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While it is called to-day (ἄρχις οὗ τὸ σήμερον καλεῖται)
Lit. so long as the to-day is being named. The article points to the former expression - the “to-day” of Heb 3:7. It is the day of grace, while salvation through Christ is still attainable.
Through the deceitfulness of sin (ἀπάτῃ τῆς ἁμαρίας)
Ἀπάτη is rather a trick, stratagem, deceit, than the quality of deceitfulness. The warning is against being hardened by a trick which their sin may play them. Note the article, the or his sin - the sin of departing from the living God. The particular deceit in this case would be the illusion of faithfulness to the past.