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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
But with whom was he grieved forty years?.... As is said in Psalms 95:10, [See comments on Hebrews 3:10], was it not with them that had sinned; not merely by committing personal iniquities, and particular provocations, which all men are guilty of, but by committing public sins; they sinned as a body of men; they joined together in the commission of sin; every sin is grieving to God, because it is...
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
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? God speaks very lovingly of the bodies of his saints but see how he speaks of the bodies of apostates, “whose carcases” as if they were no better than so many brute beasts, “whose carcases fell in the wilderness.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? How he speaks of them, and calls them “carcases”! He never speaks of his children so; and you remember that in the Old Testament the unredeemed man is comparable to the ass. “Thou shall not redeem him; thou shalt break his neck”; but the redeemed man is comparable to the sheep....
Charles H. Spurgeon
But with whom was he grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness? See how the apostle speaks of them; he does not say that their bodies were buried, but that their carcases fell, in the wilderness. Unbelief degrades us into beasts whose carcases fall beneath the poleaxe of judgment. Oh, that we might all be rid of unbelief, that degrading,...