Hebrews 5:8 KJV
[8] Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
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Robertson's Word Pictures -Heb 5:8 -
Though he was a Son (kaiper ōn huios). Concessive participle with kaiper, regular Greek idiom as in Heb_7:5; Heb_12:17.
Yet learned obedience (emathen hupakoēn). Second aorist active indicative of manthanō. Succinct and crisp statement of the humanity of Jesus in full harmony with Luk_2:40, Luk_2:52 and with Heb_2:10.
By the things which he suffered (aph' hōn epathen). There is a play on the two verbs (emathen-epathen), paronomasia. Second aorist active indicative of paschō. He always did his Fathers will (Joh_8:29), but he grew in experience as in wisdom and stature and in the power of sympathy with us.
Jamieson, Faussett, Brown-Heb 5:8 -
Though He WAS (so it ought to be translated: a positive admitted fact: not a mere supposition as were would imply) Gods divine Son (whence, even in His agony, He so lovingly and often cried, Father, Mat_26:39), yet He learned His (so the Greek) obedience, not from His Sonship, but from His sufferings. As the Son, He was always obedient to the Fathers will; but the special obedience needed to qualify Him as our High Priest, He learned experimentally in practical suffering. Compare Phi_2:6-8, equal with God, but ... took upon Him the form of a servant, and became obedient unto death, etc. He was obedient already before His passion, but He stooped to a still more humiliating and trying form of obedience then. The Greek adage is, Pathemata mathemata, sufferings, disciplinings. Praying and obeying, as in Christs case, ought to go hand in hand.
Matthew Henry Commentary
2. The consequences of this discharge of his office, Heb_5:8, Heb_5:9, etc.
(1.) By these his sufferings he learned obedience, though he was a Son, Heb_5:8. Here observe, [1.] The privilege of Christ: He was a Son; the only-begotten of the Father. One would have thought this might have exempted him from suffering, but it did not. Let none then who are the children of God by adoption expect an absolute freedom from suffering. What Son is he whom the Father chasteneth not? [2.] Christ made improvement by his sufferings. By his passive obedience, he learned active obedience; that is, he practiced that great lesson, and made it appear that he was well and perfectly learned in it; though he never was disobedient, yet he never performed such an act of obedience as when he became obedient to death, even to the death of the cross. Here he has left us an example, that we should learn by all our afflictions a humble obedience to the will of God. We need affliction, to teach us submission.
