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This commentary reveals the true purpose of the book of Hebrews: to exhort and encourage Jewish Christians to remain faithful to Jesus and not to turn back to Judaism. These words of comfort—intended to help early believers to hold fast to the Christian hope without wavering in the face of persecution, ridicule, and insults—contain lessons that can guide our own faith today.

3:15 / This verse presents the first of four occasions where in the ongoing exposition of the original quotation a portion of it is formally cited again (cf. 4:3, 5, 7). Here the opening two lines (Ps. 95:7–8) are repeated (cf. v. 7–8a). 3:16–17 / Those who heard and rebelled (both words drawn from the preceding quotation) were the very Israelites who had experienced the exodus. The words angry for forty years (cf. vv. 9f.) are also drawn from the original quotation (see Additional Notes). These
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