers to the time past, when their ἡγούμενοι passed away from them; σήμερον to the time present, when the Writer and the readers were living. There is no need to affix a determinate, distinct sense, as unto the notation of time, unto each word, as “yesterday,” “to-day,” and “for ever;” the apostle designing, by a kind of proverbial speech, wherein respect is had unto all seasons, to denote the eternity and immutability of Christ in them all. In defiance of time and space, the soul of man, with all its powers and faculties, becomes an annexation to the empire of Christ. https:https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/hebrews-13.html. Each lesson on this study of Hebrews is designed fit into … Consider this, I beseech you; that you “may fight the good fight of faith, and quit yourselves like men.” Go on, “strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus;” and doubt not, but that you shall find the grace of Christ as sufficient for you as it has been for him; and that what Christ has been to others in former ages, he will be to you, the same yesterday, to-day, and for ever. His power and love and grace are all unchanging and exhaustless. He will have it entirely to Himself. "Whedon's Commentary on the Bible". Hebrews 13:13.—Spurgeon, Sermons, vol. This is the sentiment of the apostle: Jesus Christ is always the same; He who was yesterday, is the SAME TO-DAY, nay, for ever (to all AGES): [Always the same Saviour and the same Teacher.—V. Lastly, look at these words in their application to the relation between the unchanging Christ and the eternal life of heaven. Let it go; Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, and to-day, and for ever. 5. While Jesus Christ remains the same for ever, man’s ideas of Jesus Christ have varied greatly, and vary greatly still, III. The question, having been declined by Bertrand, Napoleon proceeded: “Well, I will tell you. III. Hebrews 1:12). Hebrews 13:8. What He was “yesterday and to-day” He will be for ever. 1. 1871-8. BibliographyIce, Rhoderick D. "Commentary on Hebrews 13:8". But the design of the apostle is to utter that which tends to the honor of Christ, and not unto his diminution. As the moon rises slow and silvery, with its broad shield, out of the fluctuations of the ocean, so the one radiant Figure of the all sufficient and immutable Lover and Friend of our souls should rise for us out of the billows of life’s tossing ocean, and come to us across the seal Brother! BibliographyNicoll, William R. "Commentary on Hebrews 13:8". 8. Quoting from the Psalms, He Himself declared..''Behold, the volume of the book is written about Me - and I have … Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. It is a general truth. We may apply the thought to the relation between the unchanging Christ and decaying institutions and opinions. 1876. Hebrews 13:8: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. let the fleeting proclaim to you the permanent; let the world with its revolutions lead you up to the thought of Him who is the same for ever. But he is the same Jesus now as when he was the man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as he wears the same human body, so he has the same tender, compassionate heart. 5. The yesterday of my text may either be applied to the generations that have passed, and then the ‘to-day’ is our little life; or may be applied to my own yesterday, and then the to-day is this narrow present. But carry your thoughts a little further: follow him within the vail: behold him united to that blessed assembly of saints and angels: see him freed from the bondage of corruption, arrayed in the unspotted robe of his Redeemer’s righteousness, crowned with a royal diadem, seated on a throne of glory, tuning his golden harp, and with a voice as loud and as melodious as any saint in heaven, singing, “Salvation to God and to the Lamb.” Is there so much as one of you that can think of this, and not exclaim, “Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!” Let the thought of these things, my brethren, encourage you to persevere: the conflict cannot be very long; but how glorious the triumph! To Christ alone belongs this honour; and “with him there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.”. ἰησοῦς χριστός is the subject, and ὁ αὐτός (sc. Yesterday, and to-day, and the same for ever. He considered obedience to the powers that be, as an essential part of his duty to God: he looked upon earthly governors as ministers ordained of God; and inculcated obedience to them as a duty, “not merely for wrath, but also for conscience sake.” As then ye have been followers of his faith and practice while living, so be ye imitators of him now that he is withdrawn from you: “be ye followers of him, as he was of Christ.” And be careful, “not to be carried about with divers and strange doctrines,” either in religion or politics: but “hold fast that ye have received, that no man take your crown.” If there be any here, who have never yet been “partakers of the like precious faith with him,” O that I might this day prevail with them to “become obedient to the faith!” My dear brethren, you will assuredly find, that the only means of holiness in life, or of peace in death, or of glory in eternity, is, the knowledge of Christ: “there is no other name under heaven given among men whereby we can be saved” from sin and misery in this world, or from everlasting destruction in the world to come; no other name, I say, but the name of Jesus Christ. 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