Hebrews 3
1. Henceforth, my holy brothers and sisters, who were called to the Calling
from heaven, who saw this great Apostle and head of the king priests of our
glorious faith, Eashoa the Messiah,*
2. Who had the Faith in Whom appointed Him like a Moses in all His house.
3. For His glory is greater than that of Moses, whereas the children of the
house's honor is greater than the house.
4. For every house is built by the human being. He who builds everything is
God, however.
5. And Moses, like the servant, believed in the whole building for the sake
of the testimony of all those who spoke on his behalf.*
6. The Messiah then is like a child in His own house,* and we shall be his
household, if we carry on to the very end, openly declaring Him and proud of
the Hope [in His Kingdom.]*
7. Because the holy Spirit has said it,
8. "Do not harden your hearts to His anger,
As in the murmurings and the day of temptation in the wilderness,
9. "For they tested me, your ancestors,
And remained and saw my works for forty years.
10. "That is why I held them to task in that age,* and said,
'These are a people that have lost their hearts,
And know not my ways.'
11. "As I swore in my anger not to allow them into my haven.*"
12. Thus be on guard, brethren, so as no human being among you may have an
unbelieving, wicked heart that avoids the Living God.
13. Except search your souls all your days, until the day of days,* so as
none* of you becomes hardened in the oblivion of sin.
14. For we have become sewn with the Messiah, if from the beginning until the
end, we are leavened in the Resurrection through Him,
15. Whereas He has said,
"If you listen to the echo of His voice daily,
Your hearts will not become hardened toward His anger."
16. For of those who heard Him and angered Him, were they not all from those
that came out from Egypt with Moses?
17. And did He not hold them to task for forty years, except there were
those who persisted in sin and whose bones lie in the wilderness.
18. And was it not against them whom He swore that they would not enter into
His haven, or was it against those that did not adhere?
19. However, we saw that [the former] could not enter because they did not
believe.*
*3:1 Paul re-introduces a five thousand year old title for the highest level
of priesthood, the king priest. The first one recorded in history was
Hammurabi, over two thousand years BC. His name means "king-priest
rabbi".
*3:5 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "Who spoke by his hand."
*3:6.1 Lit. Ar. idiomatic expression: "Son over his own house," or
same as "daughter over her own house," signifying the familiarity
of children in their own home.
*3:6.2 Lit. Ar. idiomatic construction: "Maintain to the very end, in
revealed faces and proud in the Hope."
*3:10 Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "Century."
*3:11 Lit. Ar. idiomatic figure of speech: "Rest."
*3:13 Lit. Ar. id.: "No human [being.]"
* From verse 12 through verse 19, Paul clarifies the difference between
those who are sorely tested and those who slip toward the irretrievable --
without making the final judgment himself.
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