Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Hebrews 3:16
some. Greek. tines. App-124.
when... heard. having heard.
provoke. Greek. parapikraino. Only here. Often in the Septuagint
out of. Greek. ek. App-104.
some. Greek. tines. App-124.
when... heard. having heard.
provoke. Greek. parapikraino. Only here. Often in the Septuagint
out of. Greek. ek. App-104.
Verse 16. _FOR SOME, WHEN THEY HAD HEARD, DID PROVOKE_] There is a various reading here, which consists merely in the different placing of an _accent_, and yet gives the whole passage a different tur...
FOR SOME - Some of the Hebrews who came out of Egypt. The truth was that a large proportion of them rebelled against God, and provoked him to indignation. It is somewhat remarkable that though “all” 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 3:7 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...
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)...
_some, when they had heard, did provoke_ Rattier, "Who (τίνες) when they heard, embittered (Him)"? This is the reading of the Peshito. It would have been absurd to use the word "some" of 600,000 with...
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...
ΤΊΝΕΣ; Who? The rec. has τινές with LM. See the note. 16. ΤΊΝΕΣ ΓᾺΡ�; “For _who_ (τίνες) _when they heard, embittered_ (_Him_)?” This (τίνες;) is the reading of the Peshito. It would have been absurd...
_ 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...
ΤΊΝΕΣ _nom. pl._ от ΤΊΣ (G5101) кто? Вопросительное prop. вводит риторический вопрос, ΆΚΟΎΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. от_ ΆΚΟΎΩ (G191) слышать. Part, может быть уступительным: "несмотря на то, что они ус...
FOR SOME, WHEN THEY HAD HEARD, DID PROVOKE:— The reasoning is thus: "Do you every day exhort one another to steadfastness in the faith; omit no opportunity of doing so: do not delay, or put it off; fo...
_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 3:13-19) 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...
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. FOR SOME - rather, interrogatively, 'For WHO was it that, when they had heard (referring to "if ye will...
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...
3:16 not (l-12) Or 'was it not indeed.'...
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...
FOR. — The connecting link is the thought of “the provocation.” A slight change in the accentuation of the first Greek word effects a complete change in the sense: _For who when they had heard did pro...
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
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...
τίνες γὰρ ἀκούσαντες παρεπίκραναν : “For who were they who after hearing provoked?” He proceeds further to enforce his warning that confidence begun is not enough, by showing that they who provoked Go...
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...
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...
Let us not flatter ourselves with having quitted Egypt by our baptism, unless we also quit that opposition, and that disobedience of our heart to the laws and maxims of the gospel. The Israelites, und...
(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,...
16_For some, when they had heard, etc. _David spoke of the fathers as though that whole generation were unbelieving; but it appears that some who truly feared God mingled with the wicked. The apostle...
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...
FOR SOME, WHEN, THEY HAD HEARD,.... The Arabic version adds, "his voice"; the law on Mount Sinai; the voice of words, with the voices and thunderings that attended it; the book of the covenant read; t...
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...
For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses. Ver. 16. _Howbeit not all_] Yet all fell in the wilderness save Joshua and Caleb. Good men are oft wrapped...
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...
_For some_, &c. As if he had said, You have need to attend; be watchful and circumspect. _For some_ Yea, many; _when they had heard_ The voice of God in giving the law, and the various instructions wh...
DID PROVOKE; displease God by disobedience....
FOR SOME, WHEN THEY HAD HEARD, DID PROVOKE; HOWBEIT NOT ALL THAT CAME OUT OF EGYPT BY MOSES....
The danger of unbelief:...
"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...
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...
FOR SOME, WHEN THEY HAD HEARD, DID PROVOKE: this is a rational enforcement of the former duty pressed; it being as possible for them to provoke Christ as others, they should look to it, and not harden...
Hebrews 3:16 For G1063 who G5100 heard G191 (G5660) rebelled G3893 (G5656) Indeed G235 not G3756 all...
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...
WHO (Τινες). Clearly interrogative, not indefinite (some).DID PROVOKE (παρεπικραναν). First aorist active indicative of παραπικρινω, apparently coined by the LXX like παραπικρασμος (verse Hebrews...
Hebrews 3:16 The Warnings of Advent. The true translation of these words is this: "For who were they, who, when they had heard, did provoke? Nay, were they not all who came out of Egypt with Moses?...
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...
WHO HEARD? The answer is: _all the people._ But see notes on next verse....
_Borne, when they had heard, did provoke_ SOME BUT NOT ALL BAD I. MANY HEAR THE WORD OR VOICE OF GOD TO NO ADVANTAGE, BUT ONLY TO AGGRAVATE THEIR SIN. Their hearing renders their sin provoking unto G...
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...
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...
_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...
Deuteronomy 1:36; Deuteronomy 1:38; Hebrews 3:10; Hebrews 3:9; Jo
For some, when they had heard, did provoke [τ ι ν ε ς γ α ρ α κ ο υ σ α ν τ ε ς π α ρ ε π ι κ ρ α ν α ν]. Rend. who, when they heard, did provoke ? The interrogative tinev calls special attention to t...
Were they not all that came out of Egypt — An awful consideration! The whole elect people of God (a very few excepted) provoked God presently after their great deliverance, continued to grieve his Spi...