Hebrews 10:32

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after you were illuminated, you endured a great fight with afflictions;
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Clement Of Alexandria

AD 215
But we are not of them that draw back unto perdition, but of them that believe to the saving of the soul."

George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
But call to mind the former days: After having laid before them the severity of God's judgments, he comforts them with the hopes they may have of their eternal salvation, from what they had already suffered soon after they received the light of the gospel, and were illuminated by baptism. (Witham)

John Chrysostom

AD 407
The best Physicians after they have made a deep incision, and have increased the pains by the wound, soothing the afflicted part, and giving rest and refreshment to the disturbed soul, proceed not to make a second incision, but rather soothe that which has been made with gentle remedies, and such as are suited to remove the violence of the pain. This Paul also did after he had shaken their souls, and pierced them with the recollection of Hell, and convinced then, that he must certainly perish, who does despite to the grace of God, and after he had shown from the laws of Moses, that they also shall perish, and the more [fearfully], and confirm it by other testimonies, and had said, It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the Living God Hebrews 10:31: then, lest the soul desponding through excessive fear, should be swallowed up with grief, he soothes them by commendations and exhortation, and gives them zeal derived from their own conduct. For, he says, call to remembrance the fo...

Methodius of Olympus

AD 311
Is the Spirit of truth, the Paraclete, of whom the illuminated

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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