Charles Spurgeon Commentary Hebrews 10:37-38

"For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry. But my righteous one shall live by faith: And if he shrink back, my soul hath no pleasure in him." — Hebrews 10:37-38 (ASV)

For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

Those who draw back—the mere professors, those who say they have been illuminated and have tasted, in a measure, the sweetness of religion, yet who never received Christ in their inmost heart—these are the people in whom God has no pleasure.

For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.

If there is a drawing back from faith, God can have no pleasure in us; but will we draw back? That is the question, and here is the answer: