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A commentary on the whole Epistle to the Hebrews. By M. John Calvin. Translated…A commentarie on the vvhole Epistle to the Hebrevves. By M. Iohn Caluin. Translated…
A commentary on the whole Epistle to the Hebrews. By M. John Calvin. Translated out of FrenchA commentarie on the vvhole Epistle to the Hebrevves. By M. Iohn Caluin. Translated out of French
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Arthur Johnson, 1605London: printed by Felix Kingston for Arthur Iohnson, 1605
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13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called to day, least any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called to day, least any of you be hardened through the deceitfulnes of sinne.
HE still exhorts them to obey Christ in his word. And to the end his exhortation might have the more weight, he confirms it by the testimony of David. For when he was to touch them to the quick, it was needful he should press them in the person of another, least he might offend them. If he had plainly reproached the infidelity of their fathers, they would not so willingly have heard him: but in that he sets David as it were to tell them of it, the matter is so much the less odious. Now his drift in few words is this, that as God from the beginning would that his voice should be obeyed, and could not bear stubbornness, and obstinacy, but did sharply punish it; so also at this day if we ⟨p. 60⟩prove not good scholars under him, he will punish our obstinacy no less severely than he did theirs. Moreover, the words depend one upon another till you come to the 12. verse. To the end therefore the scope of the text may the better be understood, the words which begin at the seventh verse to the twelfth, the first of them being excepted, must be enclosed with a parenthesis. But let us now come to the handling of every point in order.
HE still exhorts them to obey Christ in his word. And to the end his exhortation might haue the more weight, he confirmes it by the testimonie of Dauid. For when hee was to touch them to the quicke, it was needfull hee should presse them in the person of another, least hee might offend them. If he had plainly reproched the infidelitie of their fathers, they would not so willingly haue heard him: but in that he sets Dauid as it were to tell them of it, the matter is so much the lesse odious. Now his drift in few words is this, that as God from the beginning would that his voice should bee obeyed, and could not beare stubbornnes, and obstinacie, but did sharply punish it; so also at this day if we