希伯來書 3:7-8 RCUVTS

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 3:7-19

Here the apostle proceeds in pressing upon them serious counsels and cautions to the close of the chapter; and he recites a passage out of Ps. 95:7; where observe, I. What he counsels them to do?to give a speedy and present attention to the call of Christ. ?Hear his voice, assent to, approve of, and consider, what God in Christ speaks unto you; apply it to yourselves with suitable affections and endeavours, and set about it this very day, for to-morrow it may be too late.? II. What he cautions... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 3:7-19

3:7-19 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 tried to test me, and, in consequence, experienced for forty years what I could do. So my anger was kindled against that generation, and I said, 'Always they wander in their hearts; they do not know my ways.' So I swore in my anger, 'Very certainly they shall not enter in to my rest.'" Have a... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:7

Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith ,.... In Psalm 95:7 today if you will hear his voice ; either the precepts of Christ, to hear which is to obey them; and this is an acknowledgment to Christ as King of saints, and is a testimony of love to him, and is wellpleasing in his sight; and in which the saints find pleasure themselves, and profit also: or the Gospel of Christ, which is a voice of love, grace, and mercy; of peace and reconciliation; of pardon and righteousness; of liberty,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 3:8

Harden not you hearts ,.... There is a natural hardness of the heart; the heart of man is like a stone, destitute of spiritual life, motion, and activity; it is senseless, stupid, impenitent, stubborn, and inflexible, on which no impressions can be made, but by powerful grace: and there is an acquired, habitual, and voluntary hardness of heart, to which men arrive by various steps; as entertaining pleasing thoughts of sin; an actual commission of it, with frequency, till it becomes... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 3:7

Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today - These words are quoted from Psalm 95:7 ; and as they were written by David, and attributed here to the Holy Ghost, it proves that David wrote, by the inspiration of God's Holy Spirit. As these words were originally a warning to the Israelites not to provoke God, lest they should be excluded from that rest which he had promised them, the apostle uses them here to persuade the Christians in Palestine to hold fast their religious privileges, and,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 3:8

Harden not your hearts - Which ye will infallibly do, if ye will not hear his voice. Provocation - Παραπικρασμος· From παρα , signifying intensity, and πικραινω , to make bitter; the exasperation, or bitter provocation. "The Israelites provoked God first in the wilderness of Sin, (Pelusium), when they murmured for want of bread, and had the manna given them, Exodus 16:4 . From the wilderness of Sin they journeyed to Rephidim, where they provoked God a second time for want of... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 3:7

Verse 7 He proceeds in his exhortation, that they were to obey Christ speaking to them; and that he might add more weight to it, he confirms it by the testimony of David; for since they were to be sharply goaded, it was better, for the sake of avoiding offense, to bring forward another person. Had he simply reproached them for the unbelief of the fathers, they would have less favorably attended to him; but when he brought forward David, it was less offensive. Now, the import of the whole is, —... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 3:8

Verse 8 8.Then follows, Harden not your hearts By which words is intimated that our rebellion against God flows from no other fountain than willful wickedness, by which we obstruct the entrance of his grace, We have indeed by nature a heart of stone, and there is in all an innate hardness from the womb, which God alone can mollify and amend. That we, however, reject the voice of God, it happens through a spontaneous obstinacy, not through an external impulse, a fact of which every one is a... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 3:1-19