“To-day” is equivalent to, ‘This is the day in which God is inviting you to enter into His rest, as He invited your fathers long ago to enter into the rest of Canaan. The reign of Heaven is approaching; Messiah is at hand.’ “If ye will hear His voice.” These words are obviously elliptical; and, consistently with the Hebrew idiom, the ellipsis may be filled up in either of the two following ways:—‘If ye hear His voice, ye shall enter into His rest;’ or, ‘Oh, if ye would but hear His voice!’ This is
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