• Heb 1:3
• KJV wording:
• "Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person,..."
• Corrected wording that appears in other Bible versions owned and used by Mary Baker Eddy
• Noyes: "Who, being a brightness from His glory, and an image of His being."
• Corrected wording that appears in modern Bible versions
• NRSV: "He is the reflection of God's glory and the exact imprint of God's very being,"
• TEV: "He reflects the brightness of God's glory and is the exact likeness of God's own being"
• The same corrected wording that appears in the writings of Mary Baker Eddy
• S&H: "The passage is made even clearer in the translation of the late George R. Noyes, D.D.: 'Who, being a brightness from His glory, and an image of His being.' " (S&H 313:19)
• To explore some of Mary Baker Eddy's other quotes and paraphrases from non-KJV translations of the Bible, see Section 3 of http://www.bibletexts.com/bl-ver.htm.
• Original Greek New Testament (upon which the above corrections are based)
• hos <3739> on <5607> apaugasma <541> tes <3588> doxes <1391> kai <2532> charakter <5481> tes <3588> hupostaseos <5287> auto <846>
• Heb 1:10
• Gen 1:1
• Joh 1:1,2
• Mis 186:24
• Mis 258:32
• S&H 140:28
• S&H 479:18
• S&H 502:22

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• Heb 3:6 - in KJV, omit: firm unto the end - (based on correction of faulty Greek text from which KJV was translated)

• Heb 4:12 - a/r: QUICK or: living (or: alive)

• Heb 5:9 - perfect, perfection
• To read a Bible dictionary explanation of the biblical use of "perfect, perfection," browse http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/perfect.htm.
• Heb 5:12 - c/m: MEAT: food
• Heb 5:12
• Heb 5:13
• 1Co 3:2
• 1Pe 2:2
• Mis 15:30
• My 17:6
• No .05:12
• Ret 61:29
• Heb 5:13
• Heb 5:12
• 1Co 3:2
• 1Pe 2:2
• Mis 15:30
• My 17:6
• No .05:12
• Ret 61:29
• Heb 5:14 - c/m: MEAT: food

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• Heb 7:3 - a/r: DESCENT, Greek: genealogy
• Heb 7:26 - a/r: HEAVEN <3772, plural> or: the <3588> heavens <3772, plural>
• Heb 7:28 - a/r: CONSECRATED, Greek: perfected

• Heb 8:8,13 - new covenant
• Isa 61:8
• Jer 31:31
• Heb 8:13
• Heb 12:24
• S&H 33:27
• S&H 255:11-12
• My 177:16

• Heb 9:4 - a/r: CENSER or: altar of incense
• Heb 9:5 - c/m: PARTICULARLY: in detail
• Heb 9:9 - in KJV, omit: THEN
• Heb 9:10 - c/m: MEAT: food
• Heb 9:11 - a/r: TO COME in KJV, change to: that have come to be {Greek a/r: mellontown TO: genomenon}

• Heb 10:2 - c/m: CONSCIENCE: consciousness
• Heb 10:7 - c/m: VOLUME: roll
• Heb 10:22 - a/r: SPRINKLED or: cleansed (or: bathed clean)
• Heb 10:24 - a/r: CONSIDER ONE ANOTHER TO PROVOKE UNTO LOVE AND TO GOOD WORKS or: consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds
• Heb 10:34 - omit KJV wording: OF ME - (based on a needed correction of the KJV's Greek text)
• Heb 10:34 - omit KJV wording: MY - (based on a needed correction of the KJV's Greek text)
• Heb 10:34 - a/r: HAVE or: had
• Heb 10:34 - omit KJV wording: IN HEAVEN - (based on a needed correction of the KJV's Greek text)
• Heb 10:34 - KJV wording: FOR YE HAD COMPASSION OF ME IN MY BONDS, AND TOOK JOYFULLY THE SPOILING OF YOUR GOODS, KNOWING IN YOURSELVES THAT YE HAVE IN HEAVEN A BETTER AND AN ENDURING SUBSTANCE. - modern translation: You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. {ABS's Translator's Version}
• Heb 10:36 - a/r: PATIENCE or: perserverence (or: endurance)
• Heb 10:36 - a/r: THE PROMISE or: what is promised

• Heb 11:1 - KJV wording: substance - modern translation: underlying reality (or: assurance)
• Regarding the Greek word translated in the KJV as "substance," which is translated in the RSV as "assurance," Paul Ellingworth and Eugene A. Nida write in Handbook on The Letter to the Hebrews, (New York: United Bible Societies, 1983, page 251):

  The Greek word which RSV translates "assurance" has been understood in three ways: (a) From early times, some translators and commentators have thought it had the meaning "substance" or"underlying reality" which it has in 1.3 (God's own being). This interpretation is chosen by KJV "substance"; Knox and NEB text "gives substance to our hopes." (b) Most translations understand the word as "assurance" or "conviction": RSV and NEB footnote "assurance"; Phps "full confidence"; NAB "confident assurance"; or verbal expressions like to be sure; Mft "we are confident." (c) Some French translations have "guarantee," perhaps because "the word was often used in legal documents of the time for the title-deeds of a piece of property" (TNT note)...

