Let us fear therefore, lest haply, a promise being left of entering into his rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.
Here, I. The apostle declares that our privileges by Christ under the gospel are not only as great, but greater than those enjoyed under the Mosaic law. He specifies this, that we have a promise left us of entering into his rest; that is, of entering into a covenant-relation to Christ, and a state of communion with God through Christ, and of growing up therein...
Commenting on Hebrews 4:1-10
As if the apostle had said, "Seeing you have so dreadful an example of God's wrath executed upon your fathers in the wilderness for their unbelief, take heed of their sins, lest ye suffer the like punishment." Here note, 1.
CHAPTER IV. ANALYSIS OF THE CHAPTER. THIS chapter comprises two parts. In the first, , the apostle pursues and completes the exhortation which he had commenced in the previous chapter, drawn from the comparison of the Saviour with Moses, (see the analysis of chapter 3;) and in the second part, (,) he enters on the consideration of the character of Christ as a high priest...