Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
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Gill's Exposition
Harden not you hearts,.... There is a natural hardness of the heart; the heart of man is like a stone, destitute of spiritual life, motion, and activity; it is senseless, stupid, impenitent, stubborn,…
Barnes' Notes
Harden not your hearts - Do not render the heart insensible to the divine voice and admonition. A hard heart is that where the conscience is seared and insensible; where truth makes no impression;…
Adam Clarke
Harden not your hearts - Which ye will infallibly do, if ye will not hear his voice.
Provocation - Παραπικρασμος· From παρα, signifying intensity, and πικραινω, to make bitter; the exasperation, or…
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…
Cambridge Bible
harden not your hearts Comp. Act 19:9. Usually Godis said to harden man's heart (Exo 7:3, &c.; Isa 63:17; Rom 9:18) an anthropomorphic way of expressing the inevitable results of neglect and of evil…
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