Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
fathers . . . which corrected us--rather as Greek, "We had the fathers of our flesh as correctors."
subjection--See the punishment of insubordination, Deuteronomy 21:18.
Father of spirits--contrasted with "the fathers of our flesh." "Generation by men is carnal, by God is spiritual" [BENGEL]. As "Father of spirits," He is both the Originator, and the Providential and Gracious Sustainer, at once of animal and spiritual life. Compare "and LIVE," namely, spiritually; also Hebrews 12:10, "that we might be partakers of His holiness" (2 Peter 1:4). God is a spirit Himself, and the Creator of spirits like Himself, in contrast to men who are flesh, and the progenitors of flesh (John 3:6). Jesus our pattern "learned obedience" experimentally by suffering (Hebrews 5:8).
and live--and so, thereby live spiritually and eternally.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 119:75-78
Zechariah 12:1
Hebrews 12:5
Hebrews 12:7
James 1:17
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