2Cor 6:17, Heb 13:14 | JFB | STEP | 17. Quoted from , with the freedom of one inspired, who gives variations sanctioned by the Holy Spirit. be ye separate —"be separated" ( ). touch not the unclean thing —rather, " anything unclean" ( ). Touching is more polluting, as implying participation, than seeing. receive you —The Greek implies, "to myself"; as persons heretofore out of doors, but now admitted within ( ). With this accords the clause, "Come out from among them," namely, so as to be received to me. So , "I will accept you"; and , "gather her that was driven out." "The intercourse of believers with the world should resemble that of angels, who, when they have been sent a message from heaven, discharge their office with the utmost promptness, and joyfully fly back home to the presence of God" ( ).

2 Corinthians 6:17

17. Quoted from Isa 52:11, with the freedom of one inspired, who gives variations sanctioned by the Holy Spirit.

be ye separate—"be separated" (Ho 4:17).

touch not the unclean thing—rather, "anything unclean" (2Co 7:1; Mic 2:10). Touching is more polluting, as implying participation, than seeing.

receive you—The Greek implies, "to myself"; as persons heretofore out of doors, but now admitted within (2Co 5:1-10). With this accords the clause, "Come out from among them," namely, so as to be received to me. So Eze 20:41, "I will accept you"; and Zep 3:19, "gather her that was driven out." "The intercourse of believers with the world should resemble that of angels, who, when they have been sent a message from heaven, discharge their office with the utmost promptness, and joyfully fly back home to the presence of God" (1Co 7:31; 5:9, 10).

Hebrews 13:14

14. here—on earth. Those Hebrews who clung to the earthly sanctuary are representatives of all who cling to this earth. The earthly Jerusalem proved to be no "abiding city," having been destroyed shortly after this Epistle was written, and with it fell the Jewish civil and religious polity; a type of the whole of our present earthly order of things soon to perish.

one to come— (Heb 2:5; 11:10, 14, 16; 12:22; Php 3:20).