Hebrews #43 - 5:7-10 (talk 2)
Speaker Notes Learn Obedience from Suffering
The Blessing
May the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant, make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in his sight; and may the blessing of God almighty be upon you, the Father, The Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.
Hebrews 5:7-10
7 During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverent submission. 8 Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered 9 and, once made perfect, he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him 10 and was designated by God to be high priest in the order of Melchizedek.
Barclay's Daily Study Bible:
The Greek phrase for "He learned from what he suffered" is a linguistic jingle--emathen aph' hon epathen . And this is a thought which keeps recurring in the Greek thinkers. They are always connecting mathein , to learn, and pathein , to suffer. Aeschylus, the earliest of the great Greek dramatists, had as a kind of continual text: "Learning comes from suffering" (pathei mathos). He calls suffering a kind of savage grace from the gods. Herodotus declared that his sufferings were acharista mathemata, ungracious ways of learning.