Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another daily, (i) while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
(i) While today lasts, that is to say, so long as the gospel is offered to us.
But exhort one another daily, (i) while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
(i) While today lasts, that is to say, so long as the gospel is offered to us.
Verse Hebrews 3:13. _BUT EXHORT ONE ANOTHER DAILY_] This supposes a state of chose Church fellowship, without which they could not have had access to each other. _WHILE IT IS CALLED TO-DAY_] Use tim...
BUT EXHORT ONE ANOTHER DAILY - This is addressed to the members of the churches; and it follows, therefore: (1) That it is their duty to exhort their brethren; and, (2) That it is their duty to do it...
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)...
EXHORT. Greek. _parakaleo._ App-134. DAILY. Literally according to (Greek. _kata_, as Hebrews 3:8) each day. LEST. in order that (Greek. _hin_ a) not (Greek. _me)_. DECEITFULNESS. Greek. _apate._ S...
_exhort one another_ The verb implies the mutually _strengthening_intercourse of consolation and moral appeal. It is the verb from which comes the word _Paraclete_, i.e. the Comforter or Strengthened...
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...
ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΕΙ͂ΤΕ ἙΑΥΤΟΎΣ. The verb implies the mutually _strengthening_ intercourse of consolation and moral appeal. It is the verb from which comes the word _Paraclete_, i.e. the Comforter or Strengthene...
_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...
ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΕΊΤΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΠΑΡΑΚΑΛΈΩ (G3870) ободрять, наставлять (Attridge; _см._ Romans 12:1). _Praes. imper._ призывает к повторяющемуся или длительному действию, ΕΑΥΤΟΎΣ _acc. pl._ от ΈΑ...
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...
WHILE IT IS CALLED TO-DAY;— That is, "As long as you can use this expression;—every day.—Exhort and encourage one another every day, to a steady perseverance in duty; and do this as often as the day c...
_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...
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. ONE ANOTHER, [ heautous (G1438)] - 'yourselves; let each exhort himself and h...
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...
DECEITFULNESS OF SIN] The sin in view is unbelief culminating in apostasy, for which no doubt many specious reasons were forthcoming....
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...
WHILE IT IS CALLED TO DAY. — Literally, _as long as the “to-day” is called_ (to you), _lest any one of you be hardened by deceit of sin._ As long as they heard the word of God speaking in the Scriptur...
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...
To avoid this, παρακαλεῖ τε ἑαυτοὺς καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν, “Exhort one another daily”. ἑαυτούς is equivalent to ἀλλήλους, see Ephesians 4:32; Colossians 3:13. ἄχρις οὗ τὸ Σήμερον καλεῖται, “as long as t...
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...
_To day. The duration of the present life may be accounted but a day, which God destines for the trial of our faith and obedience; we ought, therefore, to labour hard during the short time of the pres...
(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,...
13.He also pointed out the remedy, so that they might not fall into this wickedness, and that was, to _exhort one another. _For as by nature we are inclined to evil, we have need of various helps to r...
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...
BUT EXHORT ONE ANOTHER DAILY,.... In order to prevent unbelief and apostasy. The phrase is sometimes rendered, "comfort one another", or, "yourselves together", as in 1 Thessalonians 5:11 which the sa...
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...
But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. Ver. 13. _But exhort one another_] A special preservative from apostasy. See my...
HEB. 3:13. BUT EXHORT ONE ANOTHER DAILY, WHILE IT IS CALLED TODAY; LEST ANY OF YOU BE HARDENED THROUGH THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN. _ Blank Bible: _ _ while it is called today_] In this expression ther...
_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...
EXHORT ONE ANOTHER; to be steadfast in the belief and practice of the gospel....
A warning lesson from the history of Moses:...
BUT EXHORT ONE ANOTHER DAILY WHILE IT IS CALLED TODAY, LEST ANY OF YOU BE HARDENED THROUGH THE DECEITFULNESS OF SIN....
"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...
Ver. 13,14 BUT EXHORT ONE ANOTHER DAILY, WHILE IT IS CALLED TO-DAY: the means to avoid the former evil is, to _exhort; _ which, as a private duty, is an earnest, frequent calling on, stirring up, or p...
Hebrews 3:13 but G235 exhort G3870 (G5720) another G1438 daily G2596 G1538 G2250 while G891...
Hebrews 3:13. EXHORT ONE ANOTHER. The verb is very frequent in the Acts and in Paul's Epistles, and occurs four times in this Epistle. Both here and in Hebrews 13:16 (where it is said in the Authorise...
SO LONG AS IT IS CALLED TODAY (αχρις ου το σημερον καλειτα). The only instance in the N.T. of this conjunction (αχρ or αχρις or αχρις ου, etc.) with the present indicative in the sense of "so long a...
SIN SIN (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 3:23). _...
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:_ Oh, that he had more consideration at our hands! Cons...
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;_ Think of him, think how great he is, think what attent...
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...
INSTEAD. "Instead of trying to turn each other away from Christ, you must help one another to believe!" Today. While it is "Today," God's offer of salvation is in effect. But it also implies that it m...
_Exhort one another_ RESTRAINING OF SPIRITUAL INTERCOURSE IN FAMILIES I. THE EVIL OF THE RESTRAINING AMONG NEAR RELATIVES OF FREE INTERCOURSE ABOUT THEIR SOULS, IS EVIDENT from this, first of all 1...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 3:12 Drawing on Psalms 95:1, Hebrews 1:1 warns against allowing the unbelief of a...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 3:7 The contrasting of Jesus and Moses (Hebrews 3:1) leads to a comparison of their followers’ responses....
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...
1 Thessalonians 2:11; 1 Thessalonians 4:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:11; 2 Timothy 4:2;...
While it is called today [α ρ χ ι ς ο υ τ ο σ η μ ε ρ ο ν κ α λ ε ι τ α ι]. Lit. so long as the today is being named. The article points to the former expression - the "today" of ver. 7. It is the day...
But, to prevent it, exhort one another, while it is called To — day — This to — day will not last for ever. The day of life will end soon, and perhaps the day of grace yet sooner....
These words afford us. special remedy against the forementioned evil of apostasy, and that is mutual exhortation to constancy of religion: Exhort one another, ministers the people, and the people thei...