Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Hebrews 3:19
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
They could not enter - though desiring it.
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.
They could not enter - though desiring it.
Verse Hebrews 3:19. _SO WE SEE THAT THEY COULD NOT ENTER IN_] It was no _decree_ of God that prevented them, it was no want of necessary _strength_ to enable them, it was through no deficiency of _Di...
SO WE SEE ... - We see from the direct testimony of the Old Testament that unbelief was the reason why they were excluded from the promised land. Let us learn in view of the reasoning and exhortations...
CHAPTER 3 _ 1. As Son over the house of God, greater than Moses (Hebrews 3:1)_ 2. The danger of unbelief (Hebrews 3:7) 3. The need of faith (Hebrews 3:14)...
HEBREWS 3:1 TO HEBREWS 4:13. As Christ is higher than the angels, so He is _greater than Moses,_ through whom the first covenant was established. The comparison with Moses, however, occupies only a fe...
So then, as the Holy Spirit says, "If today you will hear my voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the Provocation, as happened on the day of the Temptation in the wilderness, where your fathers tri...
GREATER THAN THE GREATEST (Hebrews 3:1-6)...
SO. And. SEE. Greek. _blepo_, as in Hebrews 3:12. BECAUSE OF. Greek. _dia_. App-104.Hebrews 3:2....
_So we see_ Lit. "_and_we observe." The translators of the A. V. seem by their version to regard the words as a logical inference from the previous reasoning. It is better, however, to regard them as...
A solemn warning against hardening the heart [This constant interweaving of warning and exhortation with argument is characteristic of this Epistle. These passages (Hebrews 2:1-4; Hebrews 3:7-19; Heb...
ΚΑῚ ΒΛΈΠΟΜΕΝ. Lit., “AND _we observe_.” Βλέπειν means to see with the eye of the mind and soul, as in Hebrews 2:9; Hebrews 11:1. The translators of the A.V. seem by their version, “_so we see_,” to re...
A SOLEMN WARNING AGAINST HARDENING THE HEART [The constant interweaving of warning and exhortation with argument is characteristic of this Epistle. These passages (Hebrews 2:1-4; Hebrews 3:7-19; Hebre...
CH. 3. SUPERIORITY OF CHRIST TO MOSES (1–6). EXHORTATION AGAINST HARDENING THE HEART (7–19)...
_ CHRIST EXPECTS STEADFASTNESS TO THE END -- HEBREWS 3:16-19:_ It was not all of those who came out of Egypt that rebelled against God. The great majority of them rebelled against Him. They fell in th...
ΒΛΈΠΟΜΕΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΒΛΈΠΩ (G991) смотреть, ΉΔΥΝΉΘΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΔΎΝΑΜΑΙ (G1410) быть способным, с _inf._ Их изгнание из Ханаана — не просто факт, но моральная необходимость (Wes...
SO WE SEE, &C.— _"And thus we see,_ and it is as clear as possible, that the reason why _they could not enter into_ the place designed for their rest, after their wandering in the wilderness, was _bec...
_Our pilgrimageHebrews 3:12-19_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 3:12-19 Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the liv
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO MOSES. (Hebrews 3:13-19) There are two great basic truths which run through Scripture, and are enforced on every page: that God is sovereign, and that man is a responsible creature...
7 The Hebrew of Psa_95:7-11 reads ''as at Meribah" and "the day of Massah", and the passage refers to the twentieth of Numbers. The quotation substitutes their meanings. Meribah is "contention," or "b...
JESUS CHRIST, LORD OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GODS (_b_) Christ is superior also to Moses; for He is Son over the house of God, whereas Moses was only a servant in it....
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 3 2 THE SUPERIOR *APOSTLE 3:1-4:13 JESUS IS SUPERIOR TO MOSES 3:1-6 V1 Brothers and sisters in Christ who belong to God, you share the...
SO WE SEE. — Rather, _And we see._ It is not the general conclusion that is here expressed; but, as in Hebrews 3:18 we read of the _oath_ of exclusion, this verse records the _fact,_ and also states t...
Hebrews 3:13 7. THE JUDGMENT TO COME Malachi 3:13; Hebrews 3:13; Hebrews 4:1 This is another charge to the doubters among the
CHAPTER III. FUNDAMENTAL ONENESS OF THE DISPENSATIONS. Hebrews 3:1 - Hebrews 4:13 (R.V.). "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High-priest of our conf...
They did not believe God could bring them into the promised land in the face of powerful opposition and so they would not attempt its conquest when commanded to go forward. They were rendered weak by...
Διὸ, “wherefore,” since it is only by holding fast our confidence to the end, that we continue to be the house of Christ and enjoy His faithful oversight, _cf._ Hebrews 3:14. Διὸ was probably intended...
to Hebrews 4:13. Chapter s 3 and 4 as far as Hebrews 3:13, form one paragraph. The purpose of the writer in this passage, as in the whole Epistle, is to encourage his readers in their allegiance to Ch...
“HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS” Hebrews 3:12 There is a peril lest familiarity with God's words should beget indifference to them. The path may be trodden hard by the sower's feet. That story of the Wildern...
The argument now passed to the second claim of superiority, that over all human leaders. He is first seen as superior to Moses and Joshua. He is "the Apostle" completely fulfilling the function repres...
EXHORTATION TO FAITHFULNESS So that they will not fall, Christians are to encourage one another every day. This is done so that sin and its tricky ways will not be able to harden a believer in the way...
REFLECTIONS PAUSE, my soul, and cheerfully obey, the Lord the Spirit, and consider, as thou art commanded and hast such abundant reason to do; consider, the Apostle and High Priest of thy profession C...
(7) Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, (8) Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: (9) When your fathers tempted me...
The epistle to the Hebrews differs in some important respects from all those which have been before us; so much so that many have questioned whether it be the writing of the apostle Paul, of Apollos,...
Thus the Lord is set before us as the Apostle and High Priest of believers from among the Jews, the true people. I say,"from among the Jews," not that He is not our Priest, but that here the sacred wr...
SO WE SEE THAT THEY COULD NOT ENTER IN,.... To God's rest, the land of Canaan, for they died by the plague before the Lord, and their carcasses fell in the wilderness, before they came to it, Numbers...
There is some difficulty about these verses, namely, whether they appertain unto and depend upon the discourse foregoing, or whether they are the beginning of another, on which the exhortation in the...
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. Ver. 19. _Because of unbelief_] A bloody sin, John 3:19. No sin will gripe so in hell as this. The devil will keep a holy day there, in res...
HEB. 3:16-19. FOR SOME, WHEN THEY HAD HEARD, DID PROVOKE: HOWBEIT NOT ALL THAT CAME OUT OF EGYPT BY MOSES. BUT WITH WHOM WAS HE GRIEVED FORTY YEARS? (WAS IT) NOT WITH THEM THAT HAD SINNED, WHOSE CARCA...
_So we see_, &c. The conclusion we draw from the whole is, _that they could not enter in because of unbelief_ Though afterward they desired it. In looking over the whole story of the sins of the Israe...
COULD NOT ENTER IN; to the rest of Canaan, typifying the rest of heaven. The great and destructive sin which cuts off the hope of heaven and makes perdition certain, is unbelief....
The danger of unbelief:...
SO WE SEE THAT THEY COULD NOT ENTER IN BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF. The inspired author here defines and justifies his use of the word "today" in connection with his warning to all believers to remain steadfa...
"Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling." Let us keep in mind that this is addressed to Jewish believers. How great a contrast to that which their own religion had taught them! Ea...
14-19 The saints' privilege is, they are made partakers of Christ, that is, of the Spirit, the nature, graces, righteousness, and life of Christ; they are interested in all Christ is, in all he has d...
The execution of the matter sworn was felt by these Hebrews, which should make them and all that read it to dread both their sin and punishment, which the gospel would as justly inflict on them, if un...
Hebrews 3:19 So G2532 see G991 (G5719) that G3754 could G1410 (G5675) not G3756 in G1525 ...
Hebrews 3:19. SO; literally ‘And' [we see], _i.e_ from these facts....
Hebrews 3:16-19. The argument of these verses has been variously interpreted, and the varieties are seen in the difference of the translation. The Authorised Version translates ‘ SOME... HOWBEIT NOT A...
AND WE SEE (κα βλεπομεν). Triumphant conclusion of the exegesis of Hebrews 3:95. "So we see....
Hebrews 3:7 Unbelief in the Wilderness. I. The history of the wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness is most instructive. No Scripture is of private interpretation, but is Catholic and eterna...
Hebrews 3:1. _Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus;_ Think of him, think how great he is, think what attent...
CONTENTS: Christ the Son better than Moses the servant. Warning against unbelief. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Moses. CONCLUSION: We owe to Jesus Christ as the principal messenger sent of Go...
Hebrews 3:1. _Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling,_ who, as the sons of God, are called to eternal glory, _consider the Apostle and Highpriest of our profession,_ that he unite...
THEY WERE NOT ABLE TO GO IN. If _unbelief_ made it impossible for the Israelites to go into the land of Canaan, then _unbelief_ will close the gates of heaven to those who have already started on thei...
_With whom was He grieved_ GOD’S LONG-SUFFERING Now where he saith, “With whom He was angry forty years,” we have here to learn what is the long-suffering of the Lord, who doth not straight punish t...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 3:15 Quoting Psalms 95:7 again, the author draws several points from the failure of the exodus generation (see especially...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Hebrews 3:7 form part of an exhortation, based on the superiority of Christ over Moses, and the conduct of the Jewish people in their relation to Moses. They were the c...
EXPOSITION THE SON SUPERIOR TO MOSES. Here begins the second section of the argument of the first four chapters (see summary given under Hebrews 1:5). But though a new branch of the argument begins, i...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to Hebrews the third chapter. Wherefore, holy brethren (Hebrews 3:1), The word wherefore immediately leads us back to that which is immediately preceding, and that is...
1 John 5:10; 2 Thessalonians 2:12; John 3:18; John 3:36; Jude 1:5;...
So we see they could not enter in — Though afterward they desired it....