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VER. 7.

HEB. III. 7.

Διὰ, καθὼς λέγει τὸ Πνεῦμα τὸ ἅγιον Σήμερον ἐὰν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσητε,

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To-day if ye will hear his voice,

a The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing, Heb. ix. 8. The Spirit of the LORD spake by me, and his word was in my tongue, 2 Sam. xxiii. 2. He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call him Lord, saying, Matt. xxii. 43. For David himself saith by the Holy Ghost, the Lord said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool, Mark xii. 36. Men and brethren, this Scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus, Acts i. 16. And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers, xxviii. 25. For the phophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost, 2 Pet. i. 21. See also on Acts viii. ver. 29.

b But exhort one another daily, while it is called to-day: lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin, ver. 13. While it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts as in the provocation, 15. (Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To-day after so long a time; as it is said, To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, iv. 7. For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand, To-day if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into

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my rest, Psal. xcv. 7-11, Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth, Prov. xxvii. 1. Whatsoever thy

hand findeth to do, do it with thy

might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave whither thou goest, Eccl. ix. 10. Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near, Isa. lv. 6. We then as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee; behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation,) 2 Cor. vi. 1, 2. Go to now, ye that say to-day or to-morrow we will go into such a city and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? it is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. For that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall live, and do this, or that, iv. 13-15.

c But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me, Psal. lxxxi. 11. Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways, 13. Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear; and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David, Isa. lv. 3. While he yet spake, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them and behold a voice out of the cloud, which said, This is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him, Matt. xvii. 5. Verily, verily, I say unto you the hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall live, John v. 25. To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out, x. 3. And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd, 16. My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, 27. Behold, I stand at the door, and

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a 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 while it is called to-days lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin, ver. 12, 13. But when Pharaoh saw that there was respite he hardened his heart, and hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said, Exod. viii. 15. Wherefore then do ye bearden your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? when he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed? 1 Sam. vi. 6. Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God, 2 Kings xvii. 14. Now be ye not stiff-necked as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you, 2 Chron. xxx. 8. And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart, from turning unto the LORD God of Israel, xxxvi. 13. But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, and hearkened not to thy commandments, Neh. ix. 16. He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered? Job. ix. 4. Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardened his heart shall fall into mischief, Prov. xxviii. 14. He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy, xxix. 1. Yet they

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hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers, Jer. vii. 26. But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee; for they will not hearken unto me: for all the house of Israel are impudent and hard-hearted. Behold, I have made thy face strong against their faces, and thy forehead strong against their fore

heads. As an adamant harder than

flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house, Ezek. iii. 7-9. But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him, Dan. v. 20. But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts, Žech. vii. 11, 12. For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them, Matt. xiii. 15. But when divers were hardened, and believed not, but spake evil of that way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, disputing daily in the school of one Tyrannus, Acts xix. 9. But after thy hardness and impenitent heart, treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God; Who will render to every man according to his deeds, Rom. ii. 5, 6.

b And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them? Numb. xiv. 11. Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my

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Voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it, 22, 23. And at Taberah, and at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah, ye provoked the LORD to wrath. Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice. Ye have been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you, Deut. ix. 22-24. Yet they tempted and provoked the most high God, and kept not his testimonies, Psal. lxxviii.

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c And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the LORD, saying, Is the LORD among us, or not? Exod. xvii. 7. Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah, Deut. vi. 16. And they tempted God in their heart by asking meat for their lust, Psal. lxxviii. 18. But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert, cvi. 14. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents, 1 Cor. x. 9.

VER. 9.

Οὗ ἐπείρασάν με οἱ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἐδοκίμασάν με, καὶ εἶδον τὰ ἔργα μου τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη·

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but teach them thy sons and thy sons' sons, 9. But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did, xi. 7. And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land, xxix. 2. And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all their nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you, Josh. xxiii. 3. And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season, xxiv. 7. Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John, what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the Gospel is preached, Luke vii. 22.

b And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness, Numb. xiv. 33. And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments orno, Deut. viii. 2. Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years, 4. For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto them the LORD Sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey, Josh. v. 6. Also I brought you up from the land of Egypt, and led you forty years through the wilder

When your fathers tempted me, proved a and saw my works b forty years. a Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagle's wings, and brought you unto myself, Exod. xix. 4. And the LORD said unto Moses, Thus thou shalt say unto the children of Israel, ye have seen that I have talked with you from heaven, xx. 22. Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you, Deut. iv. 3. Only take heed to thy-ness, to possess the land of the Amoself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life:

rite, Amos ii. 10. He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness

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forty years, Acts vii. 36. the time of forty years their manners in the

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VER. 10.

