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HEB. III. 12, 13.

heart, I will not again curse the ground
any more for man's sake; for the ima-
gination of man's heart is evil from
his youth; neither will I again smite
any more every thing living as I have
At that time
done, Gen. viii. 21.
they shall call Jerusalem the throne
of the LORD; and all the nations shall
be gathered unto it, to the name of the
LORD to Jerusalem; neither shall
they walk any more after the imagi-
nation of their evil heart, Jer. iii. 17.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined
their ear, but walked in the counsels
and in the imagination of their evil
heart, and went backward, and not
forward, vii. 24. Yet they obeyed
not, nor inclined their ear, but walked
every one in the imagination of their
evil heart: therefore I will bring
upon them all the words of this cove-

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them, Prov. i. 32. In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, and speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood, Isa. lix. 13. Thus saith the LORD, Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the LORD, Jer. xvii. 5. The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go take unto thee a wife of whoredoms, and children of whoredoms, for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD, Hos. i. 2.

d See on John v. ver. 26.

VER. 13.

̓Αλλὰ παρακαλεῖτε ἑαυτοὺς καθ' ἑκάστην ἡμέραν, ἄχρις οὗ τὸ σήμερον καλεῖται· nant, which I commanded them to do 3 ἵνα μὴ σκληρυνθῇ τις ἐξ ὑμῶν ἀπάτῃ τῆς

ye

but they did them not, xi. 8. And
have done worse than your fathers; for
behold, ye walk every one after the
imagination of his evil heart, that it
they may not hearken unto me, xvi.
12. The heart is deceitful above all
things, and desperately wicked: who
can know it, xvii. 9. And they said,
There is no hope: but we will walk
after our own devices, and we will
every one do the imagination of his
evil heart, xviii. 12. For from within,
out of the heart of man, proceed evil
thoughts, adulteries, fornications,
murders, thefts, covetousness, wick-
edness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil
eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness,
Mark vii. 21, 22.

ἁμαρτίας.

But a exhort one another ↳ daily, while is called To-day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

eNow the just shall live by faith; but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him, Heb. x. 38. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven, xii. 25. Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways, Job xxi. 14. Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them, xxii. 17. For I have kept the ways of the LORD, and have not wickedly departed from my God, Psal. xviii. 21. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy

a And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works; Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching, Heb. x. 24, 25. Who when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord, Acts xi. 23. And ye know how we exhorted and comforted, and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, 1 Thess. ii. 11. Wherefore comfort one another with these words, iv. 18. Wherefore comfort yourselves together and edify one another, even as also ye do, v. 11. Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine, 2 Tim. iv. 2. b See on ver. 7. clause 2.

c He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered, Prov. xxviii. 26. He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand, Isa. xliv. 20. The pride of thine heart hath

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HEB. III. 13-16.

deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground, Obad. 3. For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me, Rom. vii. 11. That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, Eph. iv. 22. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed, Jam. i. 14.

VER. 14.

Μέτοχοι γὰρ γεγόναμεν τοῦ Χριστοῦ, Ba vang tình áp xào TỐC LỌC TÁCH MÉXPL τέλους βεβαίαν κατάσχωμεν·

a For we are made partakers of Christ," bif we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

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a Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus, ver. For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, vi. 4. For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure: but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness, xii. 10. And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree, Rom. xi. 17. But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption, 1 Cor. i. 30. And this I do for the Gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you, ix. 23. For we being many are one bread, and one body for we are all partakers of that one bread, x. 17. That the Gentiles should be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the Gospel, Eph. iii. 6. And they that have believing masters, let them not despise them, because they are brethren; but rather do them service, because they are faithful and beloved, partakers of the benefit. These things teach and exhort, 1 Tim. vi. 2. But rejoice, inasmuch

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as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy, 1 Pet. iv. 13. The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed, v. i. That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his son Jesus Christ, 1 John i. 3.

b And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end, Heb. vi. 11. See also on ver. 6.

clause 3.

VER. 15.

Ἐν τῷ λέγεσθαι· Σήμερον ἐὰν τῆς φωνῆς αὐτοῦ ἀκούσητε, μὴ σκληρύνητε τὰς καρδίας ὑμῶν, ὡς ἐν τῷ παραπικρασμῷ.

While it is said, a To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts as in the provocation.

a See on ver. 7, 8.

VER. 16.

ἀλλ ̓ οὐ πάντες οἱ ἐξελθόντες ἐξ Αἰγύπτου Τινὲς γὰρ ἀκούσαντες παρεπίκραναν, dià Mwσews.

For a some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit bnot all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

a See on ver. 9, 10.

b But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went, and his seed shall possess it, Numb. xiv. 24. Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun, 30. But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, which were of the men that went to search the land, lived still, 38. Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD, Deut. i. 36. But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither; encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it,

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38. Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart. Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God. And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God. And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old. As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in, Josh. xiv. 7-11. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace, Rom. xiv. 4, 5.

VER. 17.

