Do enter into rest; literally, into the rest; that, namely, which the Holy Ghost, through David, warns us not to lose. There is a rest promised to believers now as really as there was to believers in the days of Moses; and true Christians have a foretaste of it. It is a spiritual, holy rest, like the rest of God on the Sabbath after he had finished the work of creation; and of which the right keeping of the Sabbath is to believers an emblem.

As he said; Psalms 95:11.

If they shall enter; a Hebrew form of expression, the same as in chap Hebrews 3:11, meaning, they shall not enter. See also verse Hebrews 4:5.

Although the works were finished; as the Holy Ghost, by the mouth of David, said this nearly three thousand years after God on the Sabbath rested from his work of creation, it is plain that this was not the rest referred to.

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Old Testament