Beware therefore
Of rejecting the Gospel, and those excellent truths of it; since
forgiveness of sin and a justifying righteousness are said to be
had in no other way, but in and through Christ; take heed
therefore,
lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the
Prophets:
some think that the apostle refers to two places in the Prophets,
which he puts together, and therefore uses the plural number; the
one in ( Isaiah 28:14
) from whence the character of the persons is taken, "ye
despisers", or scornful men, who are addressed; and the other in
( Habakkuk
1:5 ) where is to be found what is said to them; but rather
the latter place is what is only referred to, and is said to be,
"in the Prophets", that is, in one of the prophets; (See Gill
on John
6:45) or in the book of the Prophets, the lesser
prophets, which were together in one book, among which Habakkuk
stands; the Ethiopic version reads in the singular number, "lest
should come upon you the word of the prophet, saying", as
follows.