Hebrews Chapter 13 verse 19 Holy Bible
And I exhort `you' the more exceedingly to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
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I make this request more strongly, in the hope of coming back to you more quickly.
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But I much more beseech [you] to do this, that I may the more quickly be restored to you.
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But I beseech you the rather to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner.
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I strongly urge you to do this, that I may be restored to you sooner.
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and more abundantly do I call upon `you' to do this, that more quickly I may be restored to you.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - And I beseech you the more abundantly (the Pauline word, περισσοτέρως) to do this, that I may be restored to you the sooner. The author of the Epistle proceeds here for the first time to speak of himself individually; and what he thus says shows that the Epistle was addressed to some definite circle of Hebrew Christians, and one which he had been among before. What circumstances, whether of imprisonment or other hindrances, were in the way of his revisiting them does not appear. We remark that this verse again reminds us strongly of St. Paul (cf. Philemon 1:22). The possibility may be here noted (see Introduction, p. 12.) that, if the Epistle was composed by one of St. Paul's friends, and sent under his authority, he may have himself dictated this concluding portion (beginning possibly at ver. 17) which is in a more epistolary style than the rest, and contains personal allusions.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) But I beseech you.--Rather, And I exhort you the more (literally, the more abundantly) to do this. All that we can certainly infer from this verse (see Introduction) is that the writer had formerly been associated with those whom he now addresses, and that he is at present hindered from returning to them.
