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Heb_3:10. Διὸ προσώχθισα τῇ γενεᾷ ταύτῃ ] Wherefore I conceived an aversion, or was incensed against this generation.
On διό , see at Heb_3:9. The verb προσοχθίζειν is not found at all in the classics, in the N. T. only here and Heb_3:17; with the LXX., on the other hand, very frequently.
In γενεά lies neither the subordinate notion of meanness (Heinrichs, Stengel), nor yet the intimation that the men of a certain period belong in point of character and mind to a definite class (Bleek). Each of these subordinate notions τῇ γενεᾷ acquires only by the ταύτῃ which is added.
ἀεί ] note of time to πλανῶνται , not to εἶπον (Erasmus).
αὐτοὶ δέ ] So the LXX. in the Cod. Alex., whose form of the text the author for the most part reproduces; the Cod. Vatican. has more in accordance with the Hebrew: καὶ αὐτοὶ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν .