οὗ ἐπείρασάν με …, “where your fathers tempted me,” i.e., in the wilderness. Others take οὗ as = “with which,” attracted into genitive by πειρασμοῦ. ἐν δοκιμασίᾳ, “in putting me to the proof”. καὶ εἶδον … ἔτη, “and saw my works forty years,” the wonders of mercy and of judgment. In the psalm τεσσ. ἔτη are joined to προσώχθισα, διὸ being omitted. The same connection is adopted in Hebrews 3:17.
Verse Hebrews 3:9. _WHEN YOUR FATHERS TEMPTED ME_] It would be better to translate ου _where_ than _when_, as the Vulgate has done in its _ubi_; and this translation has been followed by _Wiclif, Cov...
PROVED ME - “As if they would have made an experiment how much it was possible for me to bear.” - Doddridge. The meaning is: “they put my patience to a thorough trial.” AND SAW MY WORKS - That is, my...
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...
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...
GREATER THAN THE GREATEST (Hebrews 3:1-6)...
PROVED. Greek. _dokimazo,_ to put to the test, but the texts read _en dokimasia,_ in, or by,. testing. SAW. Greek. _eidon._ App-133....
_when_ Rather, "where," i.e. at Massah, or in the wilderness. The rendering "wherewith" or "with which temptation," would have been more naturally expressed in other ways. _proved me_ The better read...
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...
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...
CH. 3. SUPERIORITY OF CHRIST TO MOSES (1–6). EXHORTATION AGAINST HARDENING THE HEART (7–19)...
ἘΝ ΔΟΚΙΜΑΣΊΑΙ אABCDEM. 9. ΟὟ, not “_when_” as in the A. V. but “_where_,” i.e. at Massah, or in the wilderness. The rendering “_wherewith_” (R. V.) or “with which temptation,” would have been more na...
_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...
ΟΎ (G3757) где (adv. места), ΈΠΕΊΡΑΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΙΡΆΖΩ (G264) проверять, испытывать, искушать (TLNT). ΠΑΤΈΡΕΣ _пот. pl. от_ ΠΆΤΗΡ (G239) отец. Здесь используется, чтобы указать на близос...
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...
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. WHEN, [ Hou (G3739)] - 'Where;' namely, in the wilderness. YOUR FATHERS. The authority of the ancients is not conclusive (B...
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...
3:9 where (g-1) Some translate 'wherewith,' that is, 'with which temptation.'...
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....
PROVED ME] RV 'by proving me,' i.e. by presumptuously putting to the proof. SAW MY WORKS] 'my works of judgment following on their unbelief,' or, more probably, 'in spite of their experience of my wor...
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...
According to our best MSS. this verse will run thus: _Where_ (or, _wherewith_)_ your fathers tempted by trial, and saw My works forty years._ The meaning of the Hebrew (with which the LXX. very nearly...
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...
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,...
9._Tempted, etc. _This word is to be taken in a bad sense; it means to provoke in a proud and insulting manner, which we express in French by saying, _defier comme en depitant _ For though God had oft...
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...
WHEN YOUR FATHERS TEMPTED ME,.... This the apostle cites and repeats, to expose the glorying of the Jews in their ancestors; to dissuade them from following their sinful practices; to deter them from...
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...
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Ver. 9. _Tempted me_] God must be trusted, but not tempted, as he is, when men, 1. Question and awake his power; 2. Limit the Ho...
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...
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...
A warning lesson from the history of Moses:...
WHEN YOUR FATHERS TEMPTED ME, PROVED ME, AND SAW MY WORKS FORTY YEARS....
"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...
WHEN YOUR FATHERS TEMPTED ME; in the time and place forementioned, the fathers from whom you derive your being and corruption, yet glory in them and their traditions, whose state is aggravated from yo...
Hebrews 3:9 Where G3757 your G5216 fathers G3962 tested G3985 (G5656) Me G3165 tried G1381 (G5656) Me...
Hebrews 3:9. WHEN; rather ‘where,' a common meaning of the Greek word. TEMPTED ME, PROVED ME. The true reading is, ‘tempted me in' (or by) ‘proving' [me]. Strong passion is some excuse for sin. When...
WHEREWITH (ου). Literally, "where" (the wilderness) as in Deuteronomy 8:15.TEMPTED ME BY PROVING ME (επειρασαν εν δοκιμασια). No word for "me." The Israelites "tested" God "in putting to the proo...
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...
THERE YOUR ANCESTORS. They annoyed God by their rebellion. Even though he gave them food and water by supernormal means, they still would not love Him....
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...
Acts 13:8; Acts 7:36; Amos 2:10; Deuteronomy 11:7; Deuteronomy 29:2;...
When [ο υ]. Rend. where. See ou= after erhmov wilderness, Deuteronomy 8:15. Tempted me, proved me [ε π ε ι ρ α σ α ν ε ν δ ο κ ι μ α σ ι α]. Lit. tried (me) in proving. The text differs from LXX, whic...
Where your fathers — That hard — hearted and stiff — necked generation. So little cause had their descendants to glory in them. Tempted me — Whether I could and would help them. Proved me — Put my pat...