Τίσι δὲ προσώχθισε τεσσαράκοντα ἔτη ; Οὐχὶ τοῖς ἁμαρτήσασιν, ὧν τὰ κῶλα ἔπεσεν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ ;

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same spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ. But with many of them, God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer. Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore, let him that standeth take heed lest he fall. There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it, 1 Cor. x. 1-13.

c Your carcases shall fall in this wilderness ; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole But with whom was he grieved forty number, from twenty years old and years? was it not with them that had upward, which have murmured against But as for you, sinned, whose carcases fell in the wil-me, Numb. xiv. 29. your carcases, they shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness, 32, 33. For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed. So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed, and dead from among the people, Deut. ii. 15, 16. Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of field, and as the handful after the harmen shall fall as dung upon the open vest man, and none shall gather them, Jer. ix. 22.

derness?

a See on ver. 10. clause 1.

b But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbered, when they numbered the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai. For the LORD had said of them, they shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun, Numb. xxiv. 64, 65. Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea; and did all eat the same spiritual meat; And did all drink the

VER. 18.

Τίσι δὲ ὤμοσε μὴ εἰσελεύσεσθαι εἰς

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VER. 19. cari ;

Και βλέπομεν ότι ουκ ηδυνήθησαν εισελ. And a to whom sware he that they Sety disturlar. should not enter into his rest, b but to So we see that a they could not enter them that believed not?

in becuuse of unbelief.

a Let us therefore fear, lest, a proa See on ver. 11.

mise being left us of entering into his b And the Lord said unto Moses, rest, any of you should seem to come How long will this people provoke short of it. For unto us was the Gosme? and how long will it be ere they pel preached, as well as unto them : believe me, for all the signs which I but the word preached did not profit have shewed among them, Num. xiv. them, not being mixed with fait h in 11. And the LORD spake unto Moses them that heard it, Heb. iv. 1, 2. He and Aaron, Because ye believed me that believeth and is baptized shall be not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the saved; but he that believeth not shall children of Israel, therefore ye shall be damned, Mark xvi. 16. He that not bring this congregation into the believeth on him is not condemned : land which I have given them, xx. 12. but he that believeth not is condemned Notwithstanding ye would not go up, already, because he hath not believed but rebelled against the command in the name of the only begotten Son ment of the LORD your God. And ye of God, John iii. 1. He that believmurmured in your tents, and said, eth on the Son bath everlasting life : Because the LORD hated us, he hath and he that believeth not the Son shall brought us forth out of the land of not see life; but the wrath of God Egypt, to deliver us into the hands of abideth on him, 36. That they all the Amorites, to destroy us. Whither might be damned who believed not shall we go up ? our brethren have the truth, but had pleasure in undiscouraged our heart, saying, the righteousness, 2 Thess. ii. 12. He people is greater and taller than we ; that believeth on the Son of God hath the cities are great and walled up to the witness in himself: he that beheaven; and moreover we have seen | lieveth not God hath made him a liar; the sons of the Anakims there. Then because he believed not the record I said unto you, Dread not, neither that God gave of his Son, 1 John v. be afraid of them. The LORD your 10. I will therefore put you in reGod which goeth before you,

he shall membrance, though ye once knew this, fight for you, according to all that he / how that the LORD, having saved the did for you in Egypt before your eyes, people out of the land of Egypt, afterAnd in the wilderness, where thou ward destroyed them that believed hast seen how that the LORD thy God not, Jude 5. bare thee, as a man doth bear his son,

CHAP. IV.-VER. 1. in all the way that ye went, until ye

Φοβηθωμεν ούν μη ποτε καταλειπομέcame into this place. Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD

νης επαγγελίας εισελθείν εις την κατά.

your God, Deut. i. 26–32. Likewise when

παυσιν αυτού, δοκή τις εξ υμών ύστερηκέναι. the LORD sent you

from Kadesh-bar- Let a us therefore fear, lest b a promise nea, saying, Go up and possess the being left us of entering into c his rest, land which I have given you ; then d any of you should seem to come short ye rebelled against the commandment of it. of the Lord your God, and ye be- a Let us labour therefore to enter lieved him not, nor hearkened to his into that rest, lest any man fall after voice, ix. 23. Yea, they despised the the same example of unbelief, ver. pleasant land, they believed not his 11. Therefore we ought to give the word. But murmured in their tents, more earnest heed to the things which and hearkened not unto the voice of we have heard, lest at any time we the LORD. Therefore he lifted up should let them slip. For if the word his hand against them, to overthrow spoken by angels was stedfast, and them in the wilderness, Psal. cvi. every transgression and disobedience 2426.

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HEB. IV. 1.

How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him, ii. 1-3. Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled, xii. 15. See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not that refus ed him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven, 25. Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation, xiii. 7. A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth and is confident, Prov. xiv, 16. Happy is the man that feareth alway; but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief, xxviii. 14. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear into their hearts, that they shall not depart from me, Jer. xxxii. 40. Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear, Rom. xi. 20. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall, 1 Cor. x. 12.

b There remaineth therefore, a rest to the people of God, ver. 9. After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise, Numb. xiv. 34. Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever but now the LORD saith, Be it far from me, for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed, 1 Sam. ii. 30. For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief make the faith of God without effect? God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged, Rom. iii. 3, 4. If we

| believe not, yet he abideth faithful; he cannot deny himself, 2 Tim. ii. 13.

c For we which have believed do enter into rest; as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works. And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest, ver. 3-5. See also on chap. iii.

ver. 11.

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d Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say unto me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity, Matt. vii. 21-23. And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man which built his house upon the sand; and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell great was the fall of it, 26, 27. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, xxiv. 48-51. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them, xxv. 1-3. But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat his men-servants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; The lord of that servant will come in a day when

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