Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
about--rather, as oldest manuscripts read, "carried aside"; namely, compare Ephesians 4:14.
divers--differing from the one faith in the one and the same Jesus Christ, as taught by them who had the rule over you (Hebrews 13:7).
strange--foreign to the truth.
doctrines--"teachings."
established with grace; not with meats--not with observances of Jewish distinctions between clean and unclean meats, to which ascetic Judaizers added in Christian times the rejection of some meats, and the use of others: noticed also by Paul in 1 Corinthians 8:8, 1 Corinthians 8:13; 1 Corinthians 6:13; Romans 14:17, an exact parallel to this verse: these are some of the "divers and strange doctrines" of the previous sentence. Christ's body offered once for all for us, is our true spiritual "meat" to "eat" (Hebrews 13:10), "the stay and the staff of bread" (Isaiah 3:1), the mean of all "grace."
which have not profited--Greek, "in which they who walked were not profited"; namely, in respect to justification, perfect cleansing of the conscience, and sanctification. Compare on "walked," Acts 21:21; namely, with superstitious scrupulosity, as though the worship of God in itself consisted in such legal observances.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Romans 15:33
Ephesians 4:14
Colossians 2:23
Hebrews 5:14
Hebrews 13:8
Hebrews 13:10
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