3 For this man was counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as he who hath builded the house hath more honour than the house.

4 For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God.

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5 ↳ And Moses verily was faithful in all his house, as a servant, for a testimony of those things which were to be spoken after;

6 But Christ as 'a son over his own house;

to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

fZEC. vi. 12: Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple of the LORD. MAT. xvi. 18: Upon this rock I will build my Church.

8 2 Cor. v. 17: If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. EPH. ii. 10: We are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works. do. iii. 9: God, who created all things by Jesus Christ. HEB. i. 2: Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds.

h Ver. 2.

¡Exod. xiv. 31: And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses. DEUT. iii. 24: O Lord GOD, thou hast begun to show thy servant thy greatness, and thy mighty hand for what God is there in heaven or in earth, that can do according to thy works, and according to thy might? Jos. viii. 31: As Moses the servant of the LORD Commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings. See on ver. 2.

* DEUT. Xviii. 15, 18, 19: The LORD thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him. And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him.

'Ps. ii. 7, 12: I will declare the decree: the LORD hath

whose house are we, "if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.

7 Wherefore (° as the Holy Ghost saith, P To day if ye will hear his voice,

8 Harden not your hearts, as in the

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provoca

tion, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

10 Wherefore I was grieved 3 with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.

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12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any

2 Where. Co. Ma. Cr. Bi. Rh. Ham. fore. Ham. 5 Gr. If they shall enter. A. V.

3 displeased. Pu. 4 There

said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. HEB. i. 2: The words under

ver. 4.

m See on ROM. viii. 9.

n Ver. 14. ROM. v. 2; By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. COL. i. 23: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the Gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister. HEB. X. 35: Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. See on MAT. xxiv. 13.

• 2 SAM. xxiii. 2: The Spirit of the LORD spake by me [David], and his word was in my tongue. MAT. xxii. 43: How then doth David in spirit call him Lord? AcTs, i. 16: This Scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake.

P Ver. 15. Ps. xcv. 7: To day if ye will hear his voice. HEB. iv. 7.

See on ACTS, vii. 51.

See on 1 Cor. x. 9.

• HEB. ii. 1.

of

you an evil heart of 'unbelief, in "departing from the living God.

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13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

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14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;

15 While it is said, 'To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, as in the provo

cation.

16 For some, when they had heard, did pro6 to depart from. Co. Bi. Rh.

t HEB. iv. 11.

"JER. ii. 13: For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

▾ HEB. X. 24: Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works.

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w ROM. vii. 11: Sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me. EPH. iv. 22: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts. HEB. xii. 1: Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us. JAMES, i. 14: Every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

* See on ver. 6.

y Ver. 7.

:

2 NUMB. xiv. 2, 4, 11, 24, 30: And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God that we had died in this wilderness! And they said one to another, Let us make a captain, and let us return into Egypt. And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have showed among them? But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it. Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. DEUT. i.

voke: howbeit not all that came out of Egypt by Moses.

17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, a whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

b 18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest, but to them that believed not ?8

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19 So we see that they could not enter in because of unbelief.

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CHAP. IV.

The rest of Christians is attained by faith: 12 the power of God's word: 14 by our High Priest Jesus the Son of God, subject to infirmities, but not sin, 16 we must and may go boldly to the throne of grace.

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LET us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.

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2 For unto us was the Gospel preached,' as

7 displeased. Co. Ma. Cr. Bi. Gen.

8them that obeyed not. Gen.

unto us have the good tidings been declared. We.

34, 36, 38: And the LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the LORD. But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. See on 1 Cor. x. 5, 6. a See on 1 COR. X. 5.

b NUMB. xiv. 30: Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun. DEUT. i. 34, 35: The LORD heard the voice of your words, and was wroth, and sware, saying, Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers.

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HEB. iv. 6.

CHAP. IV.

HEB. iii. 19. do. xii. 15: Looking diligently, lest any man fail of the grace of God.

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well as unto them: but the word preached 2 1 did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in 3 them that heard it.

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3 For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.

4 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.

5 And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.

6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:5

7 (Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.

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8 For if Jesus had given them rest, then

2 Gr. the word of hearing. A. V.

3 because they were not united by faith to. A. V. the Gospel was first preached. A. V. the good tidings 6 Joshua. A. V.

were declared before. We.

b HEB. iii. 7, 8, 12.

not believe the LORD

C HEB. iii. 14.

5 disobedience. Ham.

DEUT. i. 32: Yet in this thing ye did your God.

Ps. xcv. 11: Unto whom I sware in my wrath that they should not enter into my rest. HEB. iii. 11.

GEN. ii. 2: And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. EXOD. XX. 11: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. do. xxxi. 17: In six days the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.