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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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Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 4:2
18th Century
Theologian
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…
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 4:2
For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us (κα γαρ εσμεν ευηγγελισμενο εσμεν). Periphrastic perfect passive indicative o…
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 4:2
19th Century
Bishop
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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Charles Spurgeon
On Hebrews 4:2
19th Century
Preacher
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…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Hebrews 4:2
“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…
John Calvin
On Hebrews 4:2
16th Century
Theologian
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…
John Gill
On Hebrews 4:2
17th Century
Pastor
For unto us was the Gospel preached
The Gospel is the good news and glad tidings of salvation by Christ. And this …
Matthew Henry
On Hebrews 4:1–10
17th Century
Minister
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…