`HEB. III. 9-11.

Διὸ προσώχθισα τῇ γενεᾷ ἐκείνῃ, καὶ εἶπον· ̓Αεὶ πλανῶνται τῇ καρδίᾳ· αὐτοὶ δὲ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τὰς ὁδούς μου

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And about | into the world, and men loved darkness suffered he rather than light, because their deeds wilderness, were evil. For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved, John iii. 19, 20. And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not, viii. 45. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient, Rom. i. 28. And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all might be damned who believe not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness, 2 Thess. ii. 10-12.

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart, and they have not known my ways.

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a And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart, Gen. vi. 6. And they put away the strange gods from among them, and served the LORD: and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel, Judg. x. 16. How oft did they provoke him in the wilderness, and grieve him in the desert, That thy way may be known upon Psal. lxxviii. 40. But they rebelled earth, thy saving health among all, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore nations, Psal. lxvii. 2. Forty years he was turned to be their enemy, and long was I grieved with this genehe fought against them, Isa. lxiii. 10.ration, and said, It is a people that do And when he had looked round about err in their heart, and they have not on them with anger, being grieved known my ways, xcv. 10. He has for the hardness of their hearts, he not dealt so with any nation: and as saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine for his judgments, they have not known hand. And he stretched it out: and them. Praise ye the Lord, cxlvii. 20. his hand was restored whole as the For my people is foolish, they have other, Mark iii. 5. And grieve not not known me; they are sottish the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye children, and they have none underare sealed unto the day of redemption, standing: they are wise to do evil, Eph. iv. 30. but to do good they have no knowledge, Jer. iv. 22. And the way of peace they have not known, Rom. iii. 17.

b Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God, ver. 12. And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God, Psal. lxxviii. 8. But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment, Isa. xxviii. 7. My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God, Hos. iv. 12. And this is the condemnation, that light is come

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So a I sware in my wrath, •They shall not enter into b my rest.)

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a And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because For we of unbelief, ver. 18, 19. which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world, iv. 3. And the LORD said, I have

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pardoned according to thy word: But|tion see that good land, which I sw are

to give unto your fathers, Deut. i. 34, 35. And the space in which we c ame from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted

VER. 12.

Βλέπετε, ἀδελφοί, μή ποτε ἔσται ἕν τινι ὑμῶν καρδία πονηρὰ ἀπιστίας, ἐν τῷ ἀποστῆναι ἀπὸ Θεοῦ ζῶντος.

a Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you ban evil heart of unbelief, c in departing from the living God.

as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD. Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, have tempted me now these ten times, and have not heark-out from among the host, as the LORD ened to my voice; Surely they shall sware unto them, ii. 14. not see the land which I sware unto See on chap. iv. ver. 9. their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it, Numb. xiv. 20-23. Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwelt in the valley. Tomorrow turn you, and get you into the | wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, 25. How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me. Say unto them, As truly as I live, saith the LORD, as ye have spoken in mine ears, so will I do to you: Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, which have murmured against me, Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun, 27-30. I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil congregation, that are gathered together against me in this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die, 35. And the LORD's anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying, Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: Save Čaleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD. And the LORD's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was consumed, xxxii. 1013. And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wrath, and sware, saying, Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil genera

a Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward, How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that hear him, Heb. ii. 1-3. Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled, xii. 15. And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you, Matt. xxiv. 4. But take heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in the synagogues ye shall be beaten; and ye shall be brought before rulers and kings for my sake, for a testimony against them, Mark xiii. 9. But take heed: behold, I have foretold you all things, 23. Take ye heed, watch and pray, for ye know not when the time is, 33. And he said, Take heed that ye be not deceived: for many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and the time draweth near; go ye not therefore after them, Luke xxi. 8. For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee, Rom. xi. 21. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall, 1 Cor. x. 12.

b And the LORD smelled a sweet savour, and the LORD said in his

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