Commentary Critical and Explanatory
Hebrews 4:5
And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
In this place. In this Psalm, again, it is implied that the rest was even still future.
And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.
In this place. In this Psalm, again, it is implied that the rest was even still future.
Verse Hebrews 4:5. _AND IN THIS PLACE AGAIN_] In the ninety-fifth Psalm, already quoted, Psalms 95:3. This was a second rest which the Lord promised to the believing, obedient seed of Abraham; and as...
AND IN THIS PLACE AGAIN - Psalms 95:11. IF THEY SHALL ENTER - That is, they shall not enter; see the notes at Hebrews 3:11. The object of quoting this here seems to be two-fold: * To show that even...
CHAPTER 4 _ 1. What the rest of God is (Hebrews 4:1)_ 2. The power of the Word of God (Hebrews 4:12) Hebrews 4:1 “Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left of entering into His rest, any on...
HEBREWS 4:1 continues the exposition of Psalms 95. The writer has already dealt with the warning contained therein; now he shows that this very warning implies a promise. In declaring that His rest is...
It is true that the promise which offers entry into the rest of God still remains for us; but beware lest any of you be adjudged to have missed it. It is indeed true that we have had the good news pre...
THE REST WE DARE NOT MISS (Hebrews 4:1-10)...
_If they shall_ i.e. "they shall not....
CH. 4. CONTINUED EXHORTATION TO EMBRACE THE YET OPEN OFFER OF GOD’S REST (1–13). EXHORTATION FOUNDED ON THE HIGH PRIESTHOOD OF CHRIST (14–16)...
CONTINUED EXHORTATION TO EMBRACE THE YET OPEN OFFER OF GOD’S REST...
_GREAT BLESSINGS FOR THE BELIEVERS -- HEBREWS 4:5-8:_ Here the Hebrew writer continues to quote from and apply Psalms 95:1-11. In Hebrews 4:5 he refers to...
ΈΝ ΤΟΎΤΩ (G1722; G3778) в этом, здесь, ΕΙΣΕΛΕΎΣΟΝΤΑΙ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΕΊΣΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ (G1525) входить....
_This heavenly rest in type. Hebrews 4:4-8_. a. _The seventh day. Hebrews 4:4-5_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 4:4-5...
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO JOSHUA. (Hebrews 4:3-10) There has been so much confusion in the minds of commentators, so many conflicting interpretations of Hebrews 4 in the past, that we deem it the more neces...
7 The Hebrew of Psa_95:7-11 reads ''as at Meribah" and "the day of Massah", and the passage refers to the twentieth of Numbers. The quotation substitutes their meanings. Meribah is "contention," or "b...
JESUS CHRIST, GIVER OR THE PROMISED REST, AND HIGH PRIEST TO BEING MEN TO GOD 1-13. Israel through unbelief failed to enter into the promised rest. The rest, therefore, remains open and a promise of...
THE SUPREMACY OF CHRIST. The OT. itself testifies to His supremacy as God's Son over its own chief personages: (a) first the angels, through whom the Jews believed that creation had been effected and...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 4 WARNING TO OBEY 3:7-4:2 4V1 The same promise of entering the place of God's rest is still there for us. We should be afraid that some...
8. THE RETURN OF ELIJAH Malachi 4:4; Hebrews 4:3 With his last word the prophet significantly calls upon the people to remember the Law. This is their one hope before the coming of the great and terr...
CHAPTER III. FUNDAMENTAL ONENESS OF THE DISPENSATIONS. Hebrews 3:1 - Hebrews 4:13 (R.V.). "Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of a heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High-priest of our conf...
to Hebrews 4:13. Chapter s 3 and 4 as far as Hebrews 3:13, form one paragraph. The purpose of the writer in this passage, as in the whole Epistle, is to encourage his readers in their allegiance to Ch...
THE REST THAT JOSHUA COULD NOT GIVE Hebrews 4:1 The good news of Canaan's rest was preached to Israel but availed nothing, because the hearers were destitute of faith. They said, _Can God_ ? instead...
The picture of the whole generation who perished in the wilderness is brought to mind, and the question is, What did they lack, and why did they perish? They did not lack the message of "good tidings....
GOD'S REST IS LIMITED TO THE FAITHFUL The promise of entering God's rest is affirmed for all who believe, yet God's wrath would not allow those who rebelled in the wilderness to enter in (Psalms 95:11...
(4) Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. (2) For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the w...
The epistle to the Hebrews differs in some important respects from all those which have been before us; so much so that many have questioned whether it be the writing of the apostle Paul, of Apollos,...
The apostle goes on to apply this part of Israel's history to those whom he was addressing, laying stress on two points:1st, That Israel had failed of entering into rest, through unbelief; 2nd, That t...
AND IN THIS PLACE AGAIN,.... In Psalms 95:11 he speaks again of another rest distinct from that on the seventh day; which, and not the latter, is what believers under the Gospel dispensation enter int...
Καὶ ἐν τούτῳ πάλιν· Εἰ εἰσελεύσονται εἰς τὴν κατάπαυσίν μου. Καὶ ἐν τούτῳ, “and in this,” or “here,” ἐν τούτῳ/ τῷ ψαλμῷ, “in this psalm:” or τόπῳ, “in this place;” that is, in the place of Scripture...
And in this _place_ again, If they shall enter into my rest. Ver. 5. _If they shall enter_] q.d. Then never trust me more. Yet Ambrose here taketh the words for a forcible affirmation, q.d. _Si intro...
HEB. 4:4-5. FOR HE SPAKE IN A CERTAIN PLACE OF THE SEVENTH (DAY) ON THIS WISE, AND GOD DID REST THE SEVENTH DAY FROM ALL HIS WORKS. AND IN THIS (PLACE) AGAIN, IF THEY SHALL ENTER INTO MY REST. _ Blan...
_For he spake in a certain place_ Namely, Genesis 2:2; Exodus 31:17; _on this wise, God did rest_, &c. These words the apostle quotes, because they show that _the seventh-day_ rest is fitly called _Go...
AND IN THIS PLACE AGAIN; showing that God has still another rest into which he invites us to enter....
The rest remaining to the people of God:...
AND IN THIS PLACE AGAIN, IF THEY SHALL ENTER INTO MY REST....
"Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into His rest, any of you should seem to come short of it." This admonition is a continuation of Ch. 3. The promise has been left us,...
1-10 The privileges we have under the gospel, are greater than any had under the law of Moses, though the same gospel for substance was preached under both Testaments. There have been in all ages man...
OLBGrk;OLBHeb; AND IN THIS PLACE AGAIN: kai here is not so much copularive, connecting an instance of David to the same purpose of that of Moses about the seventh day's rest from the creation; but dis...
Hebrews 4:5 and G2532 again G3825 in G1722 this G5129 place G1487 enter G1525 (G5695) G1519 My...
Hebrews 4:5. IN THIS PLACE AGAIN, _i.e_ either TO QUOTE AGAIN what was said before, or the Sabbath rest which God provides, is, _on the other hand,_ shown not to be the rest spoken of in the Psalm, in...
Hebrews 4:1-11. TO understand the force of the reasoning of these verses, and the naturalness of the different interpretations of the Psalm which the Apostle is explaining, note that ‘ MY REST ' is pr...
AND IN THIS PLACE AGAIN (κα εν τουτω παλιν). The passage already quoted in verse Hebrews 4:3; Hebrews 3:11....
Hebrews 4:1 Fear and Rest. I. The worldly man neither fears nor loves God. He sometimes imagines he loves God, because he is not afraid, because he is not awed by the holy majesty of God, and does no...
Hebrews 4:1. _Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it._ If you avoid the very seeming of it, you will avoid the thin...
Hebrews 4:1. _Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest any of you should seem to come short of it._ Not only dread coming short, but dread the very appearance of...
CONTENTS: The better rest for the believer. The perfect work of redemption. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, David. CONCLUSION: The privileges by Christ under the Gospel are far greater than those enjoyed un...
Hebrews 4:1. _Let us therefore fear, lest a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it._ This caution is repeated from the preseding chapter, but the r...
THIS SAME MATTER. Again he quotes Psalms 95:11 Septuagint. "This shows that a _rest_ different from the one in Canaan, was promised to Abraham's descendants. This _rest_ would be forfeited by unbelief...
_We which have believed do enter into rest_ THE DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERS OF TRUE BELIEVERS 1. A sweet experience declared, “We do enter into rest.” It is an experience of a spiritual and heavenly...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 4:3 WE WHO HAVE BELIEVED. Faith in God’s good news is necessary to ENTER God’s REST. The “rest” of God in...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 4:1 Continuing to use Psalms 95:1, the author focuses on the word “rest.” The section makes most sense if the rest is understood as having begun but still awaiting completion.
SOUL-REST _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THIS chapter should not have been separated from the previous one, as it is a continuation of the hortatory passage. There is, however, a break in the treat...
EXPOSITION A REST STILL OFFERED TO CHRISTIANS. HEBREWS 4:1 LET US FEAR, THEREFORE, LEST, A PROMISE BEING STILL LEFT OF ENTERING INTO HIS REST, ANY ONE OF YOU SHOULD SEEM TO HAVE COME SHORT. This ve...
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it (Hebrews 4:1). As you look at your own heart tonight, is it at rest? Have you...
Hebrews 3:11; Hebrews 4:3...
In this place [ε ν τ ο υ τ ω]. The passage already cited, ver. 3. It is cited again to show that the rest was not entered into....
LET US Hebrews 4:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Every book in the Bible is correlated with every other book. The Bible is a perfect whole. No book can be taken away without its unity and continuity being bro...
In this psalm, of a rest yet to come....