“When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.”
For forty years your ancestors tested and tried me, even though they had seen what I did — the forty years of wandering represent a prolonged period of unbelief despite evident signs of God's presence and power. The contrast between seeing God's works and refusing to trust him underscores the willfulness of their unbelief.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 3:9
Paul, having treated of hope, and having said that “We are His house, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end” Hebrews 3:6; next shows that we ought to look forward with firmness, and he proves this from the Scriptures. But be attentive, because he has expressed this in a manner somewhat difficult and not readily to be comprehended. And therefore we must first make our own statements, and after we have briefly explained the whole…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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