SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:13
antes exhortaos los unos a los otros cada día entre tanto que se dice: Hoy, para que ninguno de vosotros se endurezca con engao de pecado;
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Hebrew 3:13
Verse 13. But exhort one another daily] This supposes a state of chose Church fellowship, without which they could not have had access to each other. While it is called to-day] Use time while you have: it, for by and by there will be no more present time; all will be future; all will be eternity. Daily signifies time continued. To-day, all present time. Your fathers said: Let us make ourselves a captain, and return back unto Egypt, Num. xiv. 4.
Thus they exhorted each other to depart from the living God. Be ye warned by their example; let not that unbelieving heart be in you that was in them; exhort each other daily to cleave to the living God; lest, if ye, do not, ye, like them, may be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. But exhort one another daily , etc..] In order to prevent unbelief and apostasy. The phrase is sometimes rendered, comfort one another, or, yourselves together, as in ( 1 Thessalonians 5:11) which the saints may do, by discoursing together about divine things; by praying together; by instructing one another in the doctrines of the Gospel; by putting one another in mind of the covenant of grace, and its promises; and by observing the near approach of everlasting happiness with Christ. And though the business of exhortation greatly belongs to ministers of the word, yet it ought not to be neglected by private believers; who ought, when it becomes necessary, to exhort one another to prayer; to an attendance on the word and ordinances; to a regard to their conversations; to a close adherence to their profession; and to a believing view and consideration of Christ, the apostle and high priest of it; and to a due concern for his truth and interest: and this should be done in love, with good and consolatory words, and in things, in which the saints are concerned, and do themselves regard; and it is an affair which requires prudence and faithfulness; and supposes that God's own people may be dull, heavy, and sluggish; and this is to be done daily, every day, as often as there is an occasion, and an opportunity for it; and while it is called today ; while the Gospel dispensation continues; or while the time of life lasts. This shows that the phrase today, in ( Psalm 95:7) did not respect David's time only. The Syriac version renders it, until that day which is called today: until the everlasting day appears, when there will be no need of such exhortations, nor any danger of what follows: lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin ; actual sin, which is a transgression of the law; every sin is of an hardening nature, and by being often committed, an habit is contracted, and a callousness brought upon the heart and conscience; or the corruption of nature, indwelling sin, may be meant; an evil and a corrupt heart, which deceives through promises of pleasure, or profit to a man's self, or of secrecy and impunity; it suggests the power a man has to repent at pleasure, and the mercy of God, by which means the man is drawn in to it, and by frequent repeating it, grows hardened in it.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-13 - Days of temptation are often days of provocation. But to provoke God when he is letting us see that we entirely depend and live upon him, in a provocation indeed. The hardening of the heart is the spring of all other sins. The sins of others, especially of our relations, should be warnings to us. All sin, especially sin committed by God's professing privileged people, not only provokes God, but it grieves him. God is loth to destroy any in, or for their sin; he waits long to be graciou to them. But sin, long persisted in, will make God's wrath discove itself in destroying the impenitent; there is no resting under the wrath of God. "Take heed:" all who would get safe to heaven must loo about them; if once we allow ourselves to distrust God, we may soo desert him. Let those that think they stand, take heed lest they fall Since to-morrow is not ours, we must make the best improvement of thi day. And there are none, even the strongest of the flock, who do no need help of other Christians. Neither are there any so low an despised, but the care of their standing in the faith, and of their safety, belongs to all. Sin has so many ways and colours, that we nee more eyes than ours own. Sin appears fair, but is vile; it appear pleasant, but is destructive; it promises much, but performs nothing The deceitfulness of sin hardens the soul; one sin allowed makes wa for another; and every act of sin confirms the habit. Let every on beware of sin.
Greek Textus Receptus
αλλα 235 παρακαλειτε 3870 5720 εαυτους 1438 καθ 2596 εκαστην 1538 ημεραν 2250 αχρις 891 ου 3739 το 3588 σημερον 4594 καλειται 2564 5743 ινα 2443 μη 3361 σκληρυνθη 4645 5686 τις 5100 εξ 1537 υμων 5216 απατη 539 της 3588 αμαρτιας 266
Vincent's NT Word Studies
13. While it is called today (arciv ou to shmeron kaleitai). Lit. so long as the today is being named. The article points to the former expression - the "today" of ver. 7. It is the day of grace, while salvation through Christ is still attainable.
Through the deceitfulness of sin (apath thv amariav). jApath is rather a trick, stratagem, deceit, than the quality of deceitfulness. The warning is against being hardened by a trick which their sin may play them. Note the article, the or his sin - the sin of departing from the living God. The particular deceit in this case would be the illusion of faithfulness to the past.
