comp. ver. 10. So but they, Ps. cvi. 43 ; comp. also Luke vii. 5 ; Is. liii. 7, in the Hebrew. — oux tyvutav, they have not known) This is the aireiOeia, not to believe ; the apapria, sin, is described, ver. 9, iKSipaffav, they tempted. Concerning both, again, ver. 12, 13, and ver. 17, 18. — rag odovg ftov, My ways) in which I wished to lead them as My flock into a place of rest.
11. 'fig u/Aoffa, as [so] / sware) The oath preceded the forty years. — si, if) The Apodosis omits something for the sake of euphemism, which has the force of the oath itself: si here is negative, as r\ ^ is affirmative, ch. vi. 14. — s/VgXgu<roi>ra/, they shall enter) by My ways. — sig rr,v xardiravff/v [LQV, into My rest) in the promised land. The people, the sheep ; Ps. xcv. 7. nnUE, rest, is their benefit [their peculiar privilege], Ps. xxiii. 2.
12. EXISTS) This word depends on dib, wherefore, ver. 7 : the Apodosis here to ver. 7 [where see the note] not incorrectly also brings in the word brethren ; 1 Thess. iii. 7. The same word is found at ch. xii. 25. We must not trust to the heart; Jer. xvii. 9. — w vors — amffriag, lest — of unbelief) Observe the con nection. Christ is vusros, faithful, ver. 2 ; therefore we ought to be Kiaroi, faithful to Him, not unfaithful (unbelievers), as our fathers were in regard to Moses; ver. 18, 19, ch. iv. 2, 3, vi. 12. In like manner Paul places in opposition the faithfulness of God and the faithlessness of men, Rom. iii. 2, 3 ; 2 Tim. ii. 13. — earai, lest there should be) Care must also be extended to the future on account of the greatness of the danger. He uses the fut. indie, in preference to the pres. subj. — Kovypa, evil) An amffroc, unbelieving people ; JH an evil nation and unhappy ; comp. xaxoug xaxws, Matth. xxi. 41. — sv rti anoffrrivou, in departing) The antithesis is -rporfsp^w/^a, let us come unto, ch. iv. 16, and u-7ro<rra<r2w£, substance [i.e. solid confidence], presently at ver. 14 ; comp. Jer. vi. 8, w a^offrrj y 4^?rf //<OL' "^ ffo^j ^ n°t my S0l(l depart from thee. This whole passage of the apostle agrees with Jer. xvii. 5, 6 : EniKATAPATOS 6 avQpWTrog, og ryv EAIIIAA fc^g/ IT' avfyuvov — nai AHO KTPIOT AIIO2TH rj Karfia aurou — oux o-vjxsra/ orav eXfy ra, AFA0A. CURSED is the man who TRUSTETH in man, and whose heart DEPARTETH/?'om the LORD: he shall not see when GOOD cometh. — «<r6 0soD £wvrog, from the living God) The life of GOD most powerfully and effectually animates our
faith. The living God is also praised, ch. ix. 14, x. 31, xii. 22.