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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
So I sware in my wrath,.... Swearing is ascribed to God, to show the certainty of the thing spoken of; as of mercies, when he swears in love, and by his holiness; so here, of punishment, when he swears in wrath, in indignation, in sore displeasure, and the threatened evil is irrevocable and inevitable: they shall not enter into my rest; into the land of Canaan, called God's rest, because he...
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
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) What a dreadful warning this is to us! If God has had forty years’ patience with you, take heed, sinner, take heed, lest he swear in his wrath that ye shall not enter into his rest, for your entrance into that rest depends upon his good will and pleasure. He will have mercy on whom he will have mercy, and he will have compassion on whom...
Charles H. Spurgeon
So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. There was that “evil heart” in the Israelites, is there not a danger that it may be in you also who are partakers of the like nature?