Ebrei 3:11

11 talché giurai nell’ira mia: Non entreranno 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 mettendomi alla prova, e videro le mie opere per quarant’anni!

10 Perciò mi disgustai di quella generazione, e dissi: Sempre erra in cuor loro; ed essi non han conosciuto le mie vie,

11 talché giurai nell’ira mia: Non entreranno nel mio riposo!

12 Guardate, fratelli, che talora non si trovi in alcuno di voi un malvagio cuore incredulo, che vi porti a ritrarvi dall’Iddio vivente;

13 ma esortatevi gli uni gli altri tutti i giorni, finché si può dire: "Oggi", onde nessuno di voi sia indurato per inganno del peccato;