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his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his. <a href="/nkjv/hebrews/4.htm">New King James Version</a> For he who has entered His rest has himself also ceased from his works as God did from His. <a href="/nasb_/hebrews/4.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. <a href="/nasb/hebrews/4.htm">NASB 1995</a> For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. <a href="/nasb77/hebrews/4.htm">NASB 1977 </a> For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. <a href="/lsb/hebrews/4.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> For the one who has entered His rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from His. <a href="/amp/hebrews/4.htm">Amplified Bible</a> For the one who has once entered His rest has also rested from [the weariness and pain of] his [human] labors, just as God rested from [those labors uniquely] His own. <a href="/csb/hebrews/4.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> For the person who has entered his rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from his. <a href="/hcsb/hebrews/4.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> For the person who has entered His rest has rested from his own works, just as God did from His. <a href="/asv/hebrews/4.htm">American Standard Version</a> For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. <a href="/cev/hebrews/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> On that day God's people will rest from their work, just as God rested from his work. <a href="/erv/hebrews/4.htm">English Revised Version</a> For he that is entered into his rest hath himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. <a href="/gwt/hebrews/4.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> Those who entered his place of rest also rested from their work as God did from his. <a href="/gnt/hebrews/4.htm">Good News Translation</a> For those who receive that rest which God promised will rest from their own work, just as God rested from his. <a href="/isv/hebrews/4.htm">International Standard Version</a> because the one who enters God's rest has himself rested from his own actions, just as God did from his. <a href="/msb/hebrews/4.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> For whoever enters God?s rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from His. <a href="/net/hebrews/4.htm">NET Bible</a> For the one who enters God's rest has also rested from his works, just as God did from his own works. <a href="/nheb/hebrews/4.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. <a href="/wbt/hebrews/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> For he that hath entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.) <a href="/wey/hebrews/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For He who has been admitted to His rest, has rested from His works as God did from His. <a href="/web/hebrews/4.htm">World English Bible</a> For he who has entered into his rest has himself also rested from his works, as God did from his. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/hebrews/4.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> for he who entered into His rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own. <a href="/blb/hebrews/4.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a> For the one having entered into His rest, he also rested from his works, as God did from the own. <a href="/ylt/hebrews/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> for he who did enter into his rest, he also rested from his works, as God from His own. <a href="/slt/hebrews/4.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> For he having come into his rest, he also has ceased from his works, as God from his own.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/hebrews/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> For he that is entered into his rest, the same also hath rested from his works, as God did from his. <a href="/cpdv/hebrews/4.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> For whoever has entered into his rest, the same has also rested from his works, just as God did from his. <a href="/nabre/hebrews/4.htm">New American Bible</a> And whoever enters into God’s rest, rests from his own works as God did from his. <a href="/nrsvce/hebrews/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> for those who enter God’s rest also cease from their labors as God did from his.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/hebrews/4.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> For he who has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his. <a href="/aramaic-plain-english/hebrews/4.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a> For whoever enters his rest has rested from his works as God has from his own.<div class="vheading2">NT Translations</div><a href="/anderson/hebrews/4.htm">Anderson New Testament</a> For he that has entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.<CM> <a href="/godbey/hebrews/4.htm">Godbey New Testament</a> For the one having entered into his rest has ceased from his works, as God did from his own. <a href="/haweis/hebrews/4.htm">Haweis New Testament</a> For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath rested from his works, as God did from his own. <a href="/mace/hebrews/4.htm">Mace New Testament</a> then he that enters into divine rest, will indeed rest from his works, as God did from his. <a href="/wey/hebrews/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a> For He who has been admitted to His rest, has rested from His works as God did from His. <a href="/worrell/hebrews/4.htm">Worrell New Testament</a> For He Who entered into His rest, Himself also rested from his works, as God did from His Own. <a href="/worsley/hebrews/4.htm">Worsley New Testament</a> for he that is entered into his rest, hath also himself ceased from his works, as God did from his. <a href="/parallel/hebrews/4-10.