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For some, when they had heard, did provoke (τίνες γὰρ ἀκούσαντες παρεπίκραναν)
Rend. who, when they heard, did provoke? The interrogative τίνες calls special attention to those who provoked God. The writer would say, “My warning against apostasy is not superfluous or irrelevant: for, consider: who were they that provoked God? They were those who had fairly begun their journey to Canaan, as you have begun your Christian course. They provoked God, so may you.
Howbeit not all (ἀλλ' οὐ πάντες)
Wrong. The interrogation should be continued. Who were they? But (ἀλλ') why do I ask? Were they not all who came out of Egypt by Moses? They were so numerous that they practically constituted the whole generation of the exodus. So far from its being true that a good ending necessarily follows a good beginning, a whole generation of God's chosen people failed to reach the Land of Promise because they provoked God.