Hebrews 4:3

d. For us, too, remains a rest, a danger of fall by unbelief, and a stern adjudging WORD, Hebrews 4:3-13 .

3. For To unfold the nature of this our rest, mentioned in Hebrews 4:1, as parallel to the Canaan rest of Hebrews 3:11; Hebrews 3:18. We Believers of our dispensation universally.

Do enter General present tense; it is the law of our present dispensation that we do by faith enter heaven.

Rest The digression on this term is a good instance of what has been called Paul’s “going off at a word.” The word rest, in last chapter, struck his mind impressively, and becomes a key-word for this. It is a beautiful word, soothing to the weary spirit. Indeed, eastern Buddhism feels life so heavy and rest so desirable as to seek for Nirvana, utter annihilation, as a most desirable repose. But that is the religion of despair, as Christianity is the religion of hope. The Christian rest is repose from all that is wearying in life, yet enjoyment of perfect bliss.

As he said Quoting again Psalms 95:11 to illustrate the Canaan rest.

Although God applies to this rest a my in the psalm, although it was not his creational rest, for his creation was finished long before he used the words in Psalms 95:0, even from the foundation of the world.

By bold conception in the present passage the analogous rest of God at creation, of Israel in Canaan, and of the Christian in paradise, are correlated and identified as deeply one. All are three ineffable and divine reposes after a divinely imposed task, and at bottom they are all the same blessed refreshment. Of this bottom reality Israel’s rest in Canaan was but a rough type. But as the deaths in the wilderness under divine wrath implied a deeper death underlying, so the repose of Israel in Canaan implied a profounder underlying rest.