SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:31
Horrenda cosa es caer en las manos del Dios viviente.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Hebrew 10:31
Verse 31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.] To fall into the hands of God is to fall under his displeasure; and he who lives for ever can punish for ever. How dreadful to have the displeasure of an eternal, almighty Being to rest on the soul for ever! Apostates, and all the persecutors and enemies of God's cause and people, may expect the heaviest judgments of an incensed Deity: and these, not for a time, but through eternity.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 31. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God .] For this is to be understood not in a good sense; so in general all mankind may be said to fall into, or be in the hands of God, as they are the work of his hands, the care of his providence, and are subject to his sovereignty; and in especial manner, believers, whose times and persons are in God's hand, which bespeaks his great affection for them, their nearness to him, the support they have by him, and protection from him; and they choose to fall into the hands of him as a chastising Father, rather than into the hands of men, and at death commend themselves into his hands: but here it is taken in a bad sense, and signifies to be arrested by justice as a criminal, and be brought to the bar of God, and receive the sentence of condemnation; when such will feel the weight of his hand, and the fierceness of his wrath; and this is a fearful thing: it is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of men, injured and affronted, and that have power, and will show no mercy; it is very tremendous to fall into the hands of God, in the way of his judgments in this world; the apprehensions of a future judgment are terrible before hand; and the apparatus of the judgment, when it comes, will be very striking and surprising; but to stand before the Judge, charged with sin, naked, and without righteousness, speechless, and no one to speak in favour of them; to hear the dreadful sentence pronounced, and feel the wrath of God to the uttermost, how horrible must this be! the aggravations of this are, that it is into the hands of God that such fall, and not into the hands of men, or mere creatures; but of God, who is omniscient, and sees through all pretences; omnipotent, and none can rescue out of his hands by force; omnipresent, and so no escaping from him; just and faithful, and not to bribed, inexorable, immutable, and unalterable: and that he is the living God; in opposition to the lifeless deities of the Gentiles, and to mortal men; and is expressive of his eternity, and so of the duration of the sinner's punishment, that falls into his hands.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 26-31 - The exhortations against apostacy and to perseverance, are urged by many strong reasons. The sin here mentioned is a total and fina falling away, when men, with a full and fixed will and resolution despise and reject Christ, the only Saviour; despise and resist the Spirit, the only Sanctifier; and despise and renounce the gospel, the only way of salvation, and the words of eternal life. Of thi destruction God gives some notorious sinners, while on earth, a fearfu foreboding in their consciences, with despair of being able to endur or to escape it. But what punishment can be sorer than to die withou mercy? We answer, to die by mercy, by the mercy and grace which the have despised. How dreadful is the case, when not only the justice of God, but his abused grace and mercy call for vengeance! All this doe not in the least mean that any souls who sorrow for sin will be shu out from mercy, or that any will be refused the benefit of Christ' sacrifice, who are willing to accept these blessings. Him that comet unto Christ, he will in no wise cast out.
Greek Textus Receptus
φοβερον 5398 το 3588 εμπεσειν 1706 5629 εις 1519 χειρας 5495 θεου 2316 ζωντος 2198 5723
Vincent's NT Word Studies
31. To fall, etc. Comp. LXX, 2 Sam. xxiv. 14; Sir. ii. 18.
Of the living God. The living God, revealed in the living Christ, will not suffer his sacrificial gift and his covenant to be slighted and insulted with impunity. See on ch. iii. 12.
