ACC ~ Hebrews 3 v7 - 13

HE REMINDS THEM OF THE HISTORY. CHRYSOSTOM: From hardness comes unbelief. As in bodies the parts that have become callous and hard do not yield to the hands of the physicians, so also souls that are hardened yield not to the Word of God. For it is probable that some even disbelieved those things which had already been done; hence he says, “Take heed.” … Because the argument from the future is not so persuasive as from the past, he reminds them of the history in which they had lacked faith. For if your fathers, he says, because they did not hope as they ought to have hoped, suffered these things, much more will you. To them also is this word addressed, for “today,” he says, is “ever,” so long as the world lasts. Therefore, “exhort one another daily, as long as it is called ‘today.’” That is, edify one another, raise yourselves up, lest the same things should befall you. “Lest any one of you be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin.” Do you see that sin produces unbelief? For as unbelief brings forth an evil life, so also a soul, “when it is come into a depth of evils, becomes contemptuous” and, having become contemptuous, it endures not even to believe, in order thereby to free itself from fear. ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 6.3-4.

SEPARATION FROM THE LIVING GOD. PHOTIUS: Many have evil, unbelieving hearts. To have an evil, unbelieving heart means to have no faith. Evil is the love of property, wantonness, alcohol, and the like. … Beware that your heart may not become evil and unbelieving; unbelief, he says, is separation from the living God. FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 3.12.

THEY HAVE RECEIVED PHYSICAL FELLOWSHIP WITH CHRIST. THEODORE OF MOPSUESTIA: This word comes to ones who have already come to faith, as I understand it. So that it is fitting for you to praise the same things so that you might remain in the same opinions once and for all. This then Paul says, because those who believe and who have received the Spirit “share” in the substance of Christ, since they have received some physical fellowship with him. Then finally it remains to guard thoroughly this beginning with an uncontaminated mind. FRAGMENTS ON THE EPISTLE TO THE HEBREWS 3.12-14.

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