אל־העברים 13:19

Delitzsche Hebrew New Testament

וְאֶפְצַר בָּכֶם מְאֹד לַעֲשׂוֹת הַדָּבָר הַזֶּה לְמַעַן אוּשַׁב אֲלֵיכֶם בִּמְהֵרָה׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Modern Translation
ובחזקה אבקש מכם לעשות זאת למען אושב אליכם במהרה׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

that I: Romans 1:10-12, Romans 15:31, Romans 15:32, Philemon 1:22

Reciprocal: Colossians 4:3 - praying 1 Thessalonians 5:25 - General 2 Thessalonians 3:1 - pray Philemon 1:9 - love's sake 2 John 1:12 - I trust

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But I beseech you the rather to do this,.... To pray earnestly; to strive together in their prayers for them,

Romans 15:30

that I may be restored to you the sooner: Christ's ministers are sometimes hindered from being with their people, through Satan, or his emissaries, creating troubles, or casting them into prison; which might be the apostle's case now; but God can make their way through all; and for this he should be prayed unto.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

That I may be restored to you the sooner - It is here clearly implied that the writer was deterred from visiting them by some adverse circumstances over which he had no control. This might be either by imprisonment, or sickness, or the want of a convenient opportunity of reaching them. The probability is, judging particularly from the statement in Hebrews 13:23, that he was then a prisoner, and that his detention was on that account; see Introduction, section 4 (6). The language here is such as Paul would use on the supposition that he was then a prisoner at Rome, and this is a slight circumstance going to show the probability that the Epistle was composed by him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 19. The rather to do this — That is, pray for us, that, being enabled to complete the work which God has given us here to do, we may be the sooner enabled to visit you. It is evident, from this, that the people to whom this epistle was written knew well who was the author of it; nor does there appear, in any place, any design in the writer to conceal his name, and how the epistle came to lack a name it is impossible to say. I have sometimes thought that a part of the beginning might have been lost, as it not only begins without a name, but begins very abruptly.