Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 10:34

34 For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in your selves that ye have in heaven a better and an induring substance.

For ye sympathized in my Bonds, &c. is a Proof of both kinds of their Sufferings fore-mentioned. As to their suffering with others, he instanceth in himself, as a Witness of it; for when he was in Bonds for preaching the Gospel, both at Ierusalem, Acts 21.33, 37. and 22.24, 25. at Cesarea, Acts 23, and 24. at Rome, Acts 28. they fore-warned him of his Danger, bore his Burden with him, supplied, relieved him, and endeavoured, what in them, his release.

And in their own Sufferings, by being rifled for the Gospel; their Goods, Estates, and Means of Subsistance, was either by Fines, Confiscations, or Violence, ravished from them; their Enemies, like so many Harpeys, preying on them, 1 Thess. 2.14. So as these Christian Hebrews at this time had their respective Properties, and all was not levelled among them. Tho they were so impoverished to make them comply with the Gentile Superstition and Idolatry, yet they chearfully bore it, esteeming it their Honour and Priviledge thus to suffer for Christ, and herein obeyed him, as Matth. 5.11, 12. and as the Apostles did before them in Acts 5.41.

They were fully assured of this by Faith in God's Promise, and by God's Work on their own Hearts, qualifying and fitting them for it, Rom. 8.15, 16, 17. That they have by Promise given them as theirs, as fitted for them a spiritual Substance, and Estate beyond what this World could afford them, Riches, Honours, and pleasures, better for their quality than all terrene ones, spiritual ones proper for their Souls, 1 Pet. 1.3, 4. The Sum of which is, God in Christ, their exceeding great Reward, Gen. 15.1. and all he can be to, or do for them. He is their Portion, and their Inheritance, the most excellent in it self, and the most enduring, out of the reach of Men or Devils, who can neither take it from them, nor them from it, it is safe enough in the Heavens, Matth. 6.19, 20. and 19.28, 29. Psalm 16.5. 2 Cor. 5.1. 2 Thess. 1.4, 5.

Marginal references: James 1.2.; Or, that ye [illegible: 1 word] i[illegible: 1 letter] your [illegible: 1 word]. Or, for your [illegible: 1 word].; Luke 12.33. 2 Tim. 6.19.