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ヘブライ人への手紙 4:15

15 この大祭司は、わたしたちの弱さを思いやることのできないようなかたではない。罪は犯されなかったが、すべてのことについて、わたしたちと同じように試錬に会われたのである。

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Jesus, the Christ;   Jesus Continued;   Righteous;   Temptation;   Scofield Reference Index - Faith;   Grace;   Thompson Chain Reference - Church;   Health-Disease;   High Priest, Christ as;   Infirmities;   Perfection;   Perfection-Imperfection;   Priesthood;   Priesthood of Christ;   Satan;   Similitudes;   Sinlessness of Christ;   Sympathy, Divine;   Sympathy-Pitilessness;   Temptation;   The Topic Concordance - Jesus Christ;   Temptation;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Christ, the High Priest;   Compassion and Sympathy of Christ, the;   Excellency and Glory of Christ, the;   High Priest, the;   Human Nature of Christ, the;   Humility of Christ, the;   Prophecies Respecting Christ;   Sin;   Temptation;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Exodus;   Tempt;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Flesh;   Humanity, humankind;   Image;   Jesus christ;   Mediator;   Prayer;   Priest;   Suffering;   Temptation;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Adam, the Second;   Church, the;   Grief, Grieving;   Jesus Christ, Name and Titles of;   Perfect, Perfection;   Prayer;   Presence of God;   Sexuality, Human;   Temptation, Test;   Virgin Birth;   Weakness;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Adoption;   Humiliation of Christ;   Mediator;   Temptation of Christ;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Humiliation of Christ;   Intercession of Christ;   Mediator;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Altar;   Hebrews, the Epistle to the;   High Priest;   Jesus Christ;   Lazarus;   Mediator;   Sacrifice;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Compassion;   Flesh;   Hebrews;   History;   Incarnation;   Perfect;   Temptation of Jesus;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Atonement;   Hebrews, Epistle to;   Jesus Christ;   Joel, Book of;   Prayer;   Priest;   Rest;   Temptation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Aaron;   Aaron (2);   Ascension;   Attributes of Christ;   Boyhood of Jesus;   Children of God;   Consciousness;   Consecrate, Consecration;   Dependence;   Despondency;   Discipline (2);   Evil;   Evolution (Christ and);   Example;   Fellowship;   Flesh ;   Grace ;   Hebrews Epistle to the;   High Priest (2);   Holiness;   Holiness Purity;   Hopefulness ;   Humanity of Christ;   Hunger;   Innocence;   Kenosis;   Love;   Man;   Mental Characteristics;   Obedience (2);   Perfection (of Jesus);   Pity Compassion;   Priest;   Priest (2);   Righteous, Righteousness;   Session;   Sinlessness;   Spirit ;   Struggles of Soul;   Suffering (2);   Sympathy;   Temptation;   Temptation, Trial;   Thirst;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - High Priest;   Priest, Priesthood;   Temptations, the Lord's;   47 To Have Compassion, Sympathy, Forbearance;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Tabernacle, the;   Jesus of Nazareth;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ascension;   Chemarim;   Feeling;   Hebrews, Epistle to the;   Infirmity;   Kenosis;   Obedience of Christ;   Person of Christ;   Points;   Prayer;   Priest, High;   Priesthood in the New Testament;   Tempt;   Temptation of Christ;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 19;   Every Day Light - Devotion for November 21;   My Utmost for His Highest - Devotion for September 18;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

we have: Hebrews 5:2, Exodus 23:9, Isaiah 53:4, Isaiah 53:5, Hosea 11:8, Matthew 8:16, Matthew 8:17, Matthew 12:20, Philippians 2:7, Philippians 2:8

tempted: Hebrews 2:17, Hebrews 2:18, Luke 4:2, Luke 22:28

yet: Hebrews 7:26, Isaiah 53:9, John 8:46, 2 Corinthians 5:21, 1 Peter 2:22, 1 John 3:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 19:21 - I Genesis 42:24 - wept Exodus 3:7 - I have Exodus 28:30 - upon his heart Numbers 18:1 - Thou Judges 10:16 - his soul Esther 4:5 - to know Job 31:37 - as a Psalms 40:12 - innumerable Psalms 107:6 - Then Isaiah 53:3 - a man Isaiah 63:9 - all their Jeremiah 31:8 - them the Jeremiah 45:2 - unto Matthew 4:1 - to Matthew 9:36 - when Matthew 14:14 - and was Matthew 15:32 - I have Matthew 20:34 - Jesus Matthew 21:18 - he hungered Matthew 26:42 - the second Mark 1:13 - tempted Mark 1:41 - moved Mark 4:38 - in the Mark 6:34 - saw Mark 7:34 - he sighed Mark 8:2 - compassion Mark 10:49 - stood Luke 1:35 - that Luke 4:13 - General Luke 7:13 - he Luke 8:23 - he fell John 4:6 - being John 5:6 - and knew John 6:37 - I will John 8:29 - for John 11:33 - he groaned John 11:35 - General John 14:13 - in my John 14:30 - and Romans 6:19 - because Romans 7:21 - evil Romans 8:26 - infirmities Romans 8:34 - who also Ephesians 2:18 - through Hebrews 2:14 - he also Hebrews 3:1 - and Hebrews 9:8 - the way Hebrews 9:11 - an high priest Revelation 1:13 - like Revelation 8:3 - offer it with the prayers

