“And in this place again, If they shall enter into my rest.”
And again in the passage above he says, 'They shall never enter my rest.' — Psalm 95:11 is reiterated, emphasizing that rest remains available but not for the disobedient. The promise and the warning coexist; the availability of rest and the conditional nature of entry are both true.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 4:5
Hebrews 4:3 For “we who have believed,” he says, “do enter into rest.” From what this is evident, he adds: “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.” This indeed, is not evidence that we shall enter in, but that they did not enter in. What then? Thus far he aims to show that as that rest does not hinder the speaking of another rest, so neither does this [exclude] that of…
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