The Pulpit Commentary on Hebrews 13:1-25

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CONCLUDING EXHORTATIONS

EXPOSITION

As in St. Paul's Epistles, practical directions as to conduct conclude the treatise, such as the readers may be supposed to have especially needed. They are urged to evince and confirm the faith which was the subject of Hebrews 11:1-40, and to maintain their communion with the world invisible spoken of in Hebrews 12:1-29, by attending especially to those daily duties which they might be in danger of forgetting. By perseverance in a life consistent with profession faith is not only evidenced, but also kept from faltering. In the course of these hortations (Hebrews 12:10-13), being suggested by one of them, there is introduced a yet additional view of the meaning of the Levitical symbolism.

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