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6 As He also says in another place:
a“You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek”;  
7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had aoffered up prayers and supplications, bwith vehement cries and tears to Him cwho was able to save Him from death, and was heard dbecause of His godly fear,  
8 though He was a Son, yet He learned aobedience by the things which He suffered.  
9 And ahaving been perfected, He became the author of eternal salvation to all who obey Him,  
10 called by God as High Priest a“according to the order of Melchizedek,”  
11 of whom awe have much to say, and hard to explain, since you have become bdull of hearing.  

Spiritual Immaturity

12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the1 oracles of God; and you have come to need amilk and not solid food.  
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Hebrews 5:8

Though He WAS (so it ought to be translated: a positive admitted fact: not a mere supposition as were would imply) God's divine Son (whence, even in His agony, He so lovingly and often cried, Father, Matthew 26:39), yet He learned His (so the Greek) obedience, not from His Sonship, but from His sufferings. As the Son, He was always obedient to the Father's will; but the special obedience needed to qualify Him as our High Priest, He learned experimentally in practical suffering. Compare Philippians 2:6-8, "equal with God, but . . . took upon Him the form of a servant, and became obedient unto death," etc. He was obedient already before His passion, but He stooped to a still more humiliating and trying form of obedience then. The Greek adage is, "Pathemata mathemata," "sufferings, disciplinings." Praying and obeying, as in Christ's case, ought to go hand in hand.




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Hebrews 5:8:

Psalms 16:8
Psalms 40:1-3
Isaiah 50:4
Philippians 2:8
Philippians 4:11
Hebrews 2:17
Hebrews 5:1
Hebrews 5:7
Hebrews 12:9

 

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