ヘブライ人への手紙 5:2

聖書日本語

2 彼は自分自身、弱さを身に負うているので、無知な迷っている人々を、思いやることができると共に、

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Who: Hebrews 2:18, Hebrews 4:15

have compassion on: or, reasonably bear with

ignorant: Numbers 15:22-29, 1 Timothy 1:13

them: Hebrews 12:13, Exodus 32:8, Judges 2:17, Isaiah 30:11

is compassed: Hebrews 7:28, Exodus 32:2-5, Exodus 32:21-24, Numbers 12:1-9, Numbers 20:10-12, Luke 22:32, 2 Corinthians 11:30, 2 Corinthians 12:5, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:10, Galatians 4:13

Reciprocal: Leviticus 4:2 - through Leviticus 16:6 - for himself Ezekiel 45:20 - every one Matthew 9:11 - Why Matthew 9:36 - when Matthew 14:14 - and was Mark 8:2 - compassion Acts 18:14 - bear Romans 8:26 - infirmities 2 Corinthians 11:1 - bear with me a 1 Thessalonians 5:14 - be Hebrews 2:17 - a merciful

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Who can have compassion on the ignorant,.... Who have committed sins of ignorance, and bring their sacrifices for them; these he does not insult and upbraid, nor break out into anger and indignation against; but pities them, and sympathizes with them; has a just measure of compassion suitable to their condition, and bears with them with great moderation and temper:

and on them that are out of the way; of God's commandments; who are like sheep going astray, and turn to their own way; who transgress the law of God, and err from it; perhaps such who sin knowingly and wilfully, and through infirmity, are meant:

for that he himself also is compassed with infirmity; not of body only, but of mind, sinful infirmity; he had much of it, it beset him all around; he was "clothed" with it, as the Syriac version renders it; as Joshua the high priest was with filthy garments, Zechariah 3:3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who can have compassion - Margin, “Reasonably bear with.” The idea is that of “sympathizing with.” The high priest is taken from among men, in order that he may have a fellow-feeling for those on whose behalf he officiates. Sensible of his own ignorance, he is able to sympathize with those who are ignorant; and compassed about with infirmity, he is able to succour those who have like infirmities.

And on them that are out of the way - The erring, and the guilty. If he were taken from an order of beings superior to people, be would be less qualified to sympathize with those who felt that they were sinners, and who needed pardon.

For that he himself also is compassed with infirmity - see chap. Hebrews 7:28. He is liable to err; He is subject to temptation; he must die, and appear before God - and encompassed with these infirmities, he is better qualified to minister in behalf of guilty and dying people. For the same reason it is, that the ministers of the gospel are chosen from among people. They are of like passions with others. They are sinners; they are dying men. They can enter into the feelings of those who are conscious of guilt; they can sympathize with those who tremble in dread of death; they can partake of the emotions of those who expect soon to appear before God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 5:2. Who can have compassion on the ignorant — The word μετριοπαθειν, signifies, not merely to have compassion, but to act with moderation, and to bear with each in proportion to his ignorance, weakness, and untoward circumstances, all taken into consideration with the offences he has committed: in a word, to pity, feel for, and excuse, as far as possible; and, when the provocation is at the highest, to moderate one's passion towards the culprit, and be ready to pardon; and when punishment must be administered, to do it in the gentlest manner.

Instead of αγνοουσι, the ignorant, one MS. only, but that of high repute, has ασθενουσι, the weak. Most men sin much through ignorance, but this does not excuse them if they have within reach the means of instruction. And the great majority of the human race sin through weakness. The principle of evil is strong in them; the occasions of sin are many; through their fall from God they are become exceedingly weak; and what the apostle calls, Hebrews 12:1, that ευπεριστατον αμαρτιαν, the well-circumstanced sin, often occurs to every man. But, as in the above ease, weakness itself is no excuse, when the means of strength and succour are always at hand. However, all these are circumstances which the Jewish high priest took into consideration, and they are certainly not less attended to by the High Priest of our profession.

The reason given why the high priest should be slow to punish and prone to forgive is, that he himself is also compassed with weakness; περικειται ασθενειαν; weakness lies all around him, it is his clothing; and as he feels his clothing, so should he feel it; and as he feels it, so he should deplore it, and compassionate others.