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and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
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The Bondage of Fearing Death
Commentators explain that before Christ, humanity was enslaved by a profound fear of death. This wasn't just a natural anxiety, but what scholars call a "cruel bondage" rooted in the awareness of sin and the dread of God's judgment. This constant fear robbed life of peace and freedom, making people slaves to this dread their entire lives.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And deliver them. Not all of them in fact, though the way is open for all. This deliverance relates:
And might deliver (κα απαλλαξη). Further purpose with the first aorist active subjunctive of αππαλλασσω, old verb to change from, …
19th Century
Anglican
Deliver them who through fear of death ...—This verse brings into relief the former misery and the present freedom. We ma…
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Baptist
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but …
The author now develops the thought of community of nature. Jesus shared “blood and flesh” (the proper order in Greek) with the children. He really…
16th Century
Protestant
And deliver them who, etc. This passage expresses in a striking manner how miserable is the life of those who fear death, as they…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And deliver them, who through fear of death This is another end of Christ's assuming human nature, and dying in it, …
The angels fell and remained without hope or help. Christ never designed to be the Savior of the fallen angels; therefore, He did not take their na…
13th Century
Catholic
Having shown the suitability of Christ’s death from the Father’s perspective in causing it, the Apostle now shows the same from Christ’s perspectiv…
