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Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 3:9

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 your line of successive rebellion, Acts 7:51-53. They have imbittered my Spirit by their unbelief; for upon the want of water, they questioned his power, wisdom, truth, and providence, to the denial of all, and sometimes multiplied it, Numbers 16:1-50, &c. Proved me; a discontented quarrel with,... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 3:10

Wherefore I was grieved with that generation; because they thus tempted and proved him by hardening their hearts in unbelief forty years, God the Redeemer, Isaiah 63:16; 1 Corinthians 10:9, was grieved; which is attributed to him improperly, who is not subject to passions; but as men grown impatient with grievous and oppressive burdens, so he expresseth his dislike, disdain of them, and, resolution to bear no longer, as Amos 2:13. They split on him, as a ship on a sharp point of a rock, so as... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 3:11

So I sware in my wrath: such were their provocations and temptations of their Redeemer, that he determined their punishment; the certainty of which he fixed by an irreversible oath, which is the highest confirmation of vengeance when it cometh from wrath; as of his promise, when it issueth from grace, Numbers 14:27-36; Psalms 95:11; compare Hebrews 6:17,Hebrews 6:18. And the spring of it here is wrath, enraged by their murmurings and unbelief. They shall not enter into my rest: the punishment... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Hebrews 3:7-19

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESHebrews 3:7-19 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 chosen people of God, and yet they provoked Him by their unbelief, and were consequently precluded from entering the rest of Canaan. A promise of rest is also given to us. What is it? It cannot be the Sabbatic rest of God from the work of creation: it cannot be the rest of settling in Canaan. It is... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:7-19

Hebrews 3:7-19 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 eternal. Israel's history in the wilderness is typical throughout. (1) It is a marvellous history from beginning to end. (2) It was a history of solemn and glorious privileges. Is not this a picture of the Christian's life? (3) It is a sad history, full of fearful judgments. Do you understand the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:1-19

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 the declaration of the superiority of Jesus over the angels. Because He is superior over the angelic beings being the Son of God.Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our confession, Christ Jesus ( Hebrews 3:1 );Here we are called upon... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Hebrews 3:1-19

Hebrews 3:1-6 . 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 unites in his glorious person all the honours of Moses as a prophet, and all the honours of Aaron as a priest, and so far eclipses their glory as the celestial house surpasses the earthly. They were only shadows, he is the substance; they were but servants, he is the Lord, the Son and heir of all.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 3:7-8

Hebrews 3:7-8As the Holy Ghost saithScripture1.The authority of the Scripture is not of man, but of the Holy Ghost. 2. The Scriptures are no dumb letter, but the voice of the Holy Ghost, who by them speaketh. 3. The Holy Ghost is God, the Inspirer of the prophets that wrote the Scripture. 4. The Holy Ghost is a distinct person of the Godhead from the Father and the Son, exercising the proper actions of a person inspiring the prophets, inditing the Scriptures, and speaking to the Church. (D.... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 3:9

Hebrews 3:9When your fathers tempted MeHow men can tempt God1.If having means we neglect them, fondly flying to the supposed providence of God; if Christ, having a pair of stairs to come down by, should have cast Himself down from the pinnacle of the Temple, He had tempted God. 2. Men tempt God when, having had evident proof and manifest experience of His wisdom, power, mercy, and goodness, yet if they be driven into any straits, and see no present means to come out, then they murmur against... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Hebrews 3:10-11

Hebrews 3:10-11They do always err in their heartThe errors of the heartI.THE CONDUCT OF MANKIND UPON EARTH IS A MATTER OF GREAT ANXIETY TO OUR FATHER WHICH IS IN HEAVEN. Men are apt to think it a matter of indifference how they behave themselves, so that they do not involve their temporal prospects. Little do they reflect upon the grief that their impiety occasions to the best of benefactors. A lamentable thing it is for them and for others, that they forego the privilege of living in the fear... read more

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