“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.
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