“While it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.”
As has just been said: 'Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts as you did in the rebellion.' — the repetition of Psalm 95:7-8 underscores its binding claim on the present community. The cyclical structure reinforces the warning's rhetorical force.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 3:15
Then he adds Hebrews 3:14, “For we have been made partakers of Christ.” What is this, “We have been made partakers of Christ”? We partake of Him (he means); we were made One, we and He — since He is the Head and we the body, “fellow-heirs and of the same body; we are one body, of His flesh and of His bones.” Ephesians 3:6; Romans 12:5; Ephesians 5:30 “If we hold fast the beginning of our confidence [or, the principle of our subsistence ] steadfast unto the end.” What is “the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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