Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Hebrews 3:11
Verse Hebrews 3:11. So I sware in my wrath] God's grief at their continued disobedience became wrath at their final impenitence, and therefore he excluded them from the promised rest.
Verse Hebrews 3:11. So I sware in my wrath] God's grief at their continued disobedience became wrath at their final impenitence, and therefore he excluded them from the promised rest.
SO I SWARE IN MY WRATH - God is often represented in the Scriptures as “swearing” - and usually as swearing by himself, or by his own existence. Of course this in figurative, and denotes a strong affi...
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...
HEBREWS 3:7 TO HEBREWS 4:13. With this warning the comparison between Christ and Moses changes into an exhortation, based on Psalms 95:7. This psalm is concerned with the house or community of which M...
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...
THEY, &C. Literally If (App-118. a) they shall. INTO. Greek. _eis._ App-104. REST. Greek. _katapausis._ See Acts 7:49....
_So I sware in my wrath_ The reference is to Numbers 14:28-30; Numbers 33:13. _They shall not enter_ This is the correct rendering of the idiom (here used by a Hebraism) "_if_they shall enter." _my r...
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...
CH. 3. SUPERIORITY OF CHRIST TO MOSES (1–6). EXHORTATION AGAINST HARDENING THE HEART (7–19)...
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...
ὩΣ, “_as_” (Heb. אֲשֶׁר), not “_so_” (ὥς) as in A. V., for ὥς is rare in prose, and is not found in the N. T. ὬΜΟΣΑ. The reference is to Numbers 14:28-30; Numbers 32:13. ΕἸ ἘΛΕΎΣΟΝΤΑΙ, “IF _they shal...
_CHRIST DESIRES HEARTS THAT ARE NOT HARDENED -- HEBREWS 3:7-11:_ It is our duty to hear the voice of Jesus, our great High Priest, speaking in the gospel. We must hear and obey the voice of Christ "To...
ΏΣ (G5613) как, согласно тому, как. ΏΜΟΣΑ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΟΜΝΎΩ (G3660) клясться. ΌΡΓ (G3709) _dat. sing._ гнев, ярость, ΕΊ (G1487) если. Это слово является переводом_евр._ частицы и эквивалентом...
MY REST.— _Canaan_ is so called, as they reposed there, after the labours of a long war, as well as the fatigues of a tedious march; and perhaps, as entering upon a course of stated worship, it might...
B. _Warnings and exhortations with respect to pilgrimage. Hebrews 3:7-19_ 1. _Israel's pilgrimage: Hebrews 3:7-11_ _TEXT_ Hebrews 3:7-11...
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO MOSES. (Hebrews 3:7-12) In the first six verses of our present chapter four things were before us. First, the call to "consider" the Apostle and High Priest of our profession. Of o...
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) So [ hoos (G5613)] - 'As in conformity with the fact that.' I SWARE - the oath of God preceded the forty years. NOT, [ ei (G1487)] - '...
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...
3:11 rest. (h-13) A Hebraism involving a strong negative. Compare Numbers 14:23 ; Mark 8:12 ....
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. — Rather, _as_ (Hebrews 4:3). It is with these as it was with their fathers, the generations that came out of Egypt, unto whom God sware, “They shall not enter into My rest” (Numbers 14:21). The f...
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...
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...
ὡς ὤμοσα. “As I sware,” _i.e._, justifying my oath to exclude them from the land. εἰ εἰσελεύσονται, the common form of oath with εἰ which supposes that some such words as “God do so to me and more als...
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...
SUPERIOR TO MOSES Hebrews 3:1 Dwell on those opening words:- _holy_, such is God's ideal for us; _brethren_, by reason of our union with Christ, and with one another in Him; _partakers, etc_., God is...
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...
LESSONS FROM THE UNBELIEF IN THE WILDERNESS The writer turns to a quotation from Psalms 95:7-11. This Psalm is a call to worship God and a warning against a disobedient heart. The writer was warning t...
_As I have sworn in my wrath: [1] if they shall enter into my rest. But if here implies the same as they shall not. See Mark viii. 12. And that this is the sense here, appears by the 18th verse, where...
(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,...
11._So I sware, etc. _It was the punishment of their madness, that they were deprived of the rest promised them. Moreover, the Lord calls the land, where they might have had their dwelling_, his rest....
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 I SWARE IN MY WRATH,.... Swearing is ascribed to God, to show the certainty of the thing spoken of; as of mercies, when he swears in love, and by his holiness; so here, of punishment, when he swear...
HAVING demonstrated the pre-eminence of the Lord Christ above Moses in their respective ministries about the house of God, the apostle, according unto his design and method, proceeds unto the applicat...
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Ver. 11. _They shall not enter_] This the apostle propounds to unbelievers of his time, that they may beware. _Alterius perditio tua sit ca...
HEB. 3:9-12. WHEN YOUR FATHERS TEMPTED ME, PROVED ME, AND SAW MY WORKS FORTY YEARS. WHEREFORE I WAS GRIEVED WITH THAT GENERATION, AND SAID, THEY DO ALWAYS ERR IN (THEIR) HEART; AND THEY HAVE NOT KNOW...
_Wherefore_ To speak after the manner of men; _I was grieved_ Highly displeased; _with that generation_ With the generality of this people; _and said, They do always_ Notwithstanding all that I have d...
SO I SWARE IN MY WRATH; Numbers 14:23. MY REST; the rest of Canaan, so called in Deuteronomy 12:9-10, and which is a type of the rest of heaven. Perseverance in faith and obedience is essential to a w...
A warning lesson from the history of Moses:...
SO I SWORE IN MY WRATH, THEY SHALL NOT ENTER INTO MY REST,)...
"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...
THEY SHALL NOT ENTER: _ Gr._ if they shall enter...
7-13 Days of temptation are often days of provocation. But to provoke God, when he is letting us see that we entirely depend and live upon him, is a provocation indeed. The hardening of the heart is...
SO I SWARE IN MY WRATH: such were their provocations and temptations of their Redeemer, that he determined their punishment; the certainty of which he fixed by an irreversible oath, which is the highe...
Hebrews 3:11 So G5613 swore G3660 (G5656) in G1722 My G3450 wrath G3709 shall G1525 not G1487 enter...
Hebrews 3:11. So; rather ‘as,' though without much difference in meaning: the acts corresponded to the punishment is the meaning of ‘as;' the punishment corresponded to the acts is the meaning of so....
AS I SWARE (ως ωμοσα). "Correlating the oath and the disobedience" (Vincent). First aorist active indicative of ομνυω, old verb for solemn oath (Hebrews 6:13).THEY SHALL NOT ENTER (ε εισελευσοντα)...
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...
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:_ Oh, that he had more consideration at our hands! Cons...
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...
I WAS ANGRY. In scripture, human body-parts and human emotions are used as figures-of-speech to communicate to us His way of doing things, in a form which we can understand. GOD IS SPIRIT! THEY SHALL...
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...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 3:7 The contrasting of Jesus and Moses (Hebrews 3:1) leads to a comparison of their followers’ responses....
_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 1:34; Deuteronomy 1:35; Deuteronomy 2:14; Hebrews 3:18;...