Anyone have any better guesses on this? Clearly the passage about Michal being childless till her death. It requres the book chapter and verse to be wrong however, which rare, and Durham explicitly says last verse (I've inserted 23). I'm not satisfied I've got the correct place, but he does seem to be speaking about the meaning of the Greek word, which rules out OT passages. But I could not find a NT chapter that used the Greek word in the last verse.
But these plagues, being against obstinate contemners of the light of the Word, now such a spiritual smoke of ignorance and hardness of heart was on them, and possibly of darkness and contention in the church, so that through God’s judgment on them they fretted under these plagues and perished, but repented not, as we will see particularly observed [in] chapter 16. Or none could enter, etc.; that is, God would admit none to make intercession for preventing these plagues (as Moses and the priests in such cases entered the tabernacle to intercede), until the wrath threatened was executed; and so none could enter till then, will be this: they could never enter for that purpose, as the word is taken, 2 Samuel 6, verse last (v. 23).[1]
[1] This is clearly the wrong Scripture reference. Since Durham refers to be the meaning of a word as “to enter for that purpose,” he must be referring to a Greek text and the meaning of εἰσελθεῖν, and so, perhaps Hebrews 4:6 is in view?
But these plagues, being against obstinate contemners of the light of the Word, now such a spiritual smoke of ignorance and hardness of heart was on them, and possibly of darkness and contention in the church, so that through God’s judgment on them they fretted under these plagues and perished, but repented not, as we will see particularly observed [in] chapter 16. Or none could enter, etc.; that is, God would admit none to make intercession for preventing these plagues (as Moses and the priests in such cases entered the tabernacle to intercede), until the wrath threatened was executed; and so none could enter till then, will be this: they could never enter for that purpose, as the word is taken, 2 Samuel 6, verse last (v. 23).[1]
[1] This is clearly the wrong Scripture reference. Since Durham refers to be the meaning of a word as “to enter for that purpose,” he must be referring to a Greek text and the meaning of εἰσελθεῖν, and so, perhaps Hebrews 4:6 is in view?
