I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
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I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
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I desire you therfore somwhat the moare aboundantly that ye so do that I maye be restored to you quyckly.
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And I desire you somewhat the more earnestly, that yee so doe, that I may be restored to you more quickly.
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Passages linked to Hebrews 13:19 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Philemon 1:22 Also, prepare a guest room for me, for I hope that through your prayers I will be restored to you.
- Romans 1:10-12 requesting, if by any means now at last I may be prospered by the will of God to come to you. For I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, to the end that you may be established; that is, that I with you may be encouraged in you, each of us by the other’s faith, both yours and mine.
- Romans 15:31-32 that I may be delivered from those who are disobedient in Judea, and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints, that I may come to you in joy through the will of God, and together with you, find rest.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 19. But I beseech you, etc. He now adds…
19. But I beseech you, etc. He now adds another argument, — that the prayers they would make for him, would be profitable to them all as well as to himself individually, as though he had said, “I do not so much consult my own benefit as the benefit of you all; for to be restored to you would be the common good of all.”
A probable conjecture may hence perhaps be gathered, that the author of this Epistle was either beset with troubles or detained by the fear of persecution, so as not to be able to appear among those to whom he was writing. It might however be, that he thus spoke, though he was free and at liberty, for he regarded man’s steps as being in God’s hand; and this appears probable from the end of the Epistle.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 19 But I beseech you the rather to do…
19 But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
Ver. 19. That I may be restored] Prayer reigns over all impediments. See this excellently set forth by Mr Harris in his Peter’s Enlargemeat.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain He is the more urging and pressing them to…
He is the more urging and pressing them to the exercise of this duty more fervently, instantly, and abundantly, at this time, that they might prevail with God to remove hinderances by his enemies, freeing him from his chain and restraint at Rome, and to speed his liberty for a return to them, that it might be in the fulness of the blessing of the gospel. So the church prayed for Peter, and prevailed, Act 12:12, and he had hopes that God would hear them for him also, Phm 1:22.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But I beseech you the rather to do this,....…
But I beseech you the rather to do this,.... To pray earnestly; to strive together in their prayers for them, Rom 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.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 19. The rather to do this] That is,…
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.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain That I may be restored to you the sooner…
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 Heb 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.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain the rather--Greek, "I the more abundantly beseech you."
the rather--Greek, "I the more abundantly beseech you."
to do this--to pray for me.
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that I may be restored to you-- (Plm 1:22). It is here first in the letter he mentions himself, in a way so unobtrusive, as not to prejudice his Hebrew readers against him, which would have been the result had he commenced this as his other Epistles, with authoritatively announcing his name and apostolic commission.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 19. But I—Narrowing from us in the last verse…
19. But I—Narrowing from us in the last verse to himself alone.
Restored—It was St. Paul who had once been with them, was snatched from them, is now detained from them, hopes to be restored to them. This entire passage to the end of the epistle demonstrates that it was written, not directly to a general section, as Palestine, but to a particular Church.
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Yet though addressed to the mother city, it was intended to be treasured and read in all the churches.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 19. that I may be restored to you the…
19. that I may be restored to you the sooner] So St Paul in Phm_1:22. We are unable to conjecture the circumstances which for the present prevented the writer from visiting them. It is clear from the word “restored” that he must once have lived among them.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (19) But I beseech you.—Rather, And I exhort you…
(19) But I beseech you.—Rather, And I exhort you the more (literally, the more abundantly) to do this. All that we can certainly infer from this verse (see Introduction) is that the writer had formerly been associated with those whom he now addresses, and that he is at present hindered from returning to them.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain And I beseech you the more abundantly (the Pauline…
And I beseech you the more abundantly (the Pauline word, perissoterwv) to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. The author of the Epistle proceeds here for the first time to speak of himself individually; and what he thus says shows that the Epistle was addressed to some definite circle of Hebrew Christians, and one which he had been among before. What circumstances, whether of imprisonment or other hindrances, were in the way of his revisiting them does not appear. We remark that this verse again reminds us strongly of St. Paul. (cf. Phm_1:22) The possibility may be here noted (see Introduction, p. 12) that, if the Epistle was composed by one of St. Paul"s friends, and sent under his authority, he may have himself dictated this concluding portion (beginning possibly at ver. 17) which is in a more epistolary style than the rest, and contains personal allusions.
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B. W. Johnson 1891 · Public Domain 19. I beseech you the rather for your prayers…
19. I beseech you the rather for your prayers that I may be the sooner released and returned to you. Paul had been torn away from Jerusalem, and finally sent to Rome as a prisoner. The language here implies the imprisonment of the writer.
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