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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Hebrews 3:17

Whose carcasses were laid, or buried in the desert? None of those who were reckoned up (Numbers xiv.) entered the land of Chanaan [Canann], except Josue [Joshua] and Caleb; but then we may take notice, that none were there numbered under twenty years of age, nor the Levites, nor the women. (Witham)

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse 17. _BUT WITH WHOM WAS HE GRIEVED FORTY YEARS?_] I believe it was _Surenhusius_ who first observed that "the apostle, in using the term forty years, elegantly alludes to the space of time which...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BUT WITH WHOM WAS HE GRIEVED FORTY YEARS? - With whom was he angry; see the notes at Hebrews 3:10. WAS IT NOT WITH THEM THAT HAD SINNED - That had sinned in various ways - by rebellion, murmuring, unb...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    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...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    GREATER THAN THE GREATEST (Hebrews 3:1-6)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    HAD. Omit. SINNED. Greek. _hamartano._ App-128. CARCASES. Greek. _kolon_. Only here. See Numbers 14:29 (Septuagint)...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _grieved_ Rather "indignant." See Hebrews 3:10. _whose carcases_ To us the words read as though there were a deep and awful irony in this term (κῶλα), as though, "dying as it were gradually during the...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ἜΠΕΣΕΝ most MSS. ἔπεσαν DE. 17. ΤΊΣΙΝ ΔῈ ΠΡΟΣΏΧΘΙΣΕΝ; “_And with whom was He indignant?_” See Hebrews 3:10. ὯΝ ΤᾺ ΚΩ͂ΛΑ. To us the words read as though there were a deep and awful irony in this term,...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    CH. 3. SUPERIORITY OF CHRIST TO MOSES (1–6). EXHORTATION AGAINST HARDENING THE HEART (7–19)...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    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...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _ 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...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΠΡΟΣΏΧΘΙΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΣΩΧΘΊΖΩ (G4360) негодовать (_см._ Hebrews 3:10). ΆΜΑΡΤΉΣΑΣΙΝ _aor. act. part. masc. pl. dat. от_ ΆΜΑΡΤΆΝΩ (G264) грешить, ΚΏΛΟΝ (G2966) часть тела, кость; здесь: т...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? BUT, [ De (G1161)] - 'Moreover;' not in contrast to Hebrews 3:16, but carryin...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    3:17 carcases (a-18) Lit. 'limbs.' often used for a carcase. Some suppose the idea of the body falling to pieces....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BUT. — Better, _And with whom was He angry forty years_? WHOSE CARCASES. — Literally, _limbs._ The word is taken from the Greek version of Numbers 14:29; and seems intended to convey the thought of b...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    τίσι δὲ προσώχθισε.… “And with whom was He angry forty years?” taking up the next clause of the Psalms 5:10. Again the question is answered by another “Was it not with them that sinned?” [ἁμαρτήσασιν...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    (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...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    17._But with whom was he grieved, _or _angry, etc. _He means that God had never been angry with his people except for just causes, as Paul also reminds us in 1 Corinthians 10:5. Therefore as many chas...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BUT WITH WHOM WAS HE GRIEVED FORTY YEARS?.... As is said in Psalms 95:10, Hebrews 3:10, WAS IT NOT WITH THEM THAT HAD SINNED; not merely by committing personal iniquities, and particular provocation...

  • John Owen’s Exposition of the Epistle to the Hebrews(7 vols)

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    But with whom was he grieved forty years? _was it_ not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? Ver. 17. _Whose carcases fell_] Gr. κωλα. Whose members, joints, limbs. _Cadav...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    WHOSE CARCASSES FELL; NUMBERS 26:64-65....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The danger of unbelief:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    BUT WITH WHOM WAS HE GRIEVED FORTY YEARS? WAS IT NOT WITH THEM THAT HAD SINNED, WHOSE CARCASSES FELL IN THE WILDERNESS?...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    "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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    By these questions the Spirit makes a more lively representation of these unbelieving provokers of God, that his reason may have the more force with them. Do ye observe with whom God was grieved? The...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Hebrews 3:17 Now G1161 whom G5101 angry G4360 (G5656) forty G5062 years G2094 not G3780 sinned G264 ...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    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...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    WITH THEM THAT SINNED (τοις αμαρτησασιν). Dative masculine plural after προσωχθισεν (cf. verse Hebrews 3:10) of the articular first aorist active participle of αμαρτανω (αμαρτησας, not αμαρτων).CAR...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    SINNED SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    WITH WHOM. Note that these people continued to rebel against God during the whole forty year's time. WHO FELL DOWN DEAD. The whole generation who escaped from Egypt in the Exodus, died in the desert!...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:1; Deuteronomy 2:15; Deuteronomy 2:16; Hebrews 3:10;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    The interrogation still continued. "With whom was he displeased forty years? Was it not with them?" etc. Carcasses [τ α κ ω λ α]. N. T. o. LXX for peger, a corpse. Kwlon properly a limb. The idea of d...

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Observe here, The party grieved, God; the parties grieving, THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL: The time of both, FORTY YEARS; the occasion of this grief, sin in general, unbelief in particular, hardness of heart,...

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