Charles Ellicott Commentary Hebrews 10:33

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Hebrews 10:33

1819–1905
Anglican
Charles Ellicott
Charles Ellicott

Charles Ellicott Commentary

Hebrews 10:33

1819–1905
Anglican
SCRIPTURE

"partly, being made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, becoming partakers with them that were so used." — Hebrews 10:33 (ASV)

While you were made a gazingstock.—Literally, being exposed in the theatre (see the Notes on Acts 19:29; 1 Corinthians 4:9; 1 Corinthians 15:32). Here also it is probable that the word has only a figurative sense.

While you became companions.—Better, having become sharers with those who lived in this way—who lived amidst reproaches and afflictions. Not “companions” only had they been, but sharers of the plight of their persecuted fellow believers, both by sympathy and by voluntary association with their sufferings.