[8] Col. i. 15, 19.
[9] Acts vii. 53.
[10] Gal. iii. 19.
[11] =agagonta=.
[12] Matt. xxv. 31.
[13] Luke xxii. 43. The genuineness of the verse is somewhat doubtful.
[14] =mê pararyômen= (ii. 1).
[15] Matt. xxi. 33, sqq.
[16] Heb. x. 29.
[17] Ps. viii. 4.
[18] Ps. viii. 2.
[19] 1 Cor. xv. 27.
[20] =êlattôsas=.
[21] Cf. Acts ii. 30.
[22] Chap. ii. 4.
[23] =geusêtai= (ii. 9).
[24] John xvii. 5.
[25] =chariti=.
[26] =archêgon= (ii. 10).
[27] =di' hon=.
[28] =di' hou=.
[29] Chap. xii. 7.
[30] =ho hagiazôn= (ii. 11).
[31] Ps. xxii. 22.
[32] Chap. ii. 13.
[33] Isa. viii. 18
[34] Chap. ii. 14.
[35] _Humiliation of Christ_, p. 46.
[36] Chap. v. 4, 5.
[37] =epilambanetai= (ii. 16).
Hebrews iii. i-iv. 13 (R.V.).
"Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High-priest of our confession, _even_ Jesus; who was faithful to Him that appointed Him as also was Moses in all his house. For He hath been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, by so much as he that built the house hath more honour than the house. For every house is builded by some one; but He that built all things is God. And Moses indeed was faithful in all his house as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken; but Christ as a Son, over His house; Whose house are we, if we hold fast our boldness and the glorying of our hope firm unto the end. Wherefore, even as the Holy Ghost saith,
To-day if ye shall hear His voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, Like as in the day of the temptation in the wilderness, Wherewith your fathers tempted _Me_ by proving _Me_, And saw My works forty years. Wherefore I was displeased with this generation, And said, They do always err in their heart: But they did not know My ways; As I sware in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest.
Take heed, brethren, lest haply there shall be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, in falling away from the living God: but exhort one another day by day, so long as it is called to-day; lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin: for we are become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm unto the end: while it is said,
To-day if ye shall hear His voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.
For who, when they heard, did provoke? nay, did not all they that came out of Egypt by Moses? And with whom was He displeased forty years? was it not with them that sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? And to whom sware He that they should not enter into His rest, but to them that were disobedient? And we see that they were not able to enter in because of unbelief.
Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it. For indeed we have had good tidings preached unto us, even as also they: but the word of hearing did not profit them, because they were not united by faith with them that heard. For we which have believed do enter into that rest; even as He hath said,
As I sware in My wrath, They shall not enter into My rest:
although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For He hath said somewhere of the seventh _day_ on this wise, And God rested on the seventh day from all His works; and in this _place_ again,
They shall not enter into My rest.
Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter in because of disobedience, He again defineth a certain day, saying in David, after so long a time, To-day, as it hath been before said,