For he has said this somewhere about the seventh day, “God rested on the seventh day from all his works”;
For the clearer understanding of these words, we must know, that there is a three-fold rest spoken of in scripture, all which are called His, that is, God's rest, being all of his appointing and providing: namely, 1. The rest of the sabbath day, in remembrance of God's resting from the work of creation. 2. The typical rest in the land of Canaan. 3.
Verse 4. For he spake. . 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 he instituted that day to be observed as a memorial of his resting from his works, and as a type of the eternal rest...
For he spake in a certain place,.... Gen 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 of the heavens and the earth: and God did rest the seventh day from all his works: of creation, but not of providence; for in...