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15 looking carefully lest anyone afall short of the grace of God; lest any broot of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled;  
16 lest there be any afornicator or profane person like Esau, bwho for one morsel of food sold his birthright.  
17 For you know that afterward, when he wanted to inherit the blessing, he was arejected, for he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.  

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18 For you have not come1 to athe mountain that may be touched and that burned with fire, and to blackness and2 darkness and tempest,  
19 and the sound of a trumpet and the voice of words, so that those who heard it abegged that the word should not be spoken to them anymore.  
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Hebrews 12:17

Ye know (iste). Regular form for the second person of oida rather than the Koin‚ oidate.

He was rejected (apedokimasqh). First aorist passive indicative of apodokimazw, old verb to disapprove (Matthew 21:42).

Place of repentance (metanoiav topon). Metanoia is change of mind and purpose, not sorrow though he had tears (meta dakruwn) afterwards as told in Genesis 27:38. He sought it (authn, the blessing eulogian) with tears, but in vain. There was no change of mind in Isaac. The choice was irrevocable as Isaac shows (Genesis 27:33). Esau is a tragic example of one who does a wilful sin which allows no second chance (Hebrews 6:6; Hebrews 10:26). The author presses the case of Esau as a warning to the Christians who were tempted to give up Christ.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Hebrews 12:17:

Hebrews 1:14
Hebrews 5:8
James 1:19
1 Peter 3:9

 

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