those who heard did not combine it with faith.’ And then again in 4:6, ‘those who formerly had the gospel preached to them did not go in, because of their disobedience’. These statements could not be plainer: it was the gospel which they did not believe. They heard it; but it did them no good because they never did believe it. Now unless we get the right idea of what the gospel was in their case (and what it is in ours) we shall find it difficult to understand this statement that
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