“Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.”
'That is why I was angry with that generation and said, 'Their hearts are always going astray, and they have not known my ways.' — God's anger against the wilderness generation flows from their persistent refusal to know his ways. The absence of knowledge is not intellectual but volitional; it reflects a refusal to walk in obedience.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 3:10
Paul, having treated of hope, and having said that “We are His house, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end” Hebrews 3:6; next shows that we ought to look forward with firmness, and he proves this from the Scriptures. But be attentive, because he has expressed this in a manner somewhat difficult and not readily to be comprehended. And therefore we must first make our own statements, and after we have briefly explained the whole…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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