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For we have not an high priest,.... That is cruel and unmerciful; the saints have an high priest, but not such an one:

which cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; such as bodily diseases and wants, persecutions from men, and the temptations of Satan; under all which Christ sympathizes with his people; and which sympathy of his arises from his knowledge and experience of these things, and the share he has had of them, and from that union there is between him and his people: and it is not a bare sympathy, but is attended with his assistance, support, and deliverance; and the consideration of it is of great comfort to the saints:

but was in all points tempted like as we are: of the temptations of Christ, and of the saints, :-

yet without sin; there was no sin in his nature; though he was encompassed about with infirmities, yet not with sinful infirmities, only sinless ones; nor was there any sin in his temptations; though he was solicited to sin by Satan, yet he could find none in him to work upon; nor could he draw him into the commission of any sin.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched - Our High Priest is not cold and unfeeling. That is, we have one who is abundantly qualified to sympathize with us in our afflictions, and to whom, therefore, we may look for aid and support in trials. Had we a high priest who was cold and heartless; who simply performed the external duties of his office without entering into the sympathies of those who came to seek for pardon; who had never experienced any trials, and who felt himself above those who sought his aid, we should necessarily feel disheartened in attempting to overcome our sins, and to live to God. His coldness would repel us; his stateliness would awe us; his distance and reserve would keep us away, and perhaps render us indifferent to all desire to be saved. But tenderness and sympathy attract those who are feeble, and kindness does more than anything else to encourage those who have to encounter difficulties and dangers; see the notes at Hebrews 2:16-18. Such tenderness and sympathy has our Great High Priest.

But was in all points tempted like as we are - “Tried” as we are; see the notes at Hebrews 2:18. He was subjected to all the kinds of trial to which we can be, and he is, therefore, able to sympathize with us and to aid us. He was tempted - in the literal sense; he was persecuted; he was poor; he was despised; he suffered physical pain; he endured the sorrows of a lingering and most cruel death.

Yet without sin - 1 Peter 2:22. “Who did no sin;” Isaiah 53:9, “He had done no violence, neither was there any deceit in his mouth;” Hebrews 7:26, “Who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners.” The importance of this fact - that the Great High Priest of the Christian profession was “without sin,” the apostle illustrates at length in Heb. 7–9. He here merely alludes to it, and says that one who was “without sin” was able to assist those who were sinners, and who put their trust in him.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. For we have not a high priest — To the objection, "Your High Priest, if entered into the heavens, can have no participation with you, and no sympathy for you, because out of the reach of human feelings and infirmities," he answers: Ου γαρ εχομεν Αρχιερεα μη δυναμενον συμπαθησαι ταις ασθενειαις ἡμων. We have not a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weakness. Though he be the Son of God, as to his human nature, and equal in his Divine nature with God; yet, having partaken of human nature, and having submitted to all its trials and distresses, and being in all points tempted like as we are, without feeling or consenting to sin; he is able to succour them that are tempted. See Hebrews 2:18, and the note there.

The words κατα παντα καθ' ὁμοιοτητα might be translated, in all points according to the likeness, i.e. as far as his human nature could bear affinity to ours; for, though he had a perfect human body and human soul, yet that body was perfectly tempered; it was free from all morbid action, and consequently from all irregular movements. His mind, or human soul, being free from all sin, being every way perfect, could feel no irregular temper, nothing that was inconsistent with infinite purity. In all these respects he was different from us; and cannot, as man, sympathize with us in any feelings of this kind: but, as God, he has provided support for the body under all its trials and infirmities, and for the soul he has provided an atonement and purifying sacrifice; so that he cleanses the heart from all unrighteousness, and fills the soul with his Holy Spirit, and makes it his own temple and continual habitation. He took our flesh and blood, a human body and a human soul, and lived a human life. Here was the likeness of sinful flesh, Romans 8:5; and by thus assuming human nature, he was completely qualified to make an atonement for the sins of the world.


 
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