Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 8. To-day. Saint Paul beautifully illustrates this passage, Hebrews 4. Bible.—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. Hebrews 7:13. Bert.—Harden not. Man is the author of his own obduracy, (Theod.) which God only permits. Saint 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. Trid. Ses. vi. 5. Worthington.—The captives ( Calmet.) and first Christians were exhorted not to imitate the depravity of the ancient Jews. Bible.—Though a man may have frequently resisted the Holy Ghost, he may still repent. Worthington.