Therefore let us go to him outside the camp and bear the reproach he endured.
13. Let us go forth, therefore, etc. That the preceding allegory or mystical similitude might not be frigid and lifeless, he connects with it an important duty required of all Christians. And this mode of teaching is what Paul also usually adopts, that he might show to the faithful what things God would have them to be engaged in, while he was endeavoring to draw...
Brotherly love among believers is the spirit of Christianity itself; faith works by love, and true religion is the strongest bond of friendship. But disputes about religion corrode this affection when it is most needed, and you must guard against it with all proper means.
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Commenting on Hebrews 13:1-17
Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp,.... Either of legal ceremonies, which are to be quitted; or of this world, which may be compared to a "camp"; for its instability, a camp not being always in one place; and for its hostility, the world being full of enemies to Christ and his people; and for the noise and fatigue of it, it...