George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Hebrews 3:8
This alludes to the 17th chapter of Exodus, where the history of provocations and contradictions of the Israelites is related at large.
This alludes to the 17th chapter of Exodus, where the history of provocations and contradictions of the Israelites is related at large.
Verse Hebrews 3:8. _HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS_] Which ye will infallibly do, if ye _will not_ hear his voice. _PROVOCATION_] παραπικρασμος. From παρα, signifying _intensity,_ and πικραινω, to _make bit...
HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS - Do not render the heart insensible to the divine voice and admonition. A hard heart is that where the conscience is seared and insensible; where truth makes no impression; whe...
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 3:7 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...
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...
HARDEN. Greek. _skleruno._ See Acts 19:9. PROVOCATION. Greek. _parapikrasmos._ Only here and Hebrews 3:15. Used in the Septuagint in Psalms 95:8, from which this is quoted. Compare...
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...
_harden not your hearts_ Comp. Acts 19:9. Usually _God_is said to harden man's heart (Exodus 7:3, &c.; Isaiah 63:17; Romans 9:18) an anthropomorphic way of
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...
ΜῊ ΣΚΛΗΡΎΝΗΤΕ. Comp. Acts 19:9. Usually _God_ is said to harden man’s heart (Exodus 7:3, &c.; Isaiah 63:17; Romans 9:18), an anthropomorphic way of expres
_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...
ΣΚΛΗΡΎΝΗΤΕ _praes._/aor. _conj. act. от_ ΣΚΛΗΡΎΝΩ (G4645) сушить, высушивать, делать твердым, ожесточать (Michel). И _praes._, и _aor._ здесь обозначают одно и то же. ΠΑΡΑΠΙΚΡΑΣΜΌΣ (G170) огорчение,...
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...
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS. This here only is used of man's act: usually of God's (). When man is the agent,...
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...
PROVOCATION and TEMPTATION are translations of the Heb. proper names, Massah and Meribah. For the instances of unbelief and apostasy connected with these places see Exodus 17:1; Numbers 20:1; Deuteron...
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...
IN THE DAY OF TEMPTATION. — Better, _like the day of the temptation._ As in the LXX., so here, two words which in the Hebrew are proper names (“as at Meribah, and as in the day of Massah”) are transla...
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...
μὴ σκληρύνητε, the prohibitory subjunctive, _v_. Burton, p. 162. “The figure is from the stiffening by cold or disease, of what ought to be supple and pliable” (Vaughan). [The verb occurs first in Hip...
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...
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...
Harden not your hearts, as in the (g) provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: (g) In the day that they troubled the Lord, or struggled with him....
(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,...
8.Then follows, _Harden not your hearts _By which words is intimated that our rebellion against God flows from no other fountain than willful wickedness, by which we obstruct the entrance of his grace...
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...
HARDEN NOT YOU HEARTS,.... There is a natural hardness of the heart; the heart of man is like a stone, destitute of spiritual life, motion, and activity; it is senseless, stupid, impenitent, stubborn,...
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...
Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: Ver. 8. _Harden not your hearts_] Some hearts are so hard that neither ministry, nor misery, nor miracle, no...
HEB. 3:8. HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS, AS IN THE PROVOCATION, IN THE DAY OF TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS: Again, as often, Hebrews appears in _Religious Affections : _ 10. 'Tis an evidence that true reli...
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...
HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS, AS IN THE PROVOCATION, IN THE DAY OF TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS,...
A warning lesson from the history of Moses:...
"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...
OLBGrk; HARDEN NOT YOUR HEARTS: to help in the former duty the Spirit subjoins this negative counsel. That is styled hard, which will not yield to any impression: make not your heart a stone, so as no...
Hebrews 3:8 not G3361 harden G4645 (G5725) your G5216 hearts G2588 as G5613 in G1722 rebellion G3894 In...
Hebrews 3:8. AS IN THE DAY OF PROVOCATION; LIKE AS IN THE DAY OF TEMPTATION IN THE WILDERNESS. These clauses probably refer to two distinct occasions. The two words which are here translated ‘provocat...
HARDEN NOT (μη σκληρυνητε). Prohibition with μη and first aorist (ingressive) active subjunctive of σκληρυνω, late verb from σκληρος (dried up, stiff, hard) as in Acts 19:9; Romans 9:18.AS IN THE P...
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...
DO NOT BE STUBBORN. Compare Exodus 16:3; Exodus 17:1-7. "After seeing the _hand of God_ in Egypt, they still were stubborn and rebelled against God. Don't you make that same mistake!...
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...
1 Corinthians 10:9; 1 Samuel 6:6; 2 Chronicles 30:8; 2 Chronicles 36:13;...
Harden not [μ η σ κ λ η ρ υ ν η τ ε]. In N. T. mostly in this epistle. Comp. Acts 19:9; Romans 9:18, see note. The group of kindred words consists of sklhrov hard (see on Matthew 25;...
As in the provocation — When Israel provoked me by their strife and murmurings. In the day of temptation — When at the same time they tempted me, by distrusting my power and goodness. Exodus 17:7....