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Scholarly and accessible, Hebrews–Revelation is a comprehensive and succinct commentary that guides users to the text’s core meaning. With enhanced ease-of-use features, specialized discussion of key words and concepts, and each commentator’s point-of-view on the text’s implications for life, it is a vital resource for every preacher, teacher, and student of the Bible.

5b Following the words of instruction to elders and young men, a call to humility is presented to everyone in the community. As has been his custom throughout the epistle, Peter supports this exhortation with a citation from the OT; here he borrows from Proverbs 3:34: “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” One is justified in calling humility the “law of the community,” as Barclay, 258, does. The admonition to “clothe yourselves with humility”
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