Ebrei 3:11

11 talchè giurai nell’ira mia: Se giammai entrano nel mio riposo.

Ebrei 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.

Ebrei 3:11 In-Context

9 dove i vostri padri mi tentarono, fecer prova di me, e videro le mie opere, lo spazio di quarant’anni.

10 Perciò, io mi recai a noia quella generazione, e dissi: Sempre errano del cuore; ed anche non hanno conosciute le mie vie;

11 talchè giurai nell’ira mia: Se giammai entrano nel mio riposo.

12 Guardate, fratelli, che talora non vi sia in alcun di voi un cuor malvagio d’incredulità, per ritrarvi dall’Iddio vivente.

13 Anzi esortatevi gli uni gli altri tuttodì, mentre è nominato quest’oggi, acciocchè niun di voi sia indurato per inganno del peccato.