Commentary on Hebrews and the Catholic Epistles John Calvin (continued)
Chapter
Heb 13:1-6
Hebrews Chapter 13:1-6
1. Let brotherly love continue. 1. Fraterna charitas maneat. 2. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
2. Hospitalitatis ne sitis immemores; per hanc enim quosdam latuit quum recipissent Angelos.
3. Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body.
3. Memores estote vinctorum, tanquam ipsi quoque sitis in corpore. 4. Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
4. Honorabile in omnibus conjugium et thorus impollutus; scortatores auten et adulteros judicabit Deus.
5. Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
5. Sint mores sine avaritia: contenti sitis iis quae adsunt; ipse enim dixit, Non te desero, neque te derelinquo:
6. So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.
6. Ut fidentes dicamus, Dominus mihi adjutor, neque timebo quid faciat mihi homo.
1. Let brotherly love, etc. Probably he gave this command respecting brotherly love, because a secret hatred arising from the haughtiness of the Jews was threatening to rend the Churches. But still this precept is generally very needful, for nothing flows away so easily as love; when everyone thinks of himself more than he ought, he will allow to others less than he ought; and then many offenses happen daily which cause separations. 277
He calls love brotherly, not only to teach us that we ought to be mutually united together by a peculiar and an inward feeling of love, but also that we may remember that we cannot be Christians without being brethren; for he speaks of the love which the household of faith ought to cultivate one towards
277"Continue" or remain, implies that they had manifested this love, chapter 6:10; as though he had said, "Let the love of the brethren be such as it has been." — Ed.