• S&H 278:32
• S&H 301:10-302:24
• S&H 468:16-24
• Mis 27:27-2
• Mis 47:1-9
• Mis 103:7
• Mis 175:5
• Pan 15:5
• My 226:14
• My 260:11
• Heb 11:3 - KJV wording: FRAMED - modern translation: formed

• Heb 11:3
  • Edgar J. Goodspeed Goodspeed (The Complete Bible: An American Translation, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1939, page NT 212) translates this verse as follows:

    It is faith that enables us to see that the universe was created at the command of God, so that the world we see did not simply arise out of matter.

  • A word for word English translation of the UBS4 Greek New Testament text would be as follows:

  By faith <4102> we understand/perceive <3539> to be framed/repaired/prepared <2675> the <16> ages/worlds <165> by word <4487> of God <2316>, for <1519> the <12> not <3361> from <1537> shining/appearing/visible <5316> the <12> being seen <991> to have been created/made <1096>.

  • A.T Roberton (Word Pictures in the New Testament, Volume V, Nashville, TN: 1932, p. 419) provides a very useful explanation of this verse:

  By faith (pistei). Instrumental case of pistis which he now illustrates in a marvellous way. Each example as far as verse 31 is formally and with rhetorical skill introduced by pistei. After that only a summary is given. We understand (nooumen). Present active indicative of noeo, old verb (from nous, intellect) as in Matthew 15:17; Romans 1:20. The author appeals to our knowledge of the world in which these heroes lived as an illustration of faith. Recent books by great scientists like Eddington and Jeans confirm the position here taken that a Supreme Mind is behind and before the universe. Science can only stand still in God's presence and believe like a little child. The worlds (tous aionas). "The ages" as in Romans 1:2 (cf. Einstein's fourth dimension, time). Accusative case of general reference. Have been framed (kathertisthai). Perfect passive infinitive of katartizo, to mend, to equip, to perfect (Luke 6:40), in indirect discourse after nooumen. So that (eis to). As a rule eis to with the infinitive is final, but sometimes as here it expresses result as in Romans 12:3 (Robertson, Grammar, p. 1003). Hath been made (gegonenai). Perfect active infinitive of ginomai. What is seen (to blepomenon). Present passive articular participle (accusative case of general reference) of blepo. Of things which do appear (ek painomenon). Ablative case with ek (out of) of the present passive participle. The author denies the eternity of matter, a common theory then and now, and places God before the visible universe as many modern scientists now gladly do.

• Heb 11:5 - a/r: TRANSLATE(D) or: transfer(red)
• Heb 11:13 - a/r: EMBRACED, Greek: greeted
• Heb 11:13 - in KJV, omit: AND WERE PERSUADED OF THEM
• Heb 11:23 - c/m: PROPER: beautiful
• Heb 11:24 - a/r: COME TO YEARS or: grown up
• Heb 11:25 - a/r: AFFLICTION or: mistreatment
• Heb 11:25 - a/r: FOR A SEASON or: for a short time
• Heb 11:26 - a/r: ESTEEMING THE REPROACH OF CHRIST or: He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ {ABS's Translator's Version}
• Heb 11:26 - c/m: HAD RESPECT: looked
• Heb 11:26 - two commentaries

  • The Anchor Bible: To the Hebrews, by George Wesley Buchanan (New York: Doubleday, 1972, pages 197-198) comments:

    The scripture quoted in this verse is from Ps 89[88]:50-51: "Remember, O Lord, the insult of your servants, which your enemies have hurled, O Lord, with which they have mocked the retaliation of your Messiah."

    The author of Hebrews took the words "the insult" from vs. 50 and the words "the Messiah" from "your Messiah" (mesiheka) in vs. 51 and put them together in such a way a as to apply to the Messiah Jesus. Just as being "badly treated with the people of God" (11:25) was contrasted to having "transitory enjoyment of sin" (11:25, so "the insult of the Messiah" was contrasted to "the treasures of Egypt." Although it is unreasonable to think of Moses as anticipating the Messiah in pre-kingdom times, this did not disturb the author. Not only was he able to apply Psalms to Moses, he also assumed that Moses foresaw the Messiah Jesus and acted accordingly. Like other covenanters, he believed that all prophecy applied only to the days of the Messiah.)

