希伯來書 3:17

17 神 四 十 年 之 久 ， 又 厭 煩 誰 呢 ？ 豈 不 是 那 些 犯 罪 、 屍 首 倒 在 曠 野 的 人 麼 ？

希伯來書 3:17 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 3:17

But with whom was he grieved forty years?
&c.] As is said in ( Psalms 95:10 ) , (See Gill on Hebrews 3:10),

was it not with them that had sinned;
not merely by committing personal iniquities, and particular provocations, which all men are guilty of, but by committing public sins; they sinned as a body of men; they joined together in the commission of sin; every sin is grieving to God, because it is contrary to his nature, is an act of enmity to him, is a transgression of his righteous law, and a contempt of his authority; but especially public sins, or the sins of a multitude, and when they are persisted in, which was the case of the Israelites; they sinned against him during the forty years they were in the wilderness; and so long was he grieved with them: the Alexandrian copy reads, "with them that believed not"; which points out the particular sin these men were guilty of, and which was so grieving to God, and suits well with the apostle's design:

whose carcasses fell in the wilderness?
and so never entered into the land of Canaan. They died in the wilderness; and they did not die common and natural deaths, at least not all of them; their deaths were by way of punishment; in a way of wrath; in a judicial way: the Syriac version renders it, "their bones fell in the wilderness"; they lay scattered and unburied, and exposed to view, as an example of divine vengeance, see ( Numbers 14:29 ) .

希伯來書 3:17 In-Context

15 經 上 說 ： 你 們 今 日 若 聽 他 的 話 ， 就 不 可 硬 著 心 ， 像 惹 他 發 怒 的 日 子 一 樣 。

16 那 時 ， 聽 見 他 話 惹 他 發 怒 的 是 誰 呢 ？ 豈 不 是 跟 著 摩 西 從 埃 及 出 來 的 眾 人 麼 ？

17 神 四 十 年 之 久 ， 又 厭 煩 誰 呢 ？ 豈 不 是 那 些 犯 罪 、 屍 首 倒 在 曠 野 的 人 麼 ？

18 又 向 誰 起 誓 ， 不 容 他 們 進 入 他 的 安 息 呢 ； 豈 不 是 向 那 些 不 信 從 的 人 麼 ？

19 這 樣 看 來 ， 他 們 不 能 進 入 安 息 是 因 為 不 信 的 緣 故 了 。