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Hebrews 4:4
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest on the seventh day from all His works.
For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest on the seventh day from all His works.
Verse Hebrews 4:4. _FOR HE SPAKE IN A CERTAIN PLACE_] This _certain place_ or _somewhere_, που, is probably Genesis 2:2; and refers to the completion of the work of creation, and the setting apart th...
FOR HE SPAKE - Genesis 2:2. “And God did rest.” “At the close of the work of creation he rested. The work was done. “That” was the rest of God. He was happy in the contemplation of his own works; and...
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...
THE REST WE DARE NOT MISS (Hebrews 4:1-10)...
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...
SPAKE. hath said. GOD. App-98. REST. Greek. _katapauo._ See Acts 14:18. Quoted from Genesis 2:2. THE SEVENTH, &C. = on (Greek. _en)_ the seventh, &c....
_he spake in a certain place_ Rather, "He _hath said somewhere_." By the indefinite "He" is meant "God," a form of citation not used in the same way by St Paul, but common in Philo and the Rabbis. The...
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...
ΕἼΡΗΚΕΝ … ΠΟΥ. “_He_ HATH SAID SOMEWHERE.” By the indefinite “He” is meant “God,” a form of citation not used in the same way by St Paul, but common in Philo and the Rabbis. We have similar impersonal...
_GREAT PRIVILEGES UNDER CHRIST -- HEBREWS 4:1-4:_ The writer of Hebrews says that the example of the Jews dying in the wilderness because of unbelief should motivate us to faithfulness to God. Unbelie...
ΕΪΡΗΚΕΝ _perf. ind. act. от_ ΛΈΓΩ говорить. ΠΟΥ (G4225) где-либо, негде, ΈΒΔΟΜΟΣ (G1442) седьмой. Подразумевается день: "на седьмой день" то есть в субботу. На богослужении в начале субботы читали P...
FOR HE SPAKE IN A CERTAIN PLACE, &C.— The supplemental nominative case here is Γραφη, the _scripture,_ not _he:_ or it is to be understood impersonally, as in other citations in this epistle,—_It is s...
_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...
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. HE SPAKE - God (Genesis 2:2). GOD DID REST THE SEVENTH DAY - a rest not endin...
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...
4:4 works. (c-21) See Genesis 2:2 ....
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...
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...
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 HE SPAKE IN A CERTAIN PLACE. — Better, _For he hath spoken somewhere,_ another example of indefiniteness of citation. (See Note on Hebrews 2:6.)...
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...
FOR HE SPAKE IN A CERTAIN PLACE,.... Genesis 2:2 that is, Moses, the penman of that book spoke, or God by him: OF THE SEVENTH DAY ON THIS WISE; of the seventh day of the world, or from the creation o...
The next verse gives the reason of the preceding mention of the works of God and the finishing of them. blow this was not for their own sakes, but because of a rest that ensued thereon, the rest of Go...
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. Ver. 4. _And God did rest_] Here the apostle showeth what that rest of believer...
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...
IN A CERTAIN PLACE; GENESIS 2:1-3, showing that there is a rest upon which God entered when he had finished the works of creation....
"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...
FOR HE SPAKE IN A CERTAIN PLACE OF THE SEVENTH DAY ON THIS WISE; the Spirit proves, that the rest mentioned by David, PSALMS 95:11, is not meant the seventh day's rest, because spoken three thousand y...
Hebrews 4:4 For G1063 spoken G2046 (G5758) place G4225 of G4012 seventh G1442 way G3779 And G2532 God...
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...
Hebrews 4:3. FOR WE WHO HAVE BELIEVED ARE ENTERING INTO REST. We only are entering who believe; it is not, therefore, the rest of the Sabbath which the Jews long since possessed (Hebrews 4:4-6), nor i...
SOMEWHERE ON THIS WISE (που ουτως). See Hebrews 2:6 for που τις for a like indefinite allusion to an Old Testament quotation. Here it is Genesis 2:2 (cf. Exodus 20:11;...
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._ Not only dread coming short, but dread the very appearance of...
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...
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...
ABOUT THE SEVENTH DAY. The Sabbath is Saturday (see Matthew 28:1 and note). The quotation is from Genesis 2:2. The sabbath had special meaning for the Jews (Deuteronomy 5:15). Yet the _rest_ of the se...
_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 4:1 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.
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...
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...
Exodus 20:11; Exodus 31:17; Genesis 2:1; Genesis 2:2; Hebrews 2:6...
What was implied in the preceding verse is now stated. Did rest from all his works [κ α τ ε π α υ σ ε ν α π ο π α ν τ ω ν τ ω ν ε ρ γ ω ν α υ τ ο υ]. The verb only in Hebrews and Acts 14:18. Works, p...
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...
For, long after he had rested from his works, he speaks again. Genesis 2:2....
For the clearer understanding of these words, we must know, that there is. three-fold rest spoken of in scripture, all which are called HIS, that is, God's rest, being all of his appointing and provid...