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For most assuredly, not to angels does he give help, but he gives help to the seed of Abraham.
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Commentators explain that the phrase 'gives help' comes from a Greek word meaning 'to take hold of' or 'to seize.' This isn't a distant, abstract help, but a hands-on rescue. Christ didn't just offer a solution; He actively took hold of human nature itself to save people who were, as one scholar notes, 'ready to perish.'
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For verily. Truly. He took not on him the nature of angels. The marginal note reads: He taketh not hold of angels, but of the…
Verily (δε που). "Now in some way," only here in N.T.
Doth he take hold (επιλαμβανετα). Present middle ind…
19th Century
Anglican
He took not on him the nature of angels.—The rendering of the margin approaches very nearly the true meaning of the verse; whereas…
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Baptist
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
There were two; it was a slender remnan…
The writer now makes a strong affirmation and appeals to information shared by the reader. There is a problem about the verb rendered “helps” (GK 2…
16th Century
Protestant
For truly, or, For nowhere, etc. By this comparison, the biblical writer enhances the benefit and the honor with which Christ has…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For verily he took not on him the nature of angels Good angels; for they are all along spoken of in this book; and i…
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…
