“Paul, having treated of hope, and having said that "We are His house, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end"; next shows that we ought to look forward with firmness, and he proves this from the Scriptures. His discourse was concerning Hope, and that it behooves us to hope for t…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on Hebrews 6
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9When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.
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7Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice,
8Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness:
— Hebrews 3:9 —
10Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.
11So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)