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though he was a Son, yet learned obedience by the things which he suffered;
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Commentators unanimously clarify that Jesus didn't learn obedience because He was ever disobedient. Rather, He learned it 'experimentally.' Though always perfectly willing to obey His Father, He had to practically live out that obedience through intense suffering. Scholars describe this as moving from a perfect disposition to a proven, demonstrated act of obedience. This experience was essential to His role as a sympathetic High Priest who understands our struggles.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Though he were a Son. Though the Son of God. Though he sustained this exalted rank and was conscious of it, yet he was willing to learn ex…
Though he was a Son (καιπερ ων υιος). Concessive participle with καιπερ, regular Greek idiom as in 7:5; 12:17.
Yet …
19th Century
Anglican
Though He was a Son.—These words may be connected with what precedes (implying that He was heard for His reverent fear, n…
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Baptist
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him …
We should take these words in the sense of “son though he was” rather than “although he was a son.” It is the quality of sonship that is emphasized…
16th Century
Protestant
Yet learned he obedience, etc. The immediate purpose of Christ’s sufferings was to accustom himself to obedience. This was not because he …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Though he were a Son The Son of God, as the Vulgate Latin version reads; not by creation, nor by adoption, nor by of…
The High Priest must be a man, a partaker of our nature. This shows that man had sinned, for God would not allow sinful man to come to him alone. B…
13th Century
Catholic
Having listed three things that belong to a high priest and shown that two of them were fulfilled in Christ—namely, the office and the proper way o…
