Hebräer 3:7

7 Deshalb, wie der Heilige Geist spricht: "Heute, wenn ihr seine Stimme höret,

Hebräer 3:7 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 3:7

Wherefore, as the Holy Ghost saith
In ( Psalms 95:7 )

today if you will hear his voice;
either the precepts of Christ, to hear which is to obey them; and this is an acknowledgment to Christ as King of saints, and is a testimony of love to him, and is wellpleasing in his sight; and in which the saints find pleasure themselves, and profit also: or the Gospel of Christ, which is a voice of love, grace, and mercy; of peace and reconciliation; of pardon and righteousness; of liberty, redemption, and salvation by Christ; and to hear it, is not only to hear it externally, but internally, so as to understand it, and distinguish it from the voice of a stranger, and to approve of it, and believe it, and put in practice what is heard: and "today" may intend some festival day in David's time, when, and on account of which, this psalm was penned; as the feast of tabernacles, which was a type of Christ tabernacling in human nature; or it may regard the time of man's life, while it is day, or the present instant of life: or rather the whole Gospel dispensation. The psalm from whence these and some following words are taken, belongs to the Messiah; for the person the subject of it, is called the rock of our salvation; and every thing in it is applicable to him; as the ascription of deity, and divine worship; the creation and preservation of the universe; yea, he is represented as a shepherd, and the saints as his sheep; which plainly points at the office of Christ; and these very words are often made use of by the Jews, and applied to the Messiah, showing that if the Jews would repent but one day, or keep the sabbath but one day, the son of David, the Messiah, would come; since it is said, "today if you will hear his voice" ^F4; which the Chaldee paraphrase renders (hyrmym) , "his Word", his essential Word, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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FOOTNOTES:

F4 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 98. 1. Shemot Rabba, sect. 25. fol. 109. 3. & Shirhashirim Rabba, fol. 19. 3.

Hebräer 3:7 In-Context

5 Und Moses zwar war treu in seinem ganzen Hause als Diener, zum Zeugnis von dem, was hernach geredet werden sollte;

6 Christus aber als Sohn über sein Haus, dessen Haus wir sind, wenn wir anders die Freimütigkeit und den Ruhm der Hoffnung bis zum Ende standhaft festhalten.

7 Deshalb, wie der Heilige Geist spricht: "Heute, wenn ihr seine Stimme höret,

8 verhärtet eure Herzen nicht, wie in der Erbitterung, an dem Tage der Versuchung in der Wüste,

9 wo eure Väter mich versuchten, indem sie mich prüften, und sie sahen doch meine Werke vierzig Jahre.