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Discipline, Not Punishment
Commentators explain that the Greek word for "chastening" (paideia) does not mean angry punishment, but rather fatherly discipline, correction, and training. God uses trials not to condemn His children, but to lovingly correct their faults and instruct them for their own good, much like a parent training a child.
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Hebrews
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Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 12:5
18th Century
Theologian
And you have forgotten the exhortation. This exhortation is found in Proverbs 3:11-12. The apostle's object in introducing it here is to s…
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 12:5
Ye have forgotten (εκλελησθε). Perfect middle indicative of εκλανθανω, to cause to forget, old verb, here only in the N.T. with ge…
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 12:5
19th Century
Bishop
In this cowardly avoidance of trouble and persecution, they have been shrinking from that chastening which every son receives from the Lord.
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Charles Spurgeon
On Hebrews 12:5–6
19th Century
Preacher
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Hebrews 12:5
They had forgotten an important point: Scripture links suffering and sonship, as Pr 3:11–12 shows. The address “My son” is normal for a writer of p…
John Calvin
On Hebrews 12:5
16th Century
Theologian
And you have forgotten, etc. I read these words as a question, for the author asks whether they had forgotten, intimating that it was not …
John Gill
On Hebrews 12:5
17th Century
Pastor
And you have forgotten the exhortation
Or consolation, the consolatory word or doctrine, in ([Reference Proverbs 3:1…
Matthew Henry
On Hebrews 12:1–11
17th Century
Minister
The persevering obedience of faith in Christ was the race set before the Hebrews, in which they must either win the crown of glory, or have everlas…