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Hebrews 3:10
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known My ways.
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known My ways.
Verse Hebrews 3:10. _WHEREFORE I WAS GRIEVED_] God represents himself as the _Father_ of this great Jewish _family_, for whose comfort and support he had made every necessary provision, and to whom h...
WHEREFORE I WAS GRIEVED - On the word “grieved,” see the notes at Ephesians 4:30. The word here means that he was offended with, or that he was indignant at them. THEY DO ALWAYS ERR IN THEIR HEART - T...
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...
GRIEVED. Greek. _prosochtizo._ Only here and Hebrews 3:17. Many times in the Septuagint, including Psalms 95:10, whence this is quoted. THAT. The texts read "this". GENERATION. Greek. _genea,_ natio...
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...
_I was grieved_ Rather, "I was indignant." The Greek word is derived from the dashing of waves against a bank. It only occurs in the N. T. here and in Hebrews 3:17, but is common in the LXX. _with tha...
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...
ΤΗ͂Ι ΓΕΝΕΑ͂Ι ΤΑΎΤΗΙ. This reading (אABDM Vulg. &c.) differs from the LXX. (ἐκείνῃ) but is an intended and admissible change. See the note. 10. ΠΡΟΣΏΧΘΙΣΑ, “_I was indignant_.” The word is derived fro...
_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...
ΤΕΣΣΑΡΆΚΟΝΤΑ (G5062) сорок, ΈΤ _acc. pl._ от ΈΤΟΣ (G2094) год, _асс._ времени. Слова "сорок лет" относятся либо к предшествующему: "ваши отцы испытывали меня сорок лет" либо к последующему: "сорок ле...
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 I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. GRIEVED, [ prosoochthisa (G4360)] - literally, burdened, 'displeased.' Com...
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...
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...
I WAS GRIEVED WITH THAT GENERATION. — Rather, _I was angry with this generation._ The Hebrew is very strong: “I loathed a (whole) generation.” The first word, “Wherefore,” is not found in the Psalm, b...
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 προσώχθισα, “wherefore I was greatly displeased”. In the psalm the Hebrew verb means “I loathed,” elsewhere in the LXX it translates verbs meaning “I am disgusted with,” “I spue out,” “I abhor,” _...
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...
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway (h) err in [their] heart; and they have not known my ways. (h) They are brutish and angry....
(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,...
10._And I said, etc. _This was God’s sentence, by which he declared that they were destitute of a sound mind, and he adds the reason, _For they have not known my ways. _In short, he regarded them as p...
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 I WAS GRIEVED WITH THAT GENERATION,.... דור המדבר, "the generation of the wilderness", as the Jews often call them; and which they say was more beloved than any generation e; and yet they w...
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 I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in _their_ heart; and they have not known my ways. Ver. 10. _I was grieved_] The Hebrew text hath it, I was nauseated, and re...
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...
"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...
WHEREFORE I WAS GRIEVED WITH THAT GENERATION; because they thus tempted and proved him by hardening their hearts in unbelief forty years, God the Redeemer, ISAIAH 63:16 1 CORINTHIANS 10:9, WAS GRIEVED...
Hebrews 3:10 Therefore G1352 angry G4360 (G5656) that G1565 generation G1074 And G2532 said G2036 (G5627) always...
Hebrews 3:10. I WAS GRIEVED is somewhat feeble; displeased, offended, deeply pained, is nearer the thought. The word means properly what is a burden, physical or mental, ‘grieved' being etymologically...
AND SAW (κα ειδον). "And yet saw."WHEREFORE (διο). Not in the LXX, but it makes clear the argument in the Psalm.I WAS DISPLEASED (προσωχθισα). First aorist active of προσοχθιζω, late compound f...
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...
FOR THAT REASON. God was angry and disgusted with the very people He had saved! Their attitude (heart) was bad....
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 Thessalonians 2:10; Ephesians 4:30; Genesis 6:6; Hebrews 3:12;...
Wherefore I was grieved [δ ι ο π ρ ο σ ω χ θ ι σ α]. The Hebrew omits wherefore. It was inserted because of the transfer of forty years to the preceding clause. The verb proswcqisa I was grieved, only...
Wherefore — To speak after the manner of men. I was grieved — Displeased, offended with that generation, and said, They always err in their hearts — They are led astray by their stubborn will and vile...