33.

[303] 2 Sam. v. 25.

[304] 2 Sam. viii. 2, 6.

[305] 1 Sam. xii. 23.

[306] 2 Sam. vii. 28, 29.

[307] Dan. vi. 22.

[308] Dan. iii. 27, 28.

[309] 1 Kings xix. 1-3.

[310] 2 Kings vi. 17.

[311] 2 Kings xx. 5.

[312] 1 Macc. v.

[313] 1 Kings xvii. 22.

[314] 2 Kings iv. 35.

[315] =ex= (chap. xi. 35).

[316] Luke xx. 35.

[317] 2 Macc. vi. 19.

[318] 2 Chron. xxiv. 21.

[319] Reading =epresthesan=.

[320] _Ad Martyras_, 2.

[321] Chap. ix. 8.

[322] Chap. ii. 15.

[323] Chap. xi. 40.

[324] =peri=.

[325] Eph. iii. 10.

[326] mart/yron (xii. 1).

[327] perike/imenon.

[328] Acts i. 8; xxii. 14.

CHAPTER XIV.

_CONFLICT._

"Therefore let us also, seeing we are compassed about with so great
a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth
so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is
set before us, looking unto Jesus the Author and Perfecter of _our_
faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the Cross,
despising shame, and hath sat down at the right hand of the throne
of God. For consider Him that hath endured such gainsaying of
sinners against themselves, that ye wax not weary, fainting in your
souls. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving against sin:
and ye have forgotten the exhortation, which reasoneth with you as
with sons,

My son, regard not lightly the chastening of the Lord,
Nor faint when thou art reproved of Him;
For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth,
And scourgeth every son whom He receiveth.

It is for chastening that ye endure; God dealeth with you as with
sons; for what son is there whom _his_ father chasteneth not? But if
ye are without chastening, whereof all have been made partakers,
then are ye bastards, and not sons. Furthermore, we had the fathers
of our flesh to chasten us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not
much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?
For they verily for a few days chastened _us_ as seemed good to
them; but He for _our_ profit, that _we_ may be partakers of His
holiness. All chastening seemeth for the present to be not joyous,
but grievous: yet afterward it yieldeth peaceable fruit unto them
that have been exercised thereby, _even the fruit_ of righteousness.
Wherefore lift up the hands that hang down