Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Hebrews 3:7
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye (f) will hear his voice,
(f) So that God was to speak once again after Moses.
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye (f) will hear his voice,
(f) So that God was to speak once again after Moses.
Verse Hebrews 3:7. _WHEREFORE_ (_AS THE HOLY GHOST SAITH, TODAY_] These words are quoted from Psalms 95:7; and as they were written by David, and attributed here to the Holy Ghost, it proves that Dav...
WHEREFORE - In view of the fact that the Author of the Christian dispensation has a rank far superior to that of Moses. Because Christ has claims on us far greater than those which Moses had, let us h...
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...
HOLY GHOST. App-101. WILL. should....
_Wherefore_ The verb which depends on this conjunction is delayed by the quotation, but is practically found in Hebrews 3:12, "Take heed." Christ was faithful: therefore take heed that ye be not unfai...
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)...
ΔΙΌ. The verb which depends on this conjunction is delayed by the quotation, but is practically found in Hebrews 3:12, βλέπετε. Christ was faithful: therefore take heed that ye be not unfaithful. ΚΑΘῺ...
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...
_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...
ΔΙΌ (G1352) следовательно, посему. Эта частица вводит цитату, которая относится как к ранее сказанному, так и к последующему (Michel), ΛΈΓΕΙ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, ΆΚΟΎΣΗΤΕ _ao...
WHEREFORE, &C.— "We are the people of God, if we continue steadfast: wherefore, let me advise you, and exhort you, in the words of the inspired Psalmist, Today, if ye will hear his voice, harden not y...
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...
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, etc. Exhortation, from Psalms 95:1, not through unbelief to lose share in the spiritual house. WHEREFORE - Seeing we are the h...
11 The destruction of the earth and the heavens is but a crisis in their change (12), for they are not to be made non-existent, but created anew. All things are in a state of flux until the consummati...
3:7 Spirit, (f-7) See Psalms 95:7-11 ....
WHEREFORE] In AV the long quotation from Psalms 95 is treated as a parenthesis, and 'Wherefore' is connected with 'Take heed' in Hebrews 3:12. This is probably correct, but owing to the length of the...
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...
WHEREFORE. — Since without steadfastness all will be lost. With the words introducing the quotation compare Hebrews 9:8; Hebrews 10:15. Whether the marks of parenthesis here introduced in our ordinary...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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,...
He proceeds in his exhortation, that they were to obey Christ speaking to them; and that he might add more weight to it, he confirms it by the testimony of David; for since they were to be sharply goa...
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...
WHEREFORE, AS THE HOLY GHOST SAITH,.... In Psalms 95:7 TODAY IF YOU WILL HEAR HIS VOICE; either the precepts of Christ, to hear which is to obey them; and this is an acknowledgment to Christ as King...
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...
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, Ver. 7. _Wherefore as the Holy Ghost_] It is well observed by Calvin, that the words after "wherefore," toHebrews 3:12, should be...
HEB. 3:7. WHEREFORE AS THE HOLY GHOST SAITH, TODAY IF YE WILL HEAR HIS VOICE, During his Stockbridge period Edwards preached a little four-page MS sermon, probably to the Indians, explaining Hebrews...
Having demonstrated the pre-eminence of Christ above Moses in their respective ministries, the apostle, according to his design and usual method, now proceeds to the application of the truth he had ev...
WHEREFORE; since we are the household of Christ, who is so much greater than Moses. THE HOLY GHOST SAITH; PSALMS 95:7-10. TO - DAY IF YE WILL HEAR HIS VOICE; the command of God is always to-day; for...
A warning lesson from the history of Moses:...
WHEREFORE, (AS THE HOLY GHOST SAITH, TODAY IF YE WILL HEAR HIS VOICE,...
"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...
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...
The Spirit enforceth his counsel for those Hebrews improvement of his doctrine about the gospel Prophet, by alleging a sad example of their fathers refusing to hear and obey him, from HEBREWS 3:7. The...
Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith they have not known my ways: as I sware in my wrath, that they should not enter into my rest."[95]...
Hebrews 3:7 Therefore G1352 as G2531 Holy G40 Spirit G4151 says G3004 (G5719) Today G4594 if G1437 hear...
Hebrews 3:7. WHEREFORE. Since it is only the giving up of your hope that can rob you of this blessedness,... beware of unbelief (a connection that unites the ‘wherefore' with Hebrews 3:12); or lest yo...
WHEREFORE (διο). Probably this inferential conjunction (δια, ο, because of which) goes with μη σκληρυνητε (harden not) in verse Hebrews 3:8 rather than with βλεπετε (take heed) in verse Hebrews 3:12...
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...
SO THEN. "Be warned by the example of Israel!" AS THE HOLY SPIRIT SAYS. The Spirit speaks to us through the written Word. This quotation is from Psalms 95:7-11 Septuagint. IF YOU HEAR. (1) The fact th...
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...
2 Corinthians 6:1; 2 Corinthians 6:2; 2 Peter 1:21; 2 Samuel 23:2;...
Wherefore as the Holy Ghost saith [δ ι ο κ α θ ω ς λ ε γ ε ι τ ο π ν ε υ μ α τ ο α γ ι ο ν]. See on ch. Hebrews 1:6. The formula the Spirit the holy (Spirit) is common in the N. T. with the exception...
Wherefore — Seeing he is faithful, be not ye unfaithful. Psalms 95:7, &c....
The apostle having proved our Lord Jesus Christ to be the great Prophet and Teacher of his church, doth in these words draw an inference from the foregoing conclusion: namely, that seeing Christ is th...