Commentaries on Heb 12:1-2 Fixing our eyes on Jesus MacLarens Expositions We lose much by not making very real to our minds that Jesus lived His earthly life by faith, that for Him as for us dependence on God, and humble confidence in Him, were the secret of peace, and the spring of power. ‘He is able to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by Him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.’ Gills Exposition of the Entire Bible ...with the eye of the understanding, or with the eye of faith; ...a believer should be always looking to Christ, and off of every object, as the word here used signifies. Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges ... the Greek verb aphorôntes, which implies that we must “look away (from other things) unto Jesus.” It implies “the concentration of the wandering gaze into a single direction.” Pulpit commentary ...Christians, to whom the exhortation is addressed, may look to him in an obvious sense as their Captain to be followed. It may be here observed that anticipation of reward hereafter is among legitimate human motives to a good life. ..the highest virtue consists in doing what is right simply because it is right - in fulfilling Gods will, ...but the hope of a final happy issue comes properly, and indeed inevitably, in as an inspiring and sustaining motive. Aspiration after Happiness is a God-given instinct of humanity, necessary for keeping up the life of virtue. Nor, again, is the joy looked forward to a selfish joy. It is the joy of sharing in the triumph of eternal righteousness in company with all the redeemed, whose salvation, no less than his own, he desires and strives for.
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