For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation is to them an end of all strife.
16. For men, etc. It is an argument from the less to the greater; if credit is given to man, who is by nature false, when he swears, and for this reason, because he confirms what he says by God’s name, how much more credit is due to God, who is eternal truth, when he swears by himself?
There are things that accompany salvation, better things than any hypocrite or apostate ever enjoyed, and they will not be forgotten of God. What is done to the saints as such, God takes as done to Himself, and shall not go unrewarded.
AI summary
Commenting on Hebrews 6:9-20
Wherein God, willing,.... Or "wherefore", as the Syriac and Ethiopic versions render it; that is, whereas an oath is used among men to confirm anything that might be doubted; therefore God, in condescension to the weakness of men, made use of one; being very desirous and determined, more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel; by which is meant...