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x-IAXXp5zcA?start=578" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/hebrews/4.htm">The Sabbath Rest</a> …9There remains, then, a Sabbath rest for the people of God. 10<a href="/greek/1063.htm" title="1063: gar (Conj) -- For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.">For</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ho (Art-NMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">whoever</a> <a href="/greek/1525.htm" title="1525: eiselthōn (V-APA-NMS) -- To go in, come in, enter. From eis and erchomai; to enter.">enters</a> <a href="/greek/1519.htm" title="1519: eis (Prep) -- A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases."></a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: autou (PPro-GM3S) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.">God’s</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tēn (Art-AFS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/2663.htm" title="2663: katapausin (N-AFS) -- From katapauo; reposing down, i.e. abode.">rest</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: autos (PPro-NM3S) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons."></a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. ">also</a> <a href="/greek/2664.htm" title="2664: katepausen (V-AIA-3S) -- From kata and pauo; to settle down, i.e. to colonize, or to desist.">rests</a> <a href="/greek/575.htm" title="575: apo (Prep) -- From, away from. A primary particle; off, i.e. Away, in various senses.">from</a> <a href="/greek/846.htm" title="846: autou (PPro-GM3S) -- He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.">his</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tōn (Art-GNP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">own</a> <a href="/greek/2041.htm" title="2041: ergōn (N-GNP) -- From a primary ergo; toil; by implication, an act.">work,</a> <a href="/greek/5618.htm" title="5618: hōsper (Adv) -- Just as, as, even as. From hos and per; just as, i.e. Exactly like.">just as</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ho (Art-NMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/2316.htm" title="2316: Theos (N-NMS) -- A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.">God did</a> <a href="/greek/575.htm" title="575: apo (Prep) -- From, away from. A primary particle; off, i.e. Away, in various senses.">from</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: tōn (Art-GNP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">His.</a> <a href="/greek/2398.htm" title="2398: idiōn (Adj-GNP) -- Pertaining to self, i.e. One's own; by implication, private or separate."></a> 11Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following the same pattern of disobedience.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/genesis/2-2.htm">Genesis 2:2</a> And by the seventh day God had finished the work He had been doing; so on that day He rested from all His work. <a href="/matthew/11-28.htm">Matthew 11:28-30</a> Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. / Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. / For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.” <a href="/exodus/20-8.htm">Exodus 20:8-11</a> Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. / Six days you shall labor and do all your work, / but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant or livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates. ... <a href="/psalms/95-11.htm">Psalm 95:11</a> So I swore on oath in My anger, “They shall never enter My rest.” <a href="/revelation/14-13.htm">Revelation 14:13</a> And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.” <a href="/isaiah/58-13.htm">Isaiah 58:13-14</a> If you turn your foot from breaking the Sabbath, from doing as you please on My holy day, if you call the Sabbath a delight, and the LORD’s holy day honorable, if you honor it by not going your own way or seeking your own pleasure or speaking idle words, / then you will delight yourself in the LORD, and I will make you ride on the heights of the land and feed you with the heritage of your father Jacob.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken. <a href="/colossians/2-16.htm">Colossians 2:16-17</a> Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath. / These are a shadow of the things to come, but the body that casts it belongs to Christ. <a href="/deuteronomy/5-12.htm">Deuteronomy 5:12-14</a> Observe the Sabbath day by keeping it holy, as the LORD your God has commanded you. / Six days you shall labor and do all your work, / but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God, on which you must not do any work—neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor your manservant or maidservant, nor your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, nor the foreigner within your gates, so that your manservant and maidservant may rest as you do. <a href="/revelation/21-4.htm">Revelation 21:4</a> ‘He will wipe away every tear from their eyes,’ and there will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the former things have passed away.” <a href="/romans/8-18.htm">Romans 8:18</a> I consider that our present sufferings are not comparable to the glory that will be revealed in us. <a href="/isaiah/11-10.htm">Isaiah 11:10</a> On that day the Root of Jesse will stand as a banner for the peoples. The nations will seek Him, and His place of rest will be glorious. <a href="/2_thessalonians/1-7.htm">2 Thessalonians 1:7</a> and to grant relief to you who are oppressed and to us as well. This will take place when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty angels <a href="/psalms/116-7.htm">Psalm 116:7</a> Return to your rest, O my soul, for the LORD has been good to you. <a href="/1_peter/1-3.htm">1 Peter 1:3-4</a> Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, / and into an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you, <a href="/isaiah/32-17.htm">Isaiah 32:17-18</a> The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever. / Then my people will dwell in a peaceful place, in safe and secure places of rest.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>For he that is entered into his rest, he also has ceased from his own works, as God did from his.he that.<a href="/hebrews/1-3.htm">Hebrews 1:3</a> Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;<a href="/hebrews/10-12.htm">Hebrews 10:12</a> But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever, sat down on the right hand of God;<a href="/revelation/14-13.htm">Revelation 14:13</a> And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.hath.<a href="/john/19-30.htm">John 19:30</a> When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.<a href="/1_peter/4-1.htm">1 Peter 4:1,2</a> Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; … as.<a href="/hebrews/4-3.htm">Hebrews 4:3,4</a> For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/hebrews/4-6.htm">Admitted</a> <a href="/colossians/1-9.htm">Ceased</a> <a href="/acts/6-13.htm">Ceases</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-6.htm">Enter</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-6.htm">Entered</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/14-24.htm">Enters</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-6.htm">God's</a> <a href="/2_corinthians/11-23.htm">Labors</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-9.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-4.htm">Rested</a> <a href="/romans/9-33.htm">Rests</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-4.htm">Work</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-4.htm">Works</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/hebrews/4-11.htm">Admitted</a> <a href="/hebrews/10-2.htm">Ceased</a> <a href="/psalms/12-1.htm">Ceases</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-11.htm">Enter</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-20.htm">Entered</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-19.htm">Enters</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-11.htm">God's</a> <a href="/revelation/14-13.htm">Labors</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-11.htm">Rest</a> <a href="/genesis/2-2.htm">Rested</a> <a href="/1_peter/2-6.htm">Rests</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-10.htm">Work</a> <a href="/hebrews/6-1.htm">Works</a><div class="vheading2">Hebrews 4</div>1. <a href="/hebrews/4-1.htm">The Sabbath-Rest for Christians is attained by faith.</a> 12. <a href="/hebrews/4-12.htm">The power of God's word.</a> 14. <a href="/hebrews/4-14.htm">By our high priest Jesus, the Son of God,</a> 16. <a href="/hebrews/4-16.htm">we may and must go boldly to the throne of grace.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div>  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div>  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div> <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:200px;height:200px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-3753401421161123" data-ad-slot="3592799687"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hebrews/4.htm">Study Bible</a></td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/study/hebrews/" title="Book Summary and Study">Book ◦</a> <a href="/study/chapters/hebrews/4.htm" title="Chapter summary and Study">Chapter </a></tr></table></div>For whoever enters God’s rest This phrase refers to the spiritual rest that believers enter through faith in Jesus Christ. It echoes the promise of rest given to the Israelites in the Old Testament, particularly in the context of the Promised Land (<a href="/deuteronomy/12-9.htm">Deuteronomy 12:9-10</a>). However, the rest mentioned here is not merely physical or geographical but spiritual and eternal. It signifies a cessation from striving for salvation through works, aligning with the New Testament teaching of salvation by grace through faith (<a href="/ephesians/2-8.htm">Ephesians 2:8-9</a>). This rest is a foretaste of the eternal rest believers will experience in heaven (<a href="/revelation/14-13.htm">Revelation 14:13</a>).also rests from his own work This part of the verse emphasizes the cessation of human effort in achieving righteousness. In the cultural context of the Jewish audience, this would contrast with the works-based righteousness of the Mosaic Law. Theologically, it underscores the doctrine of justification by faith, where believers cease from their own works as a means of earning salvation and instead rely on the finished work of Christ on the cross (<a href="/romans/4-5.htm">Romans 4:5</a>). This rest is a spiritual state of peace and assurance in one's relationship with God.just as God did from His This phrase draws a parallel between the believer's rest and God's rest after creation. In <a href="/genesis/2-2.htm">Genesis 2:2</a>, God rested on the seventh day, not because He was weary, but to set a pattern for humanity and to signify the completion of His creative work. This rest is a type of the ultimate rest believers find in Christ. It also connects to the Sabbath rest, which was a shadow of the rest to come in Christ (<a href="/colossians/2-16.htm">Colossians 2:16-17</a>). Theologically, it points to the sufficiency and completeness of God's work, mirrored in the believer's rest in the sufficiency of Christ's atoning sacrifice.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God</a> The Creator who rested on the seventh day after completing the work of creation, setting a pattern for rest. 2. <a href="/topical/b/believers.htm">Believers</a> Those who are invited to enter into God's rest through faith in Jesus Christ. 3. <a href="/topical/c/creation.htm">Creation</a> The event where God created the world in six days and rested on the seventh, establishing the concept of rest. 4. <a href="/topical/s/sabbath.htm">Sabbath</a> The day of rest instituted by God, symbolizing the rest believers can enter through faith. 5. <a href="/topical/j/jesus_christ.htm">Jesus Christ</a> The fulfillment of the promise of rest, offering spiritual rest to believers.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/u/understanding_god's_rest.htm">Understanding God's Rest</a> God's rest is not merely physical cessation from labor but a spiritual state of peace and fulfillment in Him. <a href="/topical/f/faith_as_the_key_to_rest.htm">Faith as the Key to Rest</a> Entering God's rest requires faith in Jesus Christ, who provides the ultimate rest for our souls. <a href="/topical/i/imitating_god's_pattern.htm">Imitating God's Pattern</a> Just as God rested from His work, believers are called to rest from striving and trust in God's completed work. <a href="/topical/t/the_sabbath_as_a_foreshadow.htm">The Sabbath as a Foreshadow</a> The Sabbath rest in the Old Testament points to the deeper, spiritual rest available in Christ. <a href="/topical/l/living_in_rest_today.htm">Living in Rest Today</a> Believers are encouraged to live in the reality of God's rest daily, experiencing His peace and presence.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_hebrews_4.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Hebrews 4</a> <a href="/q/what_is_christ_dwelling_in_us.htm">What did God do on day seven?</a> <a href="/q/what_defines_a_day_of_rest.htm">What defines a day of rest?</a> <a href="/q/what_is_quietism.htm">What is Quietism?</a> <a href="/q/how_do_believers_enter_god's_rest_amid_turmoil.htm">From Hebrews 4:1-3, how can we reconcile the promise of 'entering his rest' when believers throughout history still face turmoil, suffering, and unrest?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/hebrews/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(10) Into his rest.--That is, into God's rest.Hath ceased.--Rather, hath rested from his works as God did from His own (works). This verse is added to explain and justify the reference to a "sabbath" in <a href="/hebrews/4-9.htm" title="There remains therefore a rest to the people of God.">Hebrews 4:9</a>. Man's sabbath-rest begins when he enters into God's rest (<a href="/genesis/2-2.htm" title="And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.">Genesis 2:2</a>); as that was the goal of the creative work, so to the people of God this rest is the goal of their life of "works."As the whole argument is reviewed, the question may naturally be asked, To what extent is this wide meaning present in the Psalm itself? Where must the line be drawn between the direct teaching of the words and the application here made? The apparent expansion of the meaning of the Psalm relates to <a href="/hebrews/4-11.htm" title="Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.">Hebrews 4:11</a> alone. There, in the first instance, an historical fact is mentioned--the exclusion of the rebels from the promised land. But though the mention of the oath of God is derived from <a href="/context/numbers/14-28.htm" title="Say to them, As truly as I live, said the LORD, as you have spoken in my ears, so will I do to you:">Numbers 14:28-30</a>, the language of the historian is significantly changed; for "ye shall not come into the land," we read, "they shall not enter into My rest." True, the land could be spoken of as their "rest and inheritance" (<a href="/deuteronomy/12-9.htm" title="For you are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God gives you.">Deuteronomy 12:9</a>); but the language which the Psalmist chooses is at all events susceptible of a much higher and wider meaning, and (as some of the passages quoted in the Note on <a href="/hebrews/3-11.htm" title="So I swore in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)">Hebrews 3:11</a> serve to prove) may have been used in this extended sense long before the Psalmist's age. That <a href="/hebrews/4-8.htm" title="For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day.">Hebrews 4:8</a>, when placed by the side of <a href="/hebrews/4-11.htm" title="Let us labor therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.">Hebrews 4:11</a>, shows the higher meaning of the words to have been in the Psalmist's thought, and implies that the offer of admission to the rest of God was still made, it seems unreasonable to doubt. As the people learnt through ages of experience and training (see <a href="/hebrews/1-5.htm" title="For to which of the angels said he at any time, You are my Son, this day have I begotten you? And again, I will be to him a Father, and he shall be to me a Son?">Hebrews 1:5</a>) to discern the deeper and more spiritual meaning that lay in the promises of the King and the Son of David, so was it with other promises which at first might seem to have no more than a temporal significance. If these considerations are well founded, it follows that we have no right to look on the argument of this section as an "accommodation" or a mere application of Scripture: the Christian preacher does but fill up the outline which the prophet had drawn. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/hebrews/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 10. - For he that is entered into his rest (God's, as before) hath himself also rested from his works, as from his own God. There are two ways of understanding this verse. Its general intention is, indeed, clear. It accounts for the use of the word σαββατισμὸς which precedes, expressing that the true meaning of "God's rest" is not satisfied by any earthly rest, but only by one like his. The question is whether the verse is to be taken as a general proposition or as referring specifically to Christ. In favor of the latter view is the aorist κατέπαυσεν. The literal translation would be "He that entered... himself also rested." Ebrard, on this ground, strenuously defends the reference to Christ; and also on the ground of parallelism with <a href="/hebrews/2-9.htm">Hebrews 2:9</a> in the first division of the general argument. In the first division (<a href="/hebrews/2.htