Heb 4:6 | Family | STEP | 6, 7. Seeing therefore--harden not your hearts ; some connect verse immediately with verse , making the intervening verses a parenthesis. But the passage is plainer if taken without any parenthesis, thus: "Seeing therefore"--as has been shown by the preceding argument--"it remaineth"--long after God has entered upon his rest of the Sabbath--"that some must enter therein;" in other words, that it is a rest yet reserved for some, namely, for all those who accept it as it is offered; "and [seeing] they to whom it was first preached"--namely, the Israelites in the wilderness--"entered not in because of unbelief; again, he limiteth a certain day"--that is, he therefore again sets a certain day--"saying by the mouth of David, To-day; thus showing that to-day an offer is made to men of God's rest--"after so long a time"--so long a time after the rest of Canaan had been entered upon--"as it is said"--rather, as it has been said before, in the quotation already made from --"To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts" Of course, when David spoke of a time when men by believing might obtain rest, it was not the rest of Canaan, for that they had, verse ; nor was it the rest of the Sabbath, for that they had, verses ; but it was the rest of which these were emblems, the glorious, eternal rest of heaven.

Hebrews 4:6

6, 7.

Seeing therefore--harden not your hearts; some connect verse Heb 4:6 immediately with verse Heb 4:11, making the intervening verses a parenthesis. But the passage is plainer if taken without any parenthesis, thus: "Seeing therefore"--as has been shown by the preceding argument--"it remaineth"--long after God has entered upon his rest of the Sabbath--"that some must enter therein;" in other words, that it is a rest yet reserved for some, namely, for all those who accept it as it is offered; "and [seeing] they to whom it was first preached"--namely, the Israelites in the wilderness--"entered not in because of unbelief; again, he limiteth a certain day"--that is, he therefore again sets a certain day--"saying by the mouth of David, To-day; thus showing that to-day an offer is made to men of God's rest--"after so long a time"--so long a time after the rest of Canaan had been entered upon--"as it is said"--rather, as it has been said before, in the quotation already made from Ps 95:7--"To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts" Of course, when David spoke of a time when men by believing might obtain rest, it was not the rest of Canaan, for that they had, verse Heb 4:8; nor was it the rest of the Sabbath, for that they had, verses Heb 4:3,4; but it was the rest of which these were emblems, the glorious, eternal rest of heaven.