    The chief motivation for ethical behavior for the uthor of Hebrews was the "reward" (see also 10:35; 11:6) involved, which was the promised rest, receiving the promises, or acquiring the inheritance. This was the reward Moses had in mind. In order to acquire possession of Canaan for the sons of Abraham, Moses was willing to leave "the treasures of Egypt," and accept instead "the insult of the Messiah."

  • Black's New Testament Commentaries: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews, by H.W. Montefiore (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1964, pages 203-204)

    He reckoned the reproach incurred by God's Anointed greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt. Egypt's wealth was proverbial. The reproach incurred by God's Anointed is a reference to Psa.m lxxxix. 51:f., where the chosen people are spoken of collectively as the Anointed. Doubtless our author saw their reproach as a prefiguring of the reproach which fell on Christ himself (cf. Ro. xv. 4). But our author, unlike Paul, has no doctrine of the mystical identity of Christ and the people of God. He does not mean that at the Exodus the Jews actually shared in the suffereings of Jesus Christ (cf. Col. i.24), any more than Christians actually share his reproach (xiii. 13). He means rather that their reproach is a type of what Christ himself later suffered, and that God might be trusted to reward them, as he had later vindicated Christ. And so Moses, instead of looking for present profit, kept his eyes on his future reward. Moses did not act for the purpose of earning a reward but he remained faithful to God with the result that he was rewarded (cf. x. 35; xi. 6). The introduction of the word reward here is an allusion to Psalm lxxxix. 52 (LXX).

    The Third instance of Moses' faith shows him putting loyalty to the invisible God before the wrath of a very visible Pharaoh.

• Heb 11:27 - a/r: FORSOOK or: left
• Heb 11:27 - a/r: ENDURED or: persevered
• Heb 11:29 - c/m: ASSAY(ED): attempt(ed)
• Heb 11:32 - Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets
  • Gideon
    • Bible dictionary definition - http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/gideon.htm
  • Barak
    • Bible dictionary definition - http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/barak.htm
  • Samson
    • Bible dictionary definition - http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/samson.htm
  • S&H references - http://www.bibletexts.com/sh/people.htm#samson
  • Jephthah
    • Bible dictionary definition - http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/jephthah.htm
  • David
    • Bible dictionary definition - http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/david.htm
  • S&H references - http://www.bibletexts.com/sh/people.htm#david
  • Samuel
    • Bible dictionary definition - http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/samuel.htm
  • prophet
    • Bible dictionary definition - http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/prophet.htm
  • S&H references - http://www.bibletexts.com/sh/people.htm#prophet

• Heb 12:1,2 - metaphor of running a race (forget what is behind, reach what is ahead, press/run toward the mark/goal of the high calling)

  • 1Co 9:24-27
  • Phi 3:12-14
  • S&H 20:27-32
  • S&H 324:11-18
  • S&H 353-22-24
  • S&H 426:5-11
  • Man 86:9-15
  • Mis 126:24-26
  • Mis 218:6-11
  • Mis 328:21-32
  • Mis 347:31-4
  • Mis 361:3-23
  • '00 6:4-9
  • My 155:4-15
  • My 201:2-4
• Heb 12:16 - c/m: MEAT: food
• Heb 12:20 - in KJV, omit: OR THRUST THROUGH WITH A DART
• Heb 12:24 - NEW COVENANT
• Isa 61:8
• Jer 31:31
• Heb 8:8,13
• S&H 33:27
• S&H 255:11-12
• My 177:16
• Heb 12:25 - a/r: HEAVEN <3772, plural> or: the <3588> heavens <3772, plural>
• Heb 12:26,27
• Hag 2:6

• Heb 13:5 - c/m: CONVERSATION: way of life
• Heb 13:5
• Exo 18:21
• Psa 119:36
• Pro 28:16
• Mar 7:22
• Luk 12:15
• Rom 1:29
• Eph 5:3
• Col 3:5
• 1Th 2:5
• 2Pe 2:3
• Mis 19:2
• Heb 13:7 - a/r: END or: outcome
• Heb 13:7 - c/m: CONVERSATION: way of life
• Heb 13:8 - yesterday and today and forever
• To explore additional references, browse "YESTERDAY AND  TODAY AND FOREVER" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/y.htm#yesterday-today-forever.
• Heb 13:9 - c/m: MEAT: food
• Heb 13:16 - KJV wording: communicate - corrected translation: share [your belongings]
• Heb 13:16 - share
  • See also "Christian caring for and sharing with individuals, the community, and the world" at http://www.bibletexts.com/topics/substance.htm.