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For indeed we have had good news preached to us, even as also they, but the word of hearing did not profit them, because it was not mixed with faith by those who heard.
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Faith: The Active Ingredient
Commentators unanimously agree that hearing God's good news is not enough. The message only becomes profitable when it is combined with personal faith. Scholars like Spurgeon use the analogy of a medicine that is useless until mixed with another ingredient. Without faith, the Word of God remains external and provides no spiritual nourishment, rendering it spiritually unprofitable to the hearer.
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Hebrews
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For unto us was the gospel preached as well as unto them. This translation by no means conveys the sense of the original. According to thi…
For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us (κα γαρ εσμεν ευηγγελισμενο εσμεν). Periphrastic perfect passive indicative o…
19th Century
Anglican
For unto us was.—Rather, for we have had glad tidings preached to us, even as they had. The object of these words is to s…
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Baptist
For unto us was the Gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that h…
“We have had the gospel preached to us” (GK 2294) uses the verb that became the technical term for preaching the Gospel (though the word can also m…
16th Century
Protestant
For to us, etc. He reminds us that the doctrine by which God invites us to himself today is the same as that which he formerly de…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For unto us was the Gospel preached
The Gospel is the good news and glad tidings of salvation by Christ. And this …
The privileges we have under the gospel, are greater than any had under the law of Moses, though the same gospel in substance was preached under bo…
13th Century
Catholic
Having cited and explained the authority, the Apostle now argues from it. In this regard, he does two things:
