Hebrews 10:32

Call to remembrance. The writer again addresses his readers directly. They may understand what he means by reflecting on their own past experience as Christians.

The former days. That is, the experiences that came to them soon after conversion. The first intended readers of the book of Hebrews were Jews (see p. 389). As numerous passages in the book of Acts reveal, nonbelieving Jews, from the very first, persecuted their brethren who accepted Christianity.

After ye were illuminated. That is, by the light of the gospel.

Ye endured. Those to whom the writer addresses himself had patiently borne persecution and hardship in the past; why should they become fainthearted now?

Fight. Gr. athlesis, “contest,” “struggle,” “conflict.” Having endured “a great fight,” they should be well prepared to face the afflictions of the present. The nature of this “fight of afflictions” is explained further in vs. 33, 34.