Hebrews 3:17

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…

But with whom was he grieved forty years? - With whom was he angry; see the notes at Heb 3:10. Was it not with them that had sinned - That had sinned in various ways - by rebellion, murmuring,…

But with whom was he grieved forty years? - I believe it was Surenhusius who first observed that "the apostle, in using the term forty years, elegantly alludes to the space of time which had elapsed…

Here the apostle proceeds in pressing upon them serious counsels and cautions to the close of the chapter; and he recites a passage out of Psa 95:7, etc., where observe,

I. What he counsels them to do…

grieved Rather "indignant." See Heb 3:10.

whose carcases To us the words read as though there were a deep and awful irony in this term (κῶλα), as though, "dying as it were gradually during their…