Our fathers disciplined us for a short time as they thought best, but God disciplines us for our good, so that we may share in His holiness.
10. For they verily for a few days, etc. The second amplification of the subject, as I have said, is that God’s chastisements are appointed to subdue and mortify our flesh, so that we may be renewed for a celestial life.
For they verily for a few days chastened us,.... Which respects not the minority of children, during which time they are under the correction of parents, and which is but a few days; nor the short life of parents; but rather the end which parents have in chastening their children, which is their temporal good, and which lasts but for a few days; which sense...
You have striven against sin, but not unto blood; you have not yet suffered as martyrs have. Christ gently trains His people with lesser sufferings first, not casting weak vessels into the hardest trials at once. Take notice of His kindness in measuring your afflictions to your strength.
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Commenting on Hebrews 12:4-17