enjoyment of rest, one, perfect, eternal. The verbal noun is extremely emphatic : it is not met with in the LXX. There will be no elementary sabbath in heaven ; because earthly labour shall have passed away : but the rest will be perpetual, which, however, itself will again have its own various modes (ways, divisions), according to the different state of the priests and of the rest of the blessed in their resurrection bodies (carnis beatse), and according to the intervals of the heavenly times to which the new moons and Jewish Sabbath corresponded : Isa. Ixvi. 21, 23. — rti XaoD roD 0soD, to the people of GOD) He had said abso lutely, of the people, ch. ii. 17, when he was treating of recon ciliation : but now, when he is treating of eternal rest, he says, to the people of God, that is, to the Israel of God, as Paul speaks, Gal. vi. 16. He therefore specially intends the Israel ites (inasmuch as he is writing to the Hebrews), and them, too, believers.
10. Yap, for) Verse 9 is proved thus : He who has entered into the rest of God, rests from his labours ; but the people of GOD do not yet rest : therefore they have not yet entered in. It remains, that they enter in. — a-ri ruv spyuv ai/roD) from his works, even from those that were good and suitable to the time of doing work. Labour precedes rest ; and that would have doubtless been the case, even in paradise, Gen. ii. 15. — uaxep, as) The work and rest of GOD are that archetype to which we ought to be conformed.
11. '£xf/irjp, that) future, great. — ev r£ avr&) in, or after the same, as those men of former times. — vnodsr/fAan, example) The same word is found at viii. 5, ix. 23. He who falls through unbelief, is an example to others, who then say, Behold, 6 dsTm, that man, has in like manner fallen. — ir'sdr) fall, with the soul, not merely with the body : ch. iii. 17. Moses speaks without reference to the ruin of souls, when he recounts the destruction of the people in the wilderness.
12. z&^ yap, for quick, lively) The efficacy of the word of GOD and the omniscience of GOD Himself is described as saving to those in the case of whom the word of GOD is mixed with faith on their part [ver. 2], but as terrible to those who are obstinate : comp. 2 Cor. ii. 15. — o Xo'yos roD 0soD) the word of GOD that is preached, ver. 2, and which is the Gospel-