Verse 13
13. Exhort one another Literal Greek, exhort yourselves. Be an entire, collective, self-exhorting Church. Let a man exhort himself, and each one exhort the other, and all exhort all. In this time of trial and dismay, mutual encouragement was the common duty.
Daily For each day has its danger and needs its warning and its cheer.
Called to-day As long as we live to use the word to-day. Note, John 9:4. While our probationary day lasts, and earnestly before the hastening night comes.
Any of you For the Church’s exhortation of itself should not be solely collective. Each individual soul is infinitely important.
Hardened Become spiritually insensible and hard.
Deceitfulness of sin Sin, the hardener and deadener of the soul, is a deceiver. It masks its own ugliness with false beauty. It cheats us with false appearances of goodness. It entangles with sophistries. The pure heart needs constant warning and watching against its deceptions. To the wavering Hebrew the deceitfulness of sin suggested that to adhere to a crucified Messiah was disgraceful; that the old temple worship was honourable; that it was more profitable and advantageous to agree with the popular religion and renounce Jesus.
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