“ When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. ”
Proved me - “As if they would have made an experiment how much it was possible for me to bear.” - Doddridge. The meaning is: “they put my patience to a thorough trial.” And saw my works - Tha...
Hebrews 3:1 to Hebrews 4:13 . As Christ is higher than the angels, so He is greater than Moses, through whom the first covenant was established. The comparison with Moses, however, occupies on...
proved . Greek. dokimazo, to put to the test, but the texts read en dokimasia, in, or by,. testing. saw . Greek. eidon. App-133.
9. Tempted, etc. This word is to be taken in a bad sense; it means to provoke in a proud and insulting manner, which we express in French by saying, defier comme en depitant For thou...
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. When your fathers tempted me - It would be better to translate οὑ where than when, as the Vulgate has done in its ubi; and this...
Wherefore, &c.— "We are the people of God, if we continue steadfast: wherefore, let me advise you, and exhort you, in the words of the inspired Psalmist, Today, if ye will hear his voice, harde...
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. When, х Hou ( G3739 )] - 'Where;' namely, in the wilderness. Your fathers. The authority of the ancients is not...
Jesus Christ, Lord of the Household of Gods ( b ) Christ is superior also to Moses; for He is Son over the house of God, whereas Moses was only a servant in it.
According to our best MSS. this verse will run thus: Where (or, wherewith ) your fathers tempted by trial, and saw My works forty years. The meaning of the Hebrew (with which the LXX. very nearl...
CHAPTER III. FUNDAMENTAL ONENESS OF THE DISPENSATIONS. Hebrews 3:1 - Hebrews 4:13 (R.V.). "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High-priest of...
Superior to Moses Hebrews 3:1-11 Dwell on those opening words:- holy , such is God's ideal for us; brethren , by reason of our union with Christ, and with one another in Him; partakers, etc...
The argument now passed to the second claim of superiority, that over all human leaders. He is first seen as superior to Moses and Joshua. He is "the Apostle" completely fulfilling the function repre...
(7) Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, Today if ye will hear his voice, (8) Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: (9) When your fathers tempted m...
When your fathers tempted me ,.... This the apostle cites and repeats, to expose the glorying of the Jews in their ancestors; to dissuade them from following their sinful practices; to deter them fr...
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. Ver. 9. Tempted me ] God must be trusted, but not tempted, as he is, when men, 1. Question and awake his power; 2. Limit the...
Having demonstrated the pre-eminence of Christ above Moses in their respective ministries, the apostle, according to his design and usual method, now proceeds to the application of the truth he had e...
"Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling." Let us keep in mind that this is addressed to Jewish believers. How great a contrast to that which their own religion had taught them! E...
Cautions against Apostasy. A. D. 62. 7 Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will...
When your fathers tempted me; in the time and place forementioned, the fathers from whom you derive your being and corruption, yet glory in them and their traditions, whose state is aggravated from...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Hebrews 3:7-19 form part of an exhortation, based on the superiority of Christ over Moses, and the conduct of the Jewish people in their relation to Moses. They wer...
Hebrews 3:7-19 Unbelief in the Wilderness. I. The history of the wanderings of the Israelites in the wilderness is most instructive. No Scripture is of private interpretation, but is Catholic and...
Hebrews 3:1 . Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus: Oh, that he had more consideration at our hands!...
Hebrews 3:1 . Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, who, as the sons of God, are called to eternal glory, consider the Apostle and Highpriest of our profession, that he un...
EXPOSITION THE SON SUPERIOR TO MOSES . Here begins the second section of the argument of the first four chapters (see summary given under Hebrews 1:5 ). But though a new branch of the...
A warning lesson from the history of Moses:
Acts 13:8 ; Acts 7:36 ; Amos 2:10 ; Deuteronomy 11:7 ; Deuteronomy 29:2 ; Deuteronomy 4:3 ; Deuteronomy 4:9 ; Deuteronomy 8:2 ; Deuteronomy 8:4 ; Exodus 19:4 ; Exodus 20:22 ; Joshua 23:3...
Where your fathers — That hard — hearted and stiff — necked generation. So little cause had their descendants to glory in them. Tempted me — Whether I could and would help them. Proved me — Put my...