Teks -- Hebrews 3:18 (NET)

3:18 And to whom did he swear they would never enter into his rest, except those who were disobedient?

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Robertson: Heb 3:18 - That they should not enter

That they should not enter ( mē eiseleusesthai ).

Negative mē (cf. ei in Heb 3:11) and the future middle infinitive in indirect discourse.

Robertson: Heb 3:18 - To them that were disobedient

To them that were disobedient ( tois apeithēsasin ).

Dative masculine plural of the articular first aorist active participle of apeitheō , active disobedience with which compare apistias in Heb 3:12, Heb 3:19.

Vincent: Heb 3:18 - To them that believed not

To them that believed not ( τοῖς ἀπειθήσασιν )

Rend. to them that disobeyed .

JFB: Heb 3:18 - to them that believed not

Rather as Greek, "to them that disobeyed." Practical unbelief (Deu 1:26).

Clarke: Heb 3:18 - To whom sware he

To whom sware he - God never acts by any kind of caprice; whenever he pours out his judgments, there are the most positive reasons to vindicate his conduct

Those whose carcasses fell in the wilderness were they who had sinned. And those who did not enter into his rest were those who believed not. God is represented here as swearing that they should not enter in, in order to show the determinate nature of his purpose, the reason on which it was founded, and the height of the aggravation which occasioned it.

TSK: Heb 3:18 - to whom // but

to whom : Heb 3:11; Num 14:30; Deu 1:34, Deu 1:35

but : Num 14:11, Num 20:12; Deu 1:26-32, Deu 9:23; Psa 106:24-26

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Poole: Heb 3:18 - Them that believed not

To prevent these Hebrews falling, the Spirit repeats the direful oath of God to apostates in the wilderness; the form of which was opened, Heb 3:11 : compare Num 14:30 . The matter sworn was, that they should be so far from possessing, that they should not so much as enter into the land of promise, Canaan, which was God’ s property, as the whole earth is; he promised it to them, could only dispossess their enemies, did give it in possession to their seed, and made it a type of heaven, and of his rest there; he swore this in his severe vindictive justice, so as his sentence was irreversible; which oath stands good against all total and final apostates from him, who have thereby forfeited any title to God’ s eternal rest.

Them that believed not those who were unbelieving under all God’ s miracles of mercies and judgments, which they saw, and so became obstinately disobedient to God’ s commands, and broke his covenant, Heb 8:9 Jer 31:32 , and apostatized from him, and so perished in their gainsaying.

Gill: Heb 3:18 - And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest // but to them that believed not

And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest,.... As in Psa 95:11,

but to them that believed not? the Lord; notwithstanding the signs and wonders he showed among them, they would not be persuaded by Moses and Aaron, by Joshua and Caleb, to be still and quiet, to cease murmuring, and submit to the will of God, and believe in him; they were disobedient, stubborn, and rebellious, and would go up, when they were bid not to go up; for which reason God swore in his wrath that they should not enter into the good land. Unbelief is a source of sin, and cause of judgment, being greatly provoking to God.