“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.”
See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God — the call for vigilance against the root sin is unbelief paired with an evil heart. The "living God" is the dynamic, active source of salvation, and to turn from him is to cut oneself off from the only ground of blessing.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 3:12
“Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God.” For from hardness unbelief arises: and as in bodies, the parts that have become callous and hard do not yield to the hands of the physicians, so also souls that are hardened yield not to the word of God. For it is probable besides that some even disbelieved as though the things which had been done were not true. Therefore he says, “Take heed lest there be in any of…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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