Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of trials in the wilderness:
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
To-day. St. Paul beautifully illustrates this passage, Hebrews iv. (Haydock)
He follows not the present Hebrew punctuation, which would join half this verse with the preceding.
His. God speaks of the Messias according to the apostle, who intimates that to-day comprises all the life of man, Hebrew xxxvii. 13. (Berthier)
Harden not. Man is the author of his own obduracy, (Theodoret) which God only permits. (St. Augustine) (Calmet)
We have free will, and may resist God's grace, as we may also consent to it, and thus co-operate to our first justification. (Council of Trent, Session vi. 5.) (Worthington)
the captives (Calmet) and first Christians were exhorted not to imitate the depravity of the ancient Jews. (Haydock)
Though a man may have frequently resisted the Holy Spirit, he may still repent. (Worthington)
