Hebrews 3:7-8 Why (as the Holy Ghost said, To day if you will hear his voice,… has its gradations of — 1. Carnal security, which comforts itself with the outward possession of the means of grace; and from — 2. Natural indifference and insensibility to the Word, proceeds on through — 3. Unbelieving disparagement. 4. Faithless neglect, and — 5. Reckless transgression of the Word — 6. To rejection, contempt, and denial of it; and thence to a — 7. Permanent embittering of the wicked heart; to a — 8. Conscious stubbornness of the wicked will; to the — 9. Bold tempting of the living God Himself, until in — 10. Complete obduracy, judicial retribution begins the fulfilment of its terrible work. (J. P. Lange.) Parallel Verses KJV: Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,WEB: Therefore, even as the Holy Spirit says, "Today if you will hear his voice, |
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