“Seeing therefore it remaineth that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief:”
It still remains that some will enter that rest, and those who formerly had the good news proclaimed to them did not go in because of their disobedience — the logical structure is clear: rest remains, the wilderness generation did not enter because of unbelief, therefore others must have the opportunity to enter. The open-endedness gestures to the eschatological future.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 4:6
“Seeing therefore it remains” (he says) “that some must enter therein, and they to whom it was first preached entered not in because of unbelief: again he limits a certain day, saying in David, Today, after so long a time; as it has been said before.” But what is it that he means? “Seeing then” (he means) that “some must” certainly “enter in,” and “they did not enter in.” And that an entrance is proclaimed, and that “some must enter in,” let us hear from what this is clear.…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
Publish a reflection on this verse
No reflections on this verse yet. Be the first to write one!