Hebreos 3:11

11 Así que, en mi enojo, hice este juramento:“Jamás entrarán en mi reposo”».^[a]

Hebreos 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.

Hebreos 3:11 In-Context

9 Allí sus antepasados me tentaron y me pusieron a prueba,a pesar de haber visto mis obras cuarenta años.

10 Por eso me enojé con aquella generación,y dije: “Siempre se descarría su corazón,y no han reconocido mis caminos”.

11 Así que, en mi enojo, hice este juramento:“Jamás entrarán en mi reposo”».

12 Cuídense, hermanos, de que ninguno de ustedes tenga un corazón pecaminoso e incrédulo que los haga apartarse del Dios vivo.

13 Más bien, mientras dure ese «hoy», anímense unos a otros cada día, para que ninguno de ustedes se endurezca por el engaño del pecado.

Footnotes

• [a] Sal 95:7-11