35-37. Consequent exhortation to confidence and endurance, as
Christ is soon coming.
Cast not away--implying that they now have "confidence," and
that it will not withdraw of itself, unless they "cast it away"
wilfully (compare
Heb 3:14).
which--Greek, "the which": inasmuch as being such as.
hath--present tense: it is as certain as if you had it in your
hand
(Heb 10:37).
It hath in reversion.
recompense of reward--of grace not of debt: a reward of a kind
which no mercenary self-seeker would seek: holiness will be its own
reward; self-devoting unselfishness for Christ's sake will be its own
rich recompense (see on
Heb 2:2;
Heb 11:26).
JFB.
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