“So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.”
So we see that they were not able to enter, because of their unbelief. — the summarizing statement identifies unbelief as the root cause of Israel's failure; they possessed the word, they heard God's voice, they witnessed his signs, yet they refused to believe. This becomes the hermeneutical key: unbelief forecloses the possibility of entering God's rest.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 3:19
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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