The same word occurs, xii. 15. The examples, xii. 17 ; Num. xiv. 40; Luke xiii. 25 : ijtfrspzTv <ro/?j<ra/ rb waa^a, to fail to keep the passover, Num. ix. 13. 'Yffr&ptiv, with Plato, at the beginning of the Gorgias, is to come after the festival is ended.
2. Pap, for) This refers to pofiqQuftsv, let us fear. — evq-yyiXifffAsvoi, to us was the Gospel preached [we have had the Gospel preached to us]) We should think that this expression is spoken especially to us, who are called Evangelical : ver. 6. — xaxsTvoi [as well as they], as well as to them) The promise of the land of Canaan had been proclaimed to those men of old, ver. 6. — ov% u<p'sXri<fev, did not profit) There is less said here than is intended (Meiosis). On the contrary [so far was it from profiting them], the unbe lievers incurred the greatest guilt and punishment. Supply, nor will it be profitable to us without faith. — w ffvyxexpap&vos, not being mixed with) The word is entirely mixed with and in sinuated into the believing soul ; and when it is thus mingled, it makes its way wonderfully, as a health-giving draught, and something more powerful even than that, ver. 12, 13. — ry K'usnt) with faith, the dative. — rotg axovaaav) So far as concerns them that heard it. Comp. Rom. iv. 12, note. To these are opposed o/ viorevffavreg, those who believed, in the following verse.
3. Tap) This word refers to the expression, a promise being left, ver. 1. — xadug, as) Unbelief alone acts as a hinderance. — xairoi, although) The Protasis is, although the works were finished from the beginning of the world. The Apodosis is, yet He said, I have sworn. But because the Apodosis in the text comes first, yet is omitted. The proposition is, a rest remains to us. This proposition, ver. 3-11, is proved thus. Rest is mentioned in the psalm ; and yet there it does not signify, I. the rest of God from creation ; for this was long before the times of Moses. Therefore another rest was to be expected in the times of Moses, of which those during the same period, who had heard, evidently came short. Nor yet, II., does that rest which they obtained by Joshua, support the title to this rest ; for it was not until after wards that the Psalmist sung of it. Therefore, III., he sung of a rest more recent than all these kinds of rest, viz. a rest which would be enjoyed in heaven. — ruv zpyuv anb xarafioXrig xoffftou ytvn- Qtvruv) The genitive absolute, i.e. although the works of the Creator were finished and perfected from the foundation of the world.