希伯来书 4:7

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

所以　神就再定一個日子，就是過了很久以後，藉著大衛所說的“今天”，就像前面引用過的：“如果你們今天聽從他的聲音，就不要硬著心。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
所 以 过 了 多 年 ， 就 在 大 卫 的 书 上 ， 又 限 定 一 日 ， 如 以 上 所 引 的 说 ： 你 们 今 日 若 听 他 的 话 ， 就 不 可 硬 着 心 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Now, since God has left us the promise that we may enter his rest, let us be very careful so none of you will fail to enter. ² The Good News was preached to us just as it was to them. But the teaching they heard did not help them, because they heard it but did not accept it with faith. ³ We who have believed are able to enter and have God's rest. As God has said, "I was angry and made a promise, ‘They will never enter my rest.'" Psalm 95:11 But God's work was finished from the time he made the world. ⁴ In the Scriptures he talked about the seventh day of the week: "And on the seventh day God rested from all his works." ⁵ And again in the Scripture God said, "They will never enter my rest." ⁶ It is still true that some people will enter God's rest, but those who first heard the way to be saved did not enter, because they did not obey. ⁷ So God planned another day, called "today." He spoke about that day through David a long time later in the same Scripture used before: "Today listen to what he says. Do not be stubborn." Psalm 95:7–8 ⁸ We know that Joshua did not lead the people into that rest, because God spoke later about another day. ⁹ This shows that the rest for God's people is still coming. ¹⁰ Anyone who enters God's rest will rest from his work as God did.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

saying: Hebrews 3:7, Hebrews 3:8, 2 Samuel 23:1, 2 Samuel 23:2, Matthew 22:43, Mark 12:36, Luke 20:42, Acts 2:29, Acts 2:31, Acts 28:25

To day: Hebrews 3:7, Hebrews 3:15, Psalms 95:7

after: 1 Kings 6:1, Acts 13:20-23

Reciprocal: Acts 2:30 - being Romans 2:5 - But after 2 Corinthians 6:2 - a time

Cross-References

Genesis 3:16
Then God said to the woman, "I will cause you to have much trouble when you are pregnant, and when you give birth to children, you will have great pain. You will greatly desire your husband, but he will rule over you."

Genesis 4:6
The Lord asked Cain, "Why are you angry? Why do you look so unhappy?

Genesis 4:8
Cain said to his brother Abel, "Let's go out into the field." While they were out in the field, Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him.

Genesis 4:9
Later, the Lord said to Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" Cain answered, "I don't know. Is it my job to take care of my brother?"

Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.

Genesis 4:11
And now you will be cursed in your work with the ground, the same ground where your brother's blood fell and where your hands killed him.

Genesis 4:12
You will work the ground, but it will not grow good crops for you anymore, and you will wander around on the earth."

Genesis 4:13
Then Cain said to the Lord , "This punishment is more than I can stand!

Genesis 19:21
The angel said to Lot, "Very well, I will allow you to do this also. I will not destroy that town.

Numbers 32:23
"But if you don't do these things, you will be sinning against the Lord ; know for sure that you will be punished for your sin.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Again he limiteth a certain day,.... Since the seventh day of the creation was a day of rest which God entered into, and not man; and since the land of Canaan was a typical rest, which the unbelieving Israelites did not enter into, because of unbelief; and yet there must be persons, and there must be a time for them to enter into the true rest which God has left a promise of; therefore he has limited, fixed, and appointed a certain day, the Gospel dispensation, for believers to enter into it:

saying in David; or by David, who was the penman of the 95th psalm, as may be learned from hence; and this is agreeably to, and confirms a rule which the Jews give, that those psalms which are without a title were written by David g; the Spirit of God spake in him and by him, and plainly pointed out another day of rest from the above mentioned:

today, after so long a time; as two thousand five hundred years from the first seventh day to the time of Moses, and five hundred years from the times of Moses and Joshua, to his:

as it is said; the Alexandrian copy reads, "as it is before said", or, "above said", as the Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions; that is, in Psalms 95:7 before cited, Hebrews 3:7

today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts;

Hebrews 3:7- :,

Hebrews 3:7- :.

g Aben Ezra & Kimchi Praefat. in Tillim.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Again, he limiteth - He designates, or definitely mentions. The word rendered “limiteth” - ὁρίζει horizei - means to “bound,” to set a boundary - as of a field or farm; and then to determine or fix definitely, to designate, appoint. Here it means, that he specifies particularly, or mentions expressly.

A certain day - A particular time; he mentions today particularly. That is, in the time of David, he uses the word “today,” as if time was “then” an offer of rest, and as if it were then possible to enter into it. The object of the additional thought was to show that the offer of rest was not confined to the Israelites to whom it was first made; that David regarded it as existing in his day; and that man might even then be invited to come and partake of the rest that was promised. “Nearly five hundred years after the time when the Israelites were going to the promised land, and when the offer of rest was made to them, we hear David speaking of “rest” still; rest which Was offered in his time, and which might then be lost by hardening the heart. It could not be, therefore, that the offer of rest pertained merely to the promised land. It must be something in advance of that. It must be something existing in the time of David. It must be an offer of heaven.” A Jew might feel the force of this argument more than we do; still it is conclusive to prove the point under consideration, that there was a rest spoken of long after the offer of the promised land, and that all the promises could not have pertained to that.

Saying in David - In a Psalm composed by David, or rather perhaps, saying “by” David; that is, God spake by him.

Today - Now - that is, even in the time of David.

After so long a time - That is, so long after the first promise was made; to wit, about 500 years. These are the words of Paul calling attention to the fact that so long a time after the entrance into the promised land there was still a speaking of “today,” as if even then they were called to partake of the rest.

As it is said - To quote it exactly; or to bring the express authority of the Scriptures. It is expressly said even after that long time, “today - or now, if you will hear his voice.” All this is to prove that even in that time there was an offer of rest.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Hebrews 4:7. He limiteth a certain day — The term day signifies not only time in general, but also present time, and a particular space. Day here seems to have the same meaning as rest in some other parts of this verse. The day or time of rest relative to the ancient Jews being over and past, and a long time having elapsed between God's displeasure shown to the disobedient Jews in the wilderness and the days of David, and the true rest not having been enjoyed, God in his mercy has instituted another day-has given another dispensation of mercy and goodness by Christ Jesus; and now it may be said, as formerly, To-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts. God speaks now as he spoke before; his voice is in the Gospel as it was in the law. Believe, love, obey, and ye shall enter into this rest.