“But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.”
But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called 'Today,' so that none of you may be hardened by sin's deceitfulness — the community's mutual exhortation is the antidote to the hardening of unbelief; ongoing encouragement counters the deceitfulness of sin, which masks itself as wisdom while actually leading to apostasy. The repetition of "Today" underscores urgency.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 3:13
Wherefore “exhort ye one another daily, while it is called today.” That is, edify one another, raise yourselves up: lest the same things should befall you. “Lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” Do you see that sin produces unbelief? For as unbelief brings forth an evil life, so also a soul, “when it has come into a depth of evils, becomes contemptuous” Proverbs 18:3, and having become contemptuous it endures not even to believe, in order thereby to…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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