For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.
Answer to the possible objection to his reasoning-namely, that those brought into Canaan by Joshua (so "Jesus," ) did enter the rest of God. If the rest of God meant Canaan, God would not, after their entrance into that land, have spoken of another (future) day of entering the rest.
Verse Hebrews 4:8. _FOR IF JESUS HAD GIVEN THEM REST_] It is truly surprising that our translators should have rendered the Ιησους of the text _Jesus_, and not _Joshua_, who is most clearly intended....
FOR IF JESUS - Margin, “That is, Joshua.” The Syriac renders it, “Joshua the son of Nun.” “Jesus” is the Greek mode of writing “Joshua,” and there can be no doubt that Joshua is here intended. The obj...
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)...
JESUS. Joshua. Compare Acts 7:45. HAD GIVEN... REST. caused... to rest. Greek. _katapauo,_ as Hebrews 4:4. the heart. AFTERWARD. after (Greek. _meta)_ these things. SPOKEN. Greek. _laleo_. App-121....
_Jesus_ i.e. Joshua. The needless adoption of the Greek form of the name by the A. V. is here most unfortunately perplexing to uninstructed readers, as also in Acts 7:45. _had given them rest_ He did,...
ἸΗΣΟΥ͂Σ, i.e. Joshua. The needless adoption of the Greek form of the name (“Jesus”) by the A.V. is here most unfortunately perplexing to uninstructed readers, as also in Acts 7:45. ΚΑΤΈΠΑΥΣΕΝ. He did,...
CONTINUED EXHORTATION TO EMBRACE THE YET OPEN OFFER OF GOD’S REST...
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)...
_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...
ΙΗΣΟΎΣ (G2424) Иисус Навин. ΚΑΤΈΠΑΥΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΑΠΑΎΩ (G2664) давать покой. Ind. используется здесь в _conj._ 2 типа, противоречащем факту, ΈΛΆΛΕΙ _impf. ind. act. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ (G3956) го...
b. _Canaan. Hebrews 4:6-8_. _TEXT_ Hebrews 4:6-8 Hebrews 4:6 Seeing therefore it remaineth that some should enter thereinto, and they to whom the good tidings were before preached failed to enter i...
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...
4:8 Jesus (d-3) Greek for Joshua. see Note, Numbers 13:16 ....
JESUS] RV, rightly, 'Joshua.' The Gk. for both names is the same. If the entry into Canaan under Joshua bad been the fulfilment of the divine promise of rest, there would have been no mention centurie...
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...
For, had the promise been fulfilled in Joshua’s conquest, the Psalm (God in the Psalm) would not be speaking of another day, saying “To-day” (Hebrews 4:7). (In one other place in the New Testament the...
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...
For if (b) Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. (b) He speaks of Joshua the son of Nun: and as the land of Canaan was a figure of our true rest, so was J...
(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,...
8._For if Jesus had given them rest, _or, _had obtained rest for them, etc. _He meant not to deny but that David understood by rest the land of Canaan, into which Joshua conducted the people; but he d...
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...
FOR IF JESUS HAD GIVEN THEM REST,.... That is, Joshua; for Hosheah, Joshua, and Jesus, are one and the same name; or Jesus himself, as two of Stephens's copies read; and so Joshua is called Jesus by t...
In this verse the apostle gives a further confirmation unto his argument by a particular application of it unto the especial matter in hand. Herewithal he removeth or preventeth an objection that migh...
For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. Ver. 8. _For if Jesus, &c._] That is, Joshua, who bad his name changed when he was sent as a spy into Canaan,...
HEB. 4:8. FOR IF JESUS HAD GIVEN THEM REST, THEN WOULD HE NOT AFTERWARD HAVE SPOKEN OF ANOTHER DAY. The _Blank Bible _ says "See note on Psalms 95:7; Psalms 95:8," which is as follows: 7, 8. _To day...
_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...
JESUS; Joshua; Jesus being the same in Greek as Joshua in Hebrew, meaning Saviour. AFTERWARD; in the days of David. ANOTHER DAY; or time when the rest spoken of could, by believing, be obtained....
The rest remaining to the people of God:...
FOR IF JESUS HAD GIVEN THEM REST, THEN WOULD HE NOT AFTERWARD HAVE SPOKEN OF ANOTHER DAY....
"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,...
JESUS: that is, Joshua...
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...
This is the improvement of the former instance, HEBREWS 4:7. If Joshua, by bringing Israel into Canaan, had given rest to all believers, then God would not by David have spoken of another day and stat...
Dialogue of Justin "I shall give you another testimony, my friends," said I, "from the Scriptures, that God begat before all creatures a Beginning,[220] Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II is lai...
Hebrews 4:8 For G1063 if G1487 Joshua G2424 given G2664 them G846 rest G2664 (G5656) would G302 not...
Hebrews 4:8. Clearly, therefore, the Psalm speaks of A Divine rest into which men are bidden to enter, different from the rest of Canaan, and long subsequent to it. FOR IF JOSHUA (here and in Acts 7:...
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...
JOSHUA (Ιησους). The Greek form is Jesus. Condition of the second class (determined as unfulfilled) with ε and aorist indicative in the condition and αν with the imperfect in the conclusion.HE WOUL...
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...
IF. [Note that Joshua and Jesus are different forms of the same Hebrew name.] "If God's promise had been completely made to come true by Joshua leading the people into Canaan, there would be no refere...
_If Jesus [Joshua] had given them rest_ DISPARITY BETWEEN JOSHUA AND JESUS 1. The first is in this difference, that Joshua conquered Canaan not only for the people of Israel, but also for himself,...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 4:8 FOR IF JOSHUA HAD GIVEN THEM REST. One could conceivably argue that the “rest” that the exodus generation sought was their entrance into the Promised Land. However, that en...
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...
Acts 7:45; Deuteronomy 12:9; Deuteronomy 25:19; Hebrews 11:13;...
But it might be said that under Joshua the people did enter into the promised rest. He therefore shows that Israel's rest in Canaan did not fulfill the divine ideal of the rest. Jesus [ι η σ ο υ ς]....
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...
The rest — All the rest which God had promised....