“For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.”
For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day — the figure of Joshua (same name as Jesus in Greek) is invoked to clarify that Joshua's military conquest of Canaan was not the ultimate rest of God. The argument is: the earthly promised land is a type of a greater rest.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 4:8
“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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