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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 3
Christ is the Apostle and High Priest of our profession—Jesus, being
the Son is more than a servant—Now is the time and the day of our
salvation.
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1 WHEREFORE, holy
brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, aconsider the
bApostle and cHigh Priest of our
profession, Christ Jesus;
2 Who was faithful to him that appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house.
3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.
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4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.
5 And Moses verily was faithful in all
his house, as a aservant, for a testimony of those things
which were to be spoken after;
6 But Christ as a son over his own
ahouse; whose bhouse are we, if we hold
fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
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7 Wherefore (as the aHoly
Ghost saith, bTo day if ye will hear his voice,
8 aHarden not your hearts, as
in the bprovocation, in the day of temptation in the
wilderness:
9 When your fathers tempted me,
aproved me, and saw my works forty years.
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10 Wherefore I was grieved with that
ageneration, and said, They do alway err in their
heart; and they have not known my ways.
11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not
aenter into my brest.)
12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any
of you an evil aheart of bunbelief, in
cdeparting from the living God.
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13 But aexhort one another
daily, while it is called bTo day; lest any of you be
hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we
hold the beginning of our confidence astedfast unto the
end;
15 While it is said, To day if ye will hear
his voice, aharden not your hearts, as in the
bprovocation.
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16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.
17 But with whom was he grieved forty years?
was it not with them that had sinned, whose
acarcases fell in the wilderness?
18 And to whom sware he that they should not
enter into his rest, but to them that believed
nota?
19 So we see that they could not enter in
because of aunbelief.
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18a to them that believed not
The unwise think it no great thing not to believe in Christ and/or God. But
that unbelief will cost them in that 'they should not enter into his rest',
that is his kingdom, because of their unbelief. What greater lost could there
be but to be so lost and kept from the presence of God for eternity?
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