Hebräer 3:11

11 daß ich auch schwur in meinem Zorn, sie sollten zu meiner Ruhe nicht kommen."

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 da mich eure Väter versuchten; sie prüften mich und sahen meine Werke vierzig Jahre lang.

10 Darum ward ich entrüstet über dies Geschlecht und sprach: Immerdar irren sie mit dem Herzen! Aber sie erkannten meine Wege nicht,

11 daß ich auch schwur in meinem Zorn, sie sollten zu meiner Ruhe nicht kommen."

12 Sehet zu, liebe Brüder, daß nicht jemand unter euch ein arges, ungläubiges Herz habe, das da abtrete von dem lebendigen Gott;

13 sondern ermahnet euch selbst alle Tage, solange es "heute" heißt, daß nicht jemand unter euch verstockt werde durch Betrug der Sünde.