Hebrews 4:6-11

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 4:9

There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God.Barmby's brief comment on this verse is concise and interesting.The conclusion is now drawn: the true nature of the rest intended being beautifully denoted by the word "sabbath rest," which refers to the divine rest from "the foundation of the world," while the offer of it to true belivers always, and not to Israelites only, is intimated by the phrase, "the people of God."[5] read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 4:10

For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his.The effort to make the person who has entered into his rest to be the Saviour appears forced, although some able scholars defend that meaning of it. The view here is that it pertains to the rest which any true follower of the Lamb enters upon his becoming a Christian. Rest is a universal human longing; and, although in youth the desire for rest might not be so urgently felt, its need and urgency,... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Hebrews 4:11

Let us therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, that no man fall after the same example of disobedience.Do people actually enter that rest during the present life? The answer appears to be affirmative, but only in a sense of receiving earnest of it, or in the sense of receiving it as an inheritance to be possessed now but actually entered only in the eternal world. Bruce outlined a similar opinion thus: "It is evidently an experience they do not enjoy in their present mortal state,... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 4:6

Hebrews 4:6. Seeing therefore it remaineth, &c.— The difficulty here is, how does it appear, from the passages cited, that any were to enter into God's rest? That the incredulous and disobedient children of Israel were not to enter into Canaan, the place of their rest, appears, because God had declared that that generation should not enter into it. But whence does it appear that any were to enter into that rest eminently so called?—The reasoning is this: 1. There is such a rest of God: this... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 4:7

Hebrews 4:7. Again, he limiteth a certain day,— "The scripture mentions God's rest again, with a strong exhortation to the people in David's days; and he gives a strong encouragement to them not to harden their hearts: and even so many years after Moses was dead, he uses the expression to-day; which implies present time, and a rest different from that of Canaan, and what the faithful even then were to enjoy." Dr. Heylin renders this and the next verse more clearly thus: He again determines a... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 4:9

Hebrews 4:9. There remaineth therefore a rest— The word hitherto used for rest had been καταπαυσιν, cessation from labour: here a new term is introduced σαββατισμος, such a rest as was proper to the seventh day, on which God rested. The apostle had said, Heb 4:6 that the rest of God was left unpossessed; that generation which Joshua led into Canaan, did not then take possession of God's rest; for God, four hundred and fifty years afterwards, speaks of his rest as still to be entered into;... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Hebrews 4:10

Hebrews 4:10. Hath ceased— Hath rested. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 4:6

6. it remaineth—still to be realized. some must enter—The denial of entrance to unbelievers is a virtual promise of entrance to those that believe. God wishes not His rest to be empty, but furnished with guests (Luke 14:23). they to whom it was first preached entered not—literally, "they who first (in the time of Moses) had the Gospel preached to them," namely, in type, see on Hebrews 4:2. unbelief—Greek, rather "disobedience" (see on Hebrews 4:2- :). read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 4:7

7. Again—Anew the promise recurs. Translate as the Greek order is, "He limited a certain day, 'To-day.'" Here Paul interrupts the quotation by, "In (the Psalm of) David saying after so long a time (after five hundred years' possession of Canaan)," and resumes it by, "as it has been said before (so the Greek oldest manuscript, before, namely, Hebrews 3:7; Hebrews 3:15), To-day if ye hear His voice," &c. [ALFORD]. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Hebrews 4:8

8. Answer to the objection which might be made to his reasoning, namely, that those brought into Canaan by Joshua (so "Jesus" here means, as in :-) did enter the rest of God. If the rest of God meant Canaan, God would not after their entrance into that land, have spoken (or speak [ALFORD]) of another (future) day of entering the rest. read more

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