“But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?”
And with whom was he angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness? — the prolonged period of God's anger demonstrates the seriousness of unbelief; it resulted in physical death and the exclusion from the promised land. The wilderness became a graveyard for an entire generation.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 3:17
Then he adds Hebrews 3:15, “When it is said, Today if you hear His voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provocation.” This is a transposition, “when it is said, Today if you hear His voice, harden not your hearts.” [It must be read thus:] Hebrews 3:16-19 “For some when they had heard did provoke, howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses: And with whom was He grieved forty years? Was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness? And to…
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