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What is a 'Hard Heart'?
Commentators explain that a 'hard heart' is not just stubbornness, but an active refusal to listen to God's voice. It's a state where truth, preaching, and even life's trials no longer make a spiritual impression. Scholars like Albert Barnes and John Gill note this hardness is often self-inflicted through making excuses, deliberately sinning to quiet one's conscience, and directly resisting the Holy Spirit. It is the root of disobedience.
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Albert Barnes
On Hebrews 3:8
18th Century
Theologian
Harden not your hearts. Do not render the heart unresponsive to the Divine voice and admonition. A hard heart is one where the conscience …
AT Robertson
On Hebrews 3:8
Harden not (μη σκληρυνητε). Prohibition with μη and first aorist (ingressive) active subjunctive of σκληρυνω, late verb from σκληρ…
Charles Ellicott
On Hebrews 3:8
19th Century
Bishop
In the day of temptation.—Better, like the day of the temptation. As in the LXX., so here, two words which in the Hebrew …
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Charles Spurgeon
On Hebrews 3:7–10
19th Century
Preacher
Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost says, Today if you will hear his voice, do not harden your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Hebrews 3:8
To “harden” (GK 5020) the heart is to disobey the voice of God and act in accordance with one’s own desires. This is what Israel did in the wildern…
John Calvin
On Hebrews 3:8
16th Century
Theologian
Then follows, Harden not your hearts. These words intimate that our rebellion against God flows from no other fountain than willful wicked…
John Gill
On Hebrews 3:8
17th Century
Pastor
Harden not you hearts
There is a natural hardness of the heart; the heart of man is like a stone, destitute of spiri…
Matthew Henry
On Hebrews 3:7–13
17th Century
Minister
Days of temptation are often days of provocation. But to provoke God, when He is showing us that we entirely depend and live upon Him, is a provoca…