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Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 3:16

Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Browse this work.

Hebrews3:16

16 For some, when they had heard, did provoke : howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses .

This is a rational enforcement of the former Duty pressed, it being as possible for them to provoke Christ as others, they should look to it, and not harden their hearts; for the greater some, the most of the Congregation of Israel imbittered God's Spirit by their Unbelief and hardness of Heart; though Christ spake to them from Heaven, as never was before done, and daily by Moses they were hearing Counsels by which they might live, yet provoked they him, and would not believe.

This rightly interprets the Psalmist, and sets a better example of their Fathers for them to follow: Let Caleb and Ioshua, Believers, and Obedient to God, be your Patterns to imitate; He aggravates the Disobedience of the one, and the Obedience of the other. They all had equally a clear Exemption and Deliverance from the place of Bondage, and that by Moses, by whom God wrought such Miracles as might command Faith from any; yet these some, by murmuring and striving with the Redeemer, provoked him: how great is their Sin? How suitable and pleasing the Obedience of the others to him?

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