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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Hebrews 4 From the punishment inflicted on the unbelieving Hebrews, who died in the wilderness, and entered not into the land of rest made mention of in the preceding chapter, the apostle proceeds to caution the present Hebrews of his time, and who professed faith in Christ, lest seeing there was a rest, and a promise of entering into it, they should seem to come short of it,...
John Gill
For we which have believed do enter into rest,.... Not eternal rest; all believers shall enjoy this, and they only; but this is not now, or at present enjoyed, unless things future may be said to be present, because of faith in them, and the certainty of them but spiritual rest in Christ under the Gospel dispensation, which is a rest from the burden of the law of Moses, and from all toil and...
Matthew Henry
The apostle, having in the foregoing chapter set forth the sin and punishment of the ancient Jews, proceeds in this, I. To declare that our privileges by Christ under the gospel exceed the privileges of the Jewish church under Moses, as a reason why we should make a right improvement of them, ver. 1-4. II. He assigns the cause why the ancient Hebrews did not profit by their religious privileges,...
Charles H. Spurgeon
For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. I leave out the intermediate words for the time being. “There is a rest.”
Charles H. Spurgeon
For we which have believed do enter into rest. Faith brings us into this rest, even as unbelief shut them out. Heb_4:3. As he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. That is God’s rest, the rest of a finished work, and into that rest many never enter. The work by which they might live for ever, the...