I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
(Hebrews 3:16-19; Hebrews 4:1-13.)
Therefore. х Oun (G3767), C, Lucifer; but A B, Vulgate, read, 'but:' in contrast to the ungodly, Jude 1:4.]
Though ye once - `I wish to remind you, as knowing ALL (namely, that I am referring to. So 'Aleph (') A B, Vulgate, Coptic) once for all' х hapax (G530)]. As already they know all the facts, he needs only to 'remind' them.
The Lord. So 'Aleph ('); but A B, Vulgate, read, 'Jesus,' the true Joshua, God-Saviour. So "Christ" (1 Corinthians 10:4) accompanied the Israelites in the wilderness: "Jesus" is one with the Divine Angel of the covenant (Exodus 23:20-23; Exodus 32:34; Exodus 33:2; Exodus 33:14), the God of the Israelite theocracy.
Saved - brought into a state of safety. Afterward, х to (G3588) deuteron (G1208)] - 'secondly, destroyed them that believed not:' contrasted with His in the first instance having saved them (cf. 1 Corinthians 9:26-27).