SEV Biblia, Chapter 3:17
Mas ¿con cules se enemist por cuarenta aos? ¿No fue con los que pecaron, cuyos cuerpos cayeron en el desierto?
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Hebrew 3:17
Verse 17. 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 since the ascension of our Lord till the time in which this epistle was written, which was about forty years." But this does not exactly agree with what appears to be the exact date of this epistle. However, God had now been a long time provoked by that race rejecting the manifested Messiah, as he was by the conduct of their forefathers in the wilderness; and as that provocation was punished by a very signal judgment, so they might expect this to be punished also. The analogy was perfect in the crimes, and it might reasonably be expected to be so in the punishment. And was not the destruction of Jerusalem a proof of the heinous nature of their crimes, and of the justice of God's outpoured wrath? Whose carcasses fell] wn ta kwla epesen? Whose members fell; for ta kwla properly signifies the members of the body, and here may be an allusion to the scattered, bleached bones of this people, that were a long time apparent in the wilderness, continuing there as a proof of their crimes, and of the judgments of God.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 17. But with whom was he grieved forty years ? etc..] As is said in ( Psalm 95:10), (see Gill on Hebrews 3:10), was it not with them that had sinned ; not merely by committing personal iniquities, and particular provocations, which all men are guilty of, but by committing public sins; they sinned as a body of men; they joined together in the commission of sin; every sin is grieving to God, because it is contrary to his nature, is an act of enmity to him, is a transgression of his righteous law, and a contempt of his authority; but especially public sins, or the sins of a multitude, and when they are persisted in, which was the case of the Israelites; they sinned against him during the forty years they were in the wilderness; and so long was he grieved with them: the Alexandrian copy reads, with them that believed not; which points out the particular sin these men were guilty of, and which was so grieving to God, and suits well with the apostle's design: whose carcasses fell in the wilderness ? and so never entered into the land of Canaan. They died in the wilderness; and they did not die common and natural deaths, at least not all of them; their deaths were by way of punishment; in a way of wrath; in a judicial way: the Syriac version renders it, their bones fell in the wilderness; they lay scattered and unburied, and exposed to view, as an example of divine vengeance, (see Numbers 14:29).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 14-19 - The saints' privilege is, they are made partakers of Christ, that is of the Spirit, the nature, graces, righteousness, and life of Christ they are interested in all Christ is, in all he has done, or will do The same spirit with which Christians set out in the ways of God, the should maintain unto the end. Perseverance in faith is the bes evidence of the sincerity of our faith. Hearing the word often is means of salvation, yet, if not hearkened to, it will expose more to the Divine wrath. The happiness of being partakers of Christ and his complete salvation, and the fear of God's wrath and eternal misery should stir us up to persevere in the life of obedient faith. Let u beware of trusting to outward privileges or professions, and pray to be numbered with the true believers who enter heaven, when all others fai because of unbelief. As our obedience follows according to the power of our faith, so our sins and want of care are according to the prevailin of unbelief in us __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
τισιν 5101 δε 1161 προσωχθισεν 4360 5656 τεσσαρακοντα 5062 ετη 2094 ουχι 3780 τοις 3588 αμαρτησασιν 264 5660 ων 3739 τα 3588 κωλα 2966 επεσεν 4098 5627 εν 1722 τη 3588 ερημω 2048
Vincent's NT Word Studies
17. The interrogation still continued. "With whom was he displeased forty years? Was it not with them?" etc.
Carcasses (ta kwla). N.T.o . LXX for peger, a corpse. Kwlon properly a limb. The idea of dismemberment underlies the use of the word. Comp. Num. xiv. 29 (LXX), and 1 Cor. x. 5, of the rebellious Israelites, who katestrwqhsan ejn th ejrhmw were strewn down along in the wilderness.
