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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Hebrews 3 The apostle having discoursed, in the preceding chapters, concerning the dignity of Christ's person, and his wondrous grace in the assumption of human nature, and suffering in the room and stead of his people, exhorts the Hebrews in this to a serious consideration of him, attention to him, and faith in him, and constancy in it; the arguments he uses to engage them to...
John Gill
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation,.... דור המדבר, "the generation of the wilderness", as the Jews often call them; and which they say was more beloved than any generation (e); and yet they will not allow them a part in the world to come; [See comments on Hebrews 3:11]. When God is said to be grieved with them, it is to be considered as an anthropopathy, as speaking after the manner of...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter the apostle applies what he had said in the chapter foregoing concerning the priesthood of Christ, I. In a serious pathetic exhortation that this great high priest, who was discovered to them, might be seriously considered by them, ver. 1-6. II. He then adds many weighty counsels and cautions, ver. 7, to the end. Attention Due to Christ. (a. d. 62.) 1 Wherefore, holy brethren,...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) God grant that none of this congregation may be of that mind, who having named the name of Christ and being known as his people, continue to grieve him one way and another, to put him to the test by their doubts to...
Charles H. Spurgeon
(As the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. So I swore in my wrath, They shalt not enter into my...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do always err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. They do err; they did always err in their heart. God is very tender to errors of judgment — errors of the head. But to err in the heart — this is the heart of erring, and very provoking to the Most High; and for it always to be so after having tasted the bitter fruit of...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: when your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. Do not provoke your God by your quibbling, or...