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Hebrews 3:13
one another — Greek, “yourselves”; let each exhort himself and his neighbor.
daily — Greek, “on each day,” or “day by day.”
while it is called To-day — while the “to-day” lasts (the day of grace, Luk_4:21, before the coming of the day of glory and judgment at Christ’s coming, Heb_10:25, Heb_10:37). To-morrow is the day when idle men work, and fools repent. To-morrow is Satan’s to-day; he cares not what good resolutions you form, if only you fix them for to-morrow.
lest ... of you — The “you” is emphatic, as distinguished from “your fathers” (Heb_3:9). “That from among you no one (so the Greek order is in some of the oldest manuscripts) be hardened” (Heb_3:8).
deceitfulness — causing you to “err in your heart.”
sin — unbelief.
But exhort one another daily,.... In order to prevent unbelief and apostasy. The phrase is sometimes rendered, "comfort one another", or, "yourselves together", as in 1Th_5:11 which the saints may do, by discoursing together about divine things; by praying together; by instructing one another in the doctrines of the Gospel; by putting one another in mind of the covenant of grace, and its promises; and by observing the near approach of everlasting happiness with Christ. And though the