Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Encouragement to patient endurance by consideration of the shortness of the time till Christ shall come, and God's rejection of him that draws back, taken from Habakkuk 2:3-4.
a little while-- (John 16:16).
he that shall come--literally, "the Comer." In Habakkuk, it is the vision that is said to be about to come. Christ, being the grand and ultimate subject of all prophetical vision, is here made by Paul, under inspiration, the subject of the Spirit's prophecy by Habakkuk, in its final and exhaustive fulfilment.
Consequent exhortation to confidence and endurance, as Christ is soon coming.
Cast not away--implying that they now have "confidence," and that it will not withdraw of itself, unless they "cast it away" wilfully (compare Hebrews 3:14).
which--Greek, "the which": inasmuch as being such as.
hath--present tense: it is as certain as if you had it in your hand (Hebrews 10:37). It hath in reversion.
recompense of reward--of grace not of debt: a reward of a kind which no mercenary self-seeker would seek: holiness will be its own reward; self-devoting unselfishness for Christ's sake will be its own rich recompense (see on Hebrews 2:2; Hebrews 11:26).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 37:13
Isaiah 60:22
2 Corinthians 11:4
2 Thessalonians 3:5
Hebrews 3:13
Hebrews 10:35-37
2 Peter 3:9
2 Peter 3:15
2 John 1:7
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