Hebreus 3:11

11 Assim jurei na minha ira: Não entrarão no meu descanso.

Hebreus 3:11 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 3:11

So I sware in my wrath
Swearing is ascribed to God, to show the certainty of the thing spoken of; as of mercies, when he swears in love, and by his holiness; so here, of punishment, when he swears in wrath, in indignation, in sore displeasure, and the threatened evil is irrevocable and inevitable:

they shall not enter into my rest;
into the land of Canaan, called God's rest, because he promised it, and gave it to the Israelites as their rest; and where he himself had a place of rest; and where he gave the Messiah, the author of peace and rest; and which was a type of heaven, that rest from toil and labour, which remains for the people of God; and into which it is said this generation did not enter; for the Jews say F6,

``the generation of the wilderness have no part in the world to come:''

but this seems too harsh, for doubtless there were many who died in the wilderness, that went safe to heaven, notwithstanding all their sins and provocations.


FOOTNOTES:

F6 Tzeror Hammor, fol. 118. 1.

Hebreus 3:11 In-Context

9 onde vossos pais me tentaram, pondo-me � prova, e viram por quarenta anos as minhas obras.
10 Por isto me indignei contra essa geração, e disse: Estes sempre erram em seu coração, e não chegaram a conhecer os meus caminhos.
11 Assim jurei na minha ira: Não entrarão no meu descanso.
12 Vede, irmãos, que nunca se ache em qualquer de vós um perverso coração de incredulidade, para se apartar do Deus vivo;
13 antes exortai-vos uns aos outros todos os dias, durante o tempo que se chama Hoje, para que nenhum de vós se endureça pelo engano do pecado;
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