Hebräer 3:11

11 So schwur ich in meinem Zorn: Wenn sie in meine Ruhe eingehen werden!"

Hebräer 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.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Tzeror Hammor, fol. 118. 1.

Hebräer 3:11 In-Context

9 wo eure Väter mich versuchten, indem sie mich prüften, und sie sahen doch meine Werke vierzig Jahre.

10 Deshalb zürnte ich diesem Geschlecht und sprach: Allezeit gehen sie irre mit dem Herzen; aber sie haben meine Wege nicht erkannt.

11 So schwur ich in meinem Zorn: Wenn sie in meine Ruhe eingehen werden!"

12 Sehet zu, Brüder, daß nicht etwa in jemand von euch ein böses Herz des Unglaubens sei in dem Abfallen vom lebendigen Gott,

13 sondern ermuntert euch selbst jeden Tag, solange es "heute" heißt, auf daß niemand von euch verhärtet werde durch Betrug der Sünde.