“And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not?”
And to whom did God swear that they would never enter his rest if not to those who disobeyed? — the final rhetorical question drives home the consequence: the oath-bound exclusion from rest was God's response to persistent disobedience. Unbelief demonstrated through disobedience incurs irreversible judgment.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 3:18
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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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