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3 For this One has been counted worthy of more glory than Moses, inasmuch as aHe who built the house has more honor than the house.  
4 For every house is built by someone, but aHe who built all things is God.  
5 aAnd Moses indeed was faithful in all His house as ba servant, cfor a testimony of those things which would be spoken afterward,  
6 but Christ as aa Son over His own house, bwhose house we are cif we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope1 firm to the end.  

Be Faithful

7 Therefore, as athe Holy Spirit says:
b“Today, if you will hear His voice, 
8 Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion,
In the day of trial in the wilderness,
9 Where your fathers tested Me, tried Me,
And saw My works forty years.
10 Therefore I was angry with that generation,
And said, ‘They always go astray in their heart,
And they have not known My ways.’
11 So I swore in My wrath,
‘They shall not enter My rest.’ ”
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God;
13 but1 exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.  
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Hebrews 3:5

And Moses (kai Mwushv men). "Now Moses indeed on his part" (men contrasted with de).

In (en). Moses was in "God's house" "as a servant" (wv qerapwn). Old word, in LXX, only here in N.T. and quoted from Numbers 12:7 f. Kin to the verb qerapeuw, to serve, to heal, and qerapeia, service (Luke 9:11) and a group of servants (Luke 12:42).

For a testimony of those things which were afterward to be spoken (eiv marturion twn lalhqhsomenwn). Objective genitive of the articular future passive participle of lalew. It is not certain what it means whether the "testimony" (marturion) is to Moses or to God and whether it points on to Christ. In Hebrews 9:9 see parabolh applied to the old dispensation as a symbol pointing to Christ and Christianity.

But Christ (Xristov de). In contrast with Moses (men in verse Hebrews 3:5).

As a son (wv uiov). Instead of a qerapwn (servant).

Over his house (epi ton oikon autou). The difference between epi and en added to that between uiov and qerapwn. It is very neat and quite conclusive, especially when we recall the high place occupied by Moses in Jewish thought. In Acts 7:11 the Jews accused Stephen of speaking "blasphemous words against Moses and God" (putting Moses on a par with God).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Hebrews 3:5:

John 8:35
Hebrews 3:3
Hebrews 3:5
Hebrews 10:21

 

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