The version used is ESV
References and Titles for God
- Father - God: 1,3,5,7,10,13,17,18
- Son - Jesus, Christ, Son of God:6, High Priest in the order of Melchizadek:20
- Holy Spirit: 4
Actions of Yah
- 1: He permits
- 4: gifts of the Spirit
- 5: offers goodness of Word and powers
- 7: gives blessings
- 10: doesnt overlook or looks at everything
- 13: made a promise to Abrham; swore by Himself
- 14: spoke; gave blessing
- 17: desired to show; guaranteed with oath; (unchangeable is attribute and character and not action)
- 18: He doesnt lie (this can also be looked at as His attribute/character)
Actions of Jesus
- 1: (implicit) His doctrines that he taught
- 19-20: entered to inner place, become high priest
Actions of man/command
- 1: command: move to mature after mastering elementary
- 4-5: tasted heavenly gifts, shared in Holy Spirit
- 6: command: dont fall away
- 7: cultivated the land
- 10: served and serving saints
- 11: command: show same earnestness to have full assurance of hope till the end
- 12: command: dont be sluggish, be imitators, have faith and patience
- 15: Abraham patiently waited, obtained the promise
- 16: swear by greater thing during oath
- 18: command: flee to find refuge in God; hold fast to hope/promise
Repeating words
Wordcloud of the KJV text
and using ESV text
Here is the Greek Textus Receptus, without any stop words.
Keywords
Outside of God, Jesus and Holy Spirit
- repentance G3341 metanoia
- hope G1680 elpis
- faith G4102 pistis
- patience G3115 makrothymia
- promise G1860 epaggelia
- swear G3660 omnyo
- oath G3727 horkos
- full assurance G4136 plerophoria
- imitators G3402 mimetes
- anchor G45 agkyra
Lists
elementary from 1-2: repentance from dead works, faith toward God, instruction about baptism, laying of hands, resurrection of the dead and eternal judgement.
two unchangeable things from 17-18: his character of his purpose and impossible to lie
Figures of Speech
Again most of the metaphors are also physical and spiritual in addition to the metaphysical.
- 4: tasted heaveny gift and shared in Holy Spirit for the experience and sealing with Holy Spirit
- 5: tasted goodness: experienced or learned
- 6: crucifying: pointing back to when Jesus was crucified as he already was crucified
- 7: land drunk personification
- 7-8: land blessed and cursed is compared with believer falling away after receiving the promise
- 12: imitator for follow/model
- 19: anchor as a strong safetynet and foundation for entering to inner place
Cause & effect
- 3: if God permits -> go into more mature things
- 6: if you fall away after tasting the gifts -> impossible to restore to repentance
- 7: if rain on land -> crop produced
- 8: if land has thorns/thistles -> burnt
- 12: if not be sluggish and imitoator -> inherit the promise
- 13-15: God made the promise + Abrham was patient -> Abraham obtained the promise
- 17-18: God is uncheangable -> we can hold fast to our hope
Compare/Contrasts
- 1: elementary and mature teaching/doctrine
- 4-6: contrast tasting of the gifts to falling away
- 7-8: implicitly man compared to land
- 7-8: contrast of land that produces crop against that doesnt
- 10-18: promise to us compared to promise to Abraham
- 12: sluggish contrasted with being imitators
- 16: you compared to something greater which you swear on
- 17-20: our swearing contrasted with perfect promise of God
God's emotions: Anthropopathism
My view is that Yah is above emotions and the feelings, we men feel. Although the language of feelings and emotions are used through out the Bible in connection with Yah, we have to reconcile that with the fact that our finite brain cannot comprehend the full nature of our Creator. These are but words with meaning we can comprehend to describe to us His intent and character. The figure of speech is that of anthropopathic, ascribing to human emotions.
Although there are several verses in the Bible attributing human emotion language to Yah, we need to accommodate those with the below passages:
- [James1:13] Let no one say when he is tempted, “I am being tempted by God,” for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one.
- [Num23:19] God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?
- [Titus1:2] In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
- [Isa27:4] I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together.