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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 we see that they could not enter in,.... To God's rest, the land of Canaan, for they died by the plague before the Lord, and their carcasses fell in the wilderness, before they came to it, Numbers 14:37 and the reason was, because of unbelief; their distrust of God, his power, and his providence; this instance is produced by the apostle, to show the evil nature of unbelief, and the sad effects...
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
So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. 4:1. Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. I left out the “us” because that is inserted by the translators and should not be there. The promise is left to somebody, it does not say to us -- “a promise being left of entering into his rest, any of you should...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. It is those who believe not who have God’s curse. If you do not rest upon Christ as your salvation, you, too, shall hear God swear that you shall not enter into his rest. This exposition consisted of readings from Hebrews 3; Heb_4:1-9.
Charles H. Spurgeon
And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest but to them that believed not? So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief. It was not the sons of Anak that kept them out, it was not the waste howling wilderness; it was nothing but their own unbelief. This exposition consisted of readings from Hebrews 2, 3.