Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third
Thinking, then, that they could find a better, they wander and become wretched, and enter upon pathless places. But those which fell into the fire and were burned[27]
Verse Hebrews 3:12. _TAKE HEED, BRETHREN, LEST THERE BE IN ANY OF YOU_] Take warning by those disobedient Israelites; they were brought out of the house of bondage, and had the fullest promise of a l...
TAKE HEED, BRETHREN - In view of the conduct of the rebellious Jews, and of their fearful doom, be on your guard lest you also be found to have had the same feelings of rebellion and unbelief. See to...
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...
TAKE HEED. Greek. _blepo_. App-133. LEST. Greek. _me._ App-105. ANY. any one. Greek. _tis_. App-123. EVIL. Greek. _poneros._ App-128. DEPARTING. falling away. Compare Luke 8:13; 1 Timothy 4:1. LIV...
_Take heed, brethren, lest there be …_ It is evident that deep anxiety mixes with the warning. _in any of you_ The warning is expressed indefinitely; but if the Epistle was addressed to a small Hebrew...
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...
ΒΛΈΠΕΤΕ. It is evident that deep anxiety mixes with the warning. ἜΣΤΑΙ. The fut. ind. implies a dread that this _will_ be the case. Comp. Luke 11:35, σκόπει μὴ τὸ φῶς … σκότος ἔσται. Colossians 2:8; G...
_CHRIST DEMANDS THAT WE HOLD ON TO OUR FAITH -- HEBREWS 3:12-15:_ Christians must be careful that they do not sin. Sin is a departure from God. Unbelief, in particular, is the root of all such departu...
ΒΛΈΠΕΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΒΛΈΠΩ (G991) видеть, взирать, смотреть. С последующим отрицанием ΜΉΠΟΤΕ (G3379) и _ind._ это слово выражает предупреждение и опасение, связанное с неизбежной текущей ре...
DISCOURSE: 2280 AGAINST DEPARTING FROM GOD Hebrews 3:12. Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God, But exhort, one another daily, wh...
FROM THE LIVING GOD.— Whose _house_ they are said to be, Hebrews 3:6. He is called _living,_ as being ever one and the same; and therefore he must be always equally offended with the same sins....
_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
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...
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. TAKE HEED. To be joined with "Wherefore," Hebrews 3:7. LEST THERE BE, [ estai (G2071)...
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...
LEST THERE BE IN ANY OF YOU. — Better, _lest haply there shall be in any one of you._ (See above, on Hebrews 3:7.) IN DEPARTING. — Better, _in falling away from a Living God._ The heart of unbelief wi...
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...
Βλέπετε ἀδελφοὶ μή ποτε.… “Take heed lest haply” as in Hebrews 12:25; Colossians 2:8, for the more classical ὁρᾶτε μὴ. It is here followed by a future indicative as sometimes in classics. ἔν τινι ὑμῶν...
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...
“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...
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) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. (7) Now consider in the words of David, he shows first by this word "today" that we m...
Take heed, &c. Not to imitate their incredulous obstinacy, lest you never enter into the place of eternal rest, by departing from God by sin. (Witham) --- To abandon Christ is to abandon God, since Ch...
(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,...
12._Take heed, _(or _See_,) _brethren, lest there be at any time in any of you a wicked heart of unbelief, etc. _I have preferred to retain literally what the Apostle states, rather than to give a par...
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...
TAKE HEED, BRETHREN,.... This exhortation is grounded upon the state and case of their ancestors before given, as a warning and caution to the then present Hebrews; and whom the apostle styles "brethr...
In the close of this chapter the apostle makes application of the example which he had produced out of the psalmist unto his present purpose; namely, to dehort the Hebrews from that sin which in them...
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. Ver. 12. _In departing from_] απιστια _parit_ αποστασιαν. Infidelity is the mother of apo...
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...
_Take heed_ Βλεπετε, _see to it_, consider, use care and circumspection; _brethren, lest_ Μηποτε, _lest at any time; there be in any of you_ As there was in your forefathers of old; he speaks to them...
TAKE HEED, BRETHREN, LEST THERE BE IN ANY OF YOU AN EVIL HEART OF UNBELIEF, IN DEPARTING FROM THE LIVING GOD....
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; Here the Spirit applieth the former dreadful example of sin and judgment to the Hebrews, to forewarn them how they sinned as these did, lest they partake of the like vengeance; and so enters h...
Hebrews 3:12 Beware G991 (G5720) brethren G80 lest G3379 be G2071 (G5704) in G1722 any G5100 you...
Hebrews 3:12. LEST THERE BE. The peculiar expression of the original implies that the writer's fear lest there should be, is blended with the feeling that there will somehow be, an evil heart of unbel...
TAKE HEED (βλεπετε). Present active imperative as in Philippians 3:2 (three times) of βλεπω in place of the more usual ορατε. Solemn warning to the Jewish Christians from the experience of the Isra...
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...
BE CAREFUL. "This example of sin and punishment should teach you a lesson. You will be sinning just as they did if you reject the gospel, or if having once accepted it, then renounce it....
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....
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 3:12 Drawing on Psalms 95:1, Hebrews 1:1 warns against allowing the unbelief of a...
_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 10:12; 1 Thessalonians 1:9; Genesis 8:21; Hebrews 10:38;...
Note how the following exhortation is colored by the O. T. citation : evil heart; the today; be hardened; take heed [β λ ε π ε τ ε]. See to it. Often in warnings or admonitions : sometimes with ajpo f...
Take heed, lest there be in any of you — As there was in them. An evil heart of unbelief — Unbelief is the parent of all evil, and the very essence of unbelief lies in departing from God, as the livin...
The apostle having propounded the example of the Israelites, in the foregoing verses, to the consideration of the Hebrews, here he advises them to take care that they do not imitate the old Israelites...