“Again, he limiteth a certain day, saying in David, To day, after so long a time; as it is said, To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.”
Therefore God again set a certain day, calling it 'Today,' when a long time later he spoke through David, as was said before: 'Today, if you hear his voice, do not harden your hearts.' — the repetition of the psalm in a later period shows that God's call to enter rest was renewed generations after the wilderness. The reapplication of the promise indicates that rest is a perpetual offer, renewed in each generation's "Today."
Church Fathers on Hebrews 4:7
“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
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