which we have, as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and entering into that within the vail,Hebrews 6:19 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleWhich hope we have as an anchor - The apostle here changes the allusion; he represents the state of the followers of God in this lower world as resembling that of a vessel striving to perform her voyage through a troublesome, tempestuous, dangerous sea. At last she gets near the port; but the tempest continues, the water is shallow, broken, and dangerous, and she cannot get in: in order to prevent her being driven to sea again she heaves out her sheet anchor, which she has been able to get within the pier head by means of her boat, though she could not herself get in; then, swinging at the length of her cable, she rides out the storm in confidence, knowing that her anchor is sound, the ground good in which it is fastened, and the cable strong. Though agitated, she is safe; though buffeted by wind and tide, she does not drive; by and by the storm ceases, the tide flows in, her sailors take to the capstan, wear the ship against the anchor, which still keeps its bite or hold, and she gets safely into port. See on Hebrews 6:20 (note).
The comparison of hope to an anchor is frequent among the ancient heathen writers, who supposed it to be as necessary to the support of a man in adversity, as the anchor is to the safety of the ship when about to be driven on a lee shore by a storm. "To ground hope on a false supposition," says Socrates, "is like trusting to a weak anchor." He said farther, ουτε ναυν εξ ἑνος αγκυριου, ουτε βιον εκ μιας ελπιδος ὁρμιστεον· a ship ought not to trust to one anchor, nor life to one hope. Stob., Serm. 109.
The hope of eternal life is here represented as the soul's anchor; the world is the boisterous, dangerous sea; the Christian course, the voyage; the port, everlasting felicity; and the veil or inner road, the royal dock in which that anchor was cast. The storms of life continue but a short time; the anchor, hope, if fixed by faith in the eternal world, will infallibly prevent all shipwreck; the soul may be strongly tossed by various temptations, but will not drive, because the anchor is in sure ground, and itself is steadfast; it does not drag, and it does not break; faith, like the cable, is the connecting medium between the ship and the anchor, or the soul and its hope of heaven; faith sees the haven, hope desires and anticipates the rest; faith works, and hope holds fast; and, shortly, the soul enters into the haven of eternal repose.
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Acts 27:29,40 Then fearing lest we should have fallen on rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day...
both.
Psalm 42:5,11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted in me? hope you in God...
Psalm 43:5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? and why are you disquieted within me? hope in God: for I shall yet praise him...
Psalm 62:5,6 My soul, wait you only on God; for my expectation is from him...
Psalm 146:5,6 Happy is he that has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the LORD his God...
Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song...
Isaiah 25:3,4 Therefore shall the strong people glorify you, the city of the terrible nations shall fear you...
Isaiah 28:16 Therefore thus said the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone...
Jeremiah 17:7,8 Blessed is the man that trusts in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is...
Romans 4:16 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed...
Romans 5:5-10 And hope makes not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given to us...
Romans 8:28-39 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose...
1 Corinthians 15:58 Therefore, my beloved brothers, be you steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord...
2 Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God stands sure, having this seal, The Lord knows them that are his. And...
entereth.
Hebrews 4:16 Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.
Hebrews 9:3,7 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called the Holiest of all...
Hebrews 10:20,21 By a new and living way, which he has consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh...
Leviticus 16:2,15 And the LORD said to Moses, Speak to Aaron your brother...
Matthew 27:51 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent;
Ephesians 2:6 And has raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Colossians 3:1 If you then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God.
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