partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
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partly, being exposed to both reproaches and oppressions; and partly, becoming partakers with those who were treated so.
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partly whill all men wondred and gased at you for the shame and trioulacion that was done vnto you and partly whill ye became companyons of the which so passed their tyme.
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Partly while yee were made a gazing stocke both by reproches and afflictions, and partly while ye became companions of them which were so tossed to and from.
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Passages linked to Hebrews 10:33 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- 1 Corinthians 4:9 For, I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last of all, like men sentenced to death. For we are made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and men.
- Philippians 4:14 However you did well that you shared in my affliction.
- Psalms 74:22 Arise, God! Plead your own cause. Remember how the foolish man mocks you all day.
- Isaiah 51:7 “Listen to me, you who know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law. Don’t fear the reproach of men, and don’t be dismayed at their insults.
- 2 Corinthians 12:10 Therefore I take pleasure in weaknesses, in injuries, in necessities, in persecutions, and in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then am I strong.
- Philippians 1:7 It is even right for me to think this way on behalf of all of you, because I have you in my heart, because both in my bonds and in the defense and confirmation of the Good News, you all are partakers with me of grace.
- Hebrews 11:36 Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.
- Psalms 69:9 For the zeal of your house consumes me. The reproaches of those who reproach you have fallen on me.
- Psalms 71:7 I am a marvel to many, but you are my strong refuge.
- Psalms 79:12 Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.
- Psalms 89:51 With which your enemies have mocked, Yahweh, with which they have mocked the footsteps of your anointed one.
- Nahum 3:6 I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
- Zechariah 3:8 Hear now, Joshua the high priest, you and your fellows who sit before you; for they are men who are a sign: for, behold, I will bring out my servant, the Branch.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews
- 2 Timothy 1:8 Therefore don’t be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner; but endure hardship for the Good News according to the power of God,
- 2 Timothy 1:16-18 May the Lord grant mercy to the house of Onesiphorus, for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chain, but when he was in Rome, he sought me diligently and found me (the Lord grant to him to find the Lord’s mercy in that day); and in how many things he served at Ephesus, you know very well.
- Hebrews 11:26 considering the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Egypt; for he looked to the reward.
- Hebrews 13:13 Let’s therefore go out to him outside of the camp, bearing his reproach.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 33. Partly, whilst ye were made, etc. We see…
33. Partly, whilst ye were made, etc. We see who they were whom he addresses, even those whose faith had been proved by no common trials, and yet he refrains not from exhorting them to greater things. Let no man therefore deceive himself by self-flattery as though he had reached the goal, or had no need of incentives from others.
Now he says, that they had been made gazingstocks both by reproaches and afflictions, or exposed to public shame by reproaches and distresses, as though they were exposed on a public theater. We hence learn that the persecutions which they had sustained were remarkably severe. But we ought especially to notice the latter clause, when he says that they became companions, or associates of the godly in their persecutions; for as it is Christ’s cause for which all the godly contend, and as it is what their contend for in common, whatever one of them suffers, all the rest ought to transfer, as it were, to themselves; and this is what ought by all means to be done by us, unless we would separate ourselves from Christ himself.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain You were brought forth to be ashamed.
You were brought forth to be ashamed.
In taking their miseries, to be your miseries.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both…
33 Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used.
Ver. 33. Made a gazing-stock] Gr. θεατριζομενοι, set upon a theatre; take it either properly, or metaphorically, both befell Christians. See 1Co 4:9.
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Ye became companions of them] Sympathy hath a strange force; as we see in the strings of an instrument; which being played upon (as they say), the strings of another instrument are also moved with it. (Dr Sibbs.) After love hath once kindled love, then the heart being melted is fit to receive any impression. Two spirits warmed with the same heat, will easily solder together.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by…
Partly, whilst ye were made a gazingstock both by reproaches and afflictions; their sufferings personal in this famous instance, θεατριζομενοι. They were so publicly exposed as on a stage or theatre, so as multitudes might sport themselves with them, 1Co 4:9; as many were exposed to be devoured by beasts in their public shows, 1Co 15:32. Or, to destroy them, exposed in their public courts of justice, and there taunted and reviled, as Christ foretold them, Mat 10:17,18. They were suffering reproaches and afflictions publicly both in word and deed. What nick-names imposed on them, what crimes imputed to them which they abhorred, what buffeting, scourging, tormenting, shackling, imprisoning, banishing, were they not exercised with, as their fellow Christians are to this day?
And partly, whilst ye became companions of them that were so used; their sufferings by participation, in presence and sympathy with their fellow Christians. This is another kind of it; they were consorts and sharers of all those members of Christ, who were so abused by the devil and his instruments, and they bore their burdens with them, were inwardly grieved for them, publicly owned and comforted them, supplied and supported them as they could, as Heb 10:34; 2Co 11:25,26.
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William Burkitt 1703 · Public Domain Here our apostle particularly mentions the sufferings which the…
Here our apostle particularly mentions the sufferings which the primitive saints underwent for the sake of Christianity, and reduces them to three heads, shame, pain, loss: They suffered in their names, by being disgraced; in their persons, by being scourged; in their estates, by the spoiling of their goods. Let all that make profession of the name of Christ expect and provide for such sufferings, especially for reproaches.
We may put a due value upon our names and reputations, but must not be over solicitous about the preservation of them. Let us keep in the way of our duty, and leave our good name to God’s care and keeping. The world first thunders out our reproaches, then falls into a storm persecution.
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Learn hence, that all temporary sufferings, in all their aggravating circumstances, in all their formidable dress and appearance, may be, and oft-times are, the lot and portion of those who have undertaken the profession of Christianity. Ye endured a great fight of afflictions, whilst ye were made a gazing-stock to the world.
The Christians here wre exposed to the world as it were upon a stage, or in a theatre where multitudes might gaze upon them, revile, and make a sport of them.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For ye have need of patience,.... Not that they…
For ye have need of patience,.... Not that they were destitute of the grace of patience; for where God is the God of all grace, he is the God of patience; and such, who are called by grace, are conformed to the image of Christ, and, among other things, are like him in this; and those who are born of the Spirit, have the fruits of the Spirit, and this, among the rest; to whom the word of God is effectual, this fruit is produced in them, that being the word of patience; and such who are brought into the kingdom of Christ, are also in the patience of Jesus; where there is one grace, there is every grace; saints are immediately called to sufferings and trials, which require patience; and, without this, there can be no enjoyment of a man's self: but the meaning is, that they needed the continuance, exercise, and increase of it; in general, to run the race set before them; to bear afflictions from the hand of God, and reproaches and persecutions from men; to wait for God, when he hides his face, and for answers of prayer, when they are deferred; and to bear up, and not to sink under temptations; and to live in the constant expectation of heaven and happiness: and, in particular, it is necessary for the following,
that after ye have done the will of God: there is the purposing will of God, which is done by himself; and there is his revealed will, touching the salvation of men, which is done by his Son; and there is his will of precept to be done by men; and which, when done aright, is done according to the rule of his word, in faith, from love, through the strength of Christ, and by the assistance of his Spirit and grace, with a view to his glory, and without any dependence on what is done: and the will of God regards suffering, as well as doing; for to that the saints are also called, to which patience is necessary:
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ye might receive the promise; that is, of eternal life; not the promise itself, which they had received already, but the thing promised; which is the sense, in which this word is often used in this book, Heb 6:12 which is so called, to show that it is not of works, for promise and merit do not agree together; but that it is of grace, and will certainly be enjoyed, but must be patiently waited for.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 33. Ye were made a gazing-stock] Θεατριζομενοι. Ye…
Verse 33. Ye were made a gazing-stock] Θεατριζομενοι. Ye were exhibited as wild beasts and other shows at the theatres. See the note on 1Cor 4:9, where all this is illustrated.
Companions of them that were so used.] It appears, from 1Th 2:14-15, that the Churches of God in Judea were greatly persecuted, and that they believed with courage and constancy in their persecutions. When any victim of persecuting rage was marked out, the rest were prompt to take his part, and acknowledge themselves believers in the same doctrine for which he suffered. This was a noble spirit; many would have slunk into a corner, and put off the marks of Christ, that they might not be exposed to affliction on this account.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Partly - That is, your affliction consisted partly in…
Partly - That is, your affliction consisted partly in this. The Greek is, “this” - specifying one kind of affliction that they were called to endure.
Whilst ye were made a gazing-stock - Greek θεατριζόμενοι theatrizomenoi - you were made a public spectacle, as if in a theater; you were held up to public view, or exposed to public scorn. When this was done, or in precisely what manner, we are not told. It was not an uncommon thing, however, for the early Christians to be held up to reproach and scorn, and probably this refers to some time when it was done by rulers or magistrates. It was a common custom among the Greeks and Romans to lead criminals, before they were put to death, through the theater, and thus to expose them to the insults and reproaches of the multitude. See the proofs of this adduced by Kuinoel on this passage. The “language” here seems to have been taken from this custom, though there is no evidence that the Christians to whom Paul refers had been treated in this manner.
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By reproaches - Repreached as being the followers of Jesus of Nazareth; probably as weak and fanatical.
And afflictions - Various “sufferings” inflicted on them. They were not merely reviled in words, but they were made to endure positive sufferings of various kinds.
And partly, while ye became companions of them that were so used - That is, even when they had not themselves been subjected to these trials, they had sympathized with those who were. They doubtless imparted to them of their property; sent to them relief, and identified themselves with them. It is not known to what particular occasion the apostle here refers. In the next verse he mentions one instance in which they had done this, in aiding him when he was a prisoner.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain The persecutions here referred to seem to have been…
The persecutions here referred to seem to have been endured by the Hebrew Christians at their first conversion, not only in Palestine, but also in Rome and elsewhere, the Jews in every city inciting the populace and the Roman authorities against Christians.
gazing-stock--as in a theater (so the Greek): often used as the place of punishment in the presence of the assembled multitudes. Act 19:29; Co1 4:9, "Made a theatrical spectacle to the world."
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ye became--of your own accord: attesting your Christian sympathy with your suffering brethren.
companions of--sharers in affliction with.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 33. Made a gazing stock—Literally, theatrized; that is, exposed…
33. Made a gazing stock—Literally, theatrized; that is, exposed to shame, as if a spectacle in a public theatre.
Reproaches—Affecting their reputations.
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Afflictions—Affecting their persons and goods.
Companions—Sympathizers and associates of despised and persecuted Christians.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 33. ye were made a gazingstock] Lit. “being set…
33. ye were made a gazingstock] Lit. “being set upon a stage” (theatrizomenoi). The same metaphor is used in 1Co_4:9 (“We became a theatre,” comp. 1Co_15:32).
companions] Rather, “partakers.”
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that were so used] “Who lived in this condition of things.”
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (33) Whilst ye were made a gazingstock.—Literally, being exposed…
(33) Whilst ye were made a gazingstock.—Literally, being exposed in the theatre (see the Notes on Act_19:29; 1Co_4:9; 1Co_15:32). Here also it is probable that the word has only a figurative sense.
Whilst ye became companions.—Better, having become sharers with them that thus lived—that lived amidst “reproaches and afflictions.” Not “companions” only had they been, but sharers of the lot of their persecuted brethren, both by sympathy and by voluntary association with their sufferings.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Partly, being made a gazing-stock both by reproaches and…
Partly, being made a gazing-stock both by reproaches and afflictions; and partly, having become partakers with them that were so used. On yeatrizomenoi (translated "made a gazing-stock"), cf. 1Co_4:9, Yeatron egenhyhmen tw kosmw kai oggeloiv kai anyrwpoiv . The figure is drawn from the Roman amphitheatres, where persons doomed to death were exposed to the gaze and the contumely of crowds; and the expression may not be wholly figurative, but denote the actual treatment of Christians, as expressed by the common cry, "Christianos ad leones!" The phrase, twn outw anastrefomenwn , (translated "them that were so used"), might be more correctly rendered (as anastrefesyai is elsewhere), "them that so had their conversation," i.e. manner of life. For the word is not used in a passive sense, but as equivalent to versari; cf. Mat_17:22 2Co_1:12 Eph_2:3 Heb_13:18; also Gal_1:13 Eph_4:22, etc. ( anastrofh). The Vulgate has taliter conversantium; Wickliffe, "men living so;" Tyndale and Cranmer, "them who so passed their time." But the A.V may give the meaning with sufficient correctness, the main thought being probably the experience of the persons referred to rather than their demeanor under it.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 33. Made a gazing stock. Looked upon with reproach,…
33. Made a gazing stock. Looked upon with reproach, abused and afflicted personally. Companions. Sharing the suffering of those who were persecuted.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 10:33 public ridicule: They were insulted and disgraced. •…
10:33 public ridicule: They were insulted and disgraced. • beaten: They were abused physically. • At times they were direct recipients of abuse, and at times they stood with others who were suffering.
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