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Heb_3:13. Ἑαυτούς ] tantamount to ἀλλήλους , comp. 1Co_4:7; Eph_4:32; Col_3:13; 1Th_5:13; 1Pe_4:8, al.; Kühner, II. p. 325.
ἄχρις αὗ ] in the inclusive sense: as far as that, i.e. so long as. Cf. 2Ma_14:10 : ἄχρι γὰρ Ἰούδας περίεστιν , ἀδύνατον εἰρήνης τυχεῖν τὰ πράγματα . Josephus, Antiq. x. 2. 2 : ηὔχετο μέχρις τῆς αὐτοῦ ζωῆς εἰρήνην ὑπάρξαι ; Xenophon, Cyrop. v. 4. 16: Καὶ ὁ μὲν Ἀσσύριος διώξας ἄχρις οὗ ἀσφαλὲς ᾤετο εἶναι , ἀπετράπετο .
ἄχρις οὗ τὸ σήμερον καλεῖται ] so long as the to-day, of which mention is made in the passage of the psalm, is named, or: so long as it is still called “to-day,” and it is thus not yet too late to be obedient to the admonition of the psalm. So Luther, Estius, Schlichting, Owen, Carpzov, Stuart, Bleek, Alford, Maier, Kurtz, al. Others, as Heinrichs, Dindorf, Böhme, Kuinoel, Klee, Tholuck, Moll, Hofmann: so long as that to-day of the psalm is called out, i.e. is called out, or proclaimed, to you.
The “to-day” is not the duration of the lifetime of the individuals (Basil, Ep. 42, Opp. iii. p. 130: τὸ σήμερον σημαίνει ὅλον τὸν χρόνον τῆς ζωῆς ἡμῶν ; Theodoret, Theophylact, Primasius, Erasmus, Estius, Cornelius a Lapide, J. Cappellus, Dorscheus, Valckenaer), but (comp. μέχρι τέλους , Heb_3:6; Heb_3:14) the continued existence of the earthly world, which, with the Parousia of Christ—thought of as near at hand (Heb_10:25; Heb_10:37)—attains its end.
ἀπάτῃ τῆς ἁμαρτίας ] by the deception (the treacherous enticement or alluring) of sin. The ἁμαρτία is here personified, comp. Rom_7:11. What is meant is the allurement exerted by the seductive splendour of the ancient cultus to a relapse into the same, and therewith to an apostasy from Christianity.