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Hebrews 3:18
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into His rest but to them that believed not?
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into His rest but to them that believed not?
Verse 18. _TO WHOM SWARE HE_] God never acts by any kind of caprice; whenever he pours out his judgments, there are the most positive reasons to vindicate his conduct. Those whose carcasses fell in...
AND TO WHOM SWARE HE - note, Hebrews 3:11. BUT TO THEM THAT BELIEVED NOT - That did not confide in God; Deuteronomy 1:32. “Yet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord your God.” In consequence of th...
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...
GREATER THAN THE GREATEST (Hebrews 3:1-6)...
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...
BUT. if not. Greek. _ei me_. BELIEVED NOT. disbelieved or disobeyed. Greek. _apeitheo._ Compare App-128. Hebrews 3:1, and Romans 2:8; Romans 10:21....
_to them that believed not_ Rather, "that _disobeyed_....
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...
ΤΟΙ͂Σ�, “_to them that disobeyed_.”...
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...
ΏΜΟΣΕΝ _aor. act. ind. от_ ΌΜΝΥΜΙ (G3660) клясться, ΕΊΣΕΛΕΎΣΕΣΘΑΙ _fut. med. (dep.) inf. от_ ΕΙΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1525) входить. _Inf._ в косвенной речи, используется в сокращенном семитском усл. обороте, вы...
THAT BELIEVED NOT?— That is, were so obstinate and disobedient as entirely to forfeit all claim to his promise and favour....
_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...
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? TO THEM THAT BELIEVED NOT, [ tois (G3588) apeitheesasin (G544)] - 'to them that disobeyed:' practical u...
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...
3:18 word? (b-23) _ Apeitheo_ . see Note e, John 3:36 . 'Who had not hearkened to the word' is, I apprehend, the true force here. It is taken from the LXX, Numbers 14:43 and Deuteronomy 1:26 , which...
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...
THAT BELIEVED NOT. — Rather, _that disobeyed._ Every part of the solemn sentences of the Psalm is applied to the reader’s conscience, that the effect of the whole warning may be deepened: the nature o...
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...
τίσι δὲ ὤμοσε.… “And to whom swore He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them that obeyed not?” The real cause of their exclusion from the rest prepared for them was their disobedience....
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...
(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...
AND TO WHOM SWARE HE THAT THEY SHOULD NOT ENTER INTO HIS REST,.... As in Psalms 95:11, BUT TO THEM THAT BELIEVED NOT? the Lord; notwithstanding the signs and wonders he showed among them, they would...
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...
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? Ver. 18. _To them that believe not_] Or, that will not be persuaded, uncounsellable persons, that acquies...
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...
_But with whom was he grieved_ Or, _displeased_, as Macknight renders προσωχθισε; _forty years?_ The apostle's answer to this inquiry consists of a double description of them. First, By their sin; _wa...
SWARE HE; NUMBERS 14:12-37....
"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...
To prevent these Hebrews falling, the Spirit repeats the direful oath of God to apostates in the wilderness; the form of which was opened, HEBREWS 3:11: compare NUMBERS 14:30. The matter sworn was, th...
Hebrews 3:18 And G1161 whom G5101 swear G3660 (G5656) would G1525 not G3361 enter G1525 (G5696)...
Hebrews 3:18. BELIEVED NOT, or disbelieved, is the sense rather than disobeyed. The word ‘unbelief,' in Hebrews 3:19, may be used alike of those who have or have not heard the truth; the word, in Hebr...
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...
THAT THEY SHOULD NOT ENTER (μη εισελευσεσθα). Negative μη (cf. ε in verse Hebrews 3:11) and the future middle infinitive in indirect discourse.TO THEM THAT WERE DISOBEDIENT (τοις απειθησασιν). Dat...
Hebrews 3:18 The Hardening Influence of Sin. I. Sin has distinctly this effect, that while it makes repeated sin more easy, it makes repentance more difficult. It makes sin, in a measure, the obvious...
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._ Would God we considered him more! He is supremely wor...
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...
WHEN GOD MADE HIS SOLEMN PROMISE. Numbers 14:22-23; Psalms 95:11. "To show you the sin of rebellion, I ask you to whom did God make this solemn promise: They shall never come in and rest with me'? It...
_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...
HEBREWS 3:1 Jesus Is Superior to the Mosaic Law. Having concluded that Jesus is superior to the mediators of the Mosaic law (angels, Hebrews 2:2), the author now establishes Jesus’ superiority to Mose...
_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...
Deuteronomy 1:26; Deuteronomy 1:34; Deuteronomy 1:35; Deuteronomy 9:23;...
To them that believed not [τ ο ι ς α π ε ι θ η σ α σ ι ν]. Rend. to them that disobeyed. :Hebrews 4 CHAPTER IV Christian salvation, having been presented as lordship over the world to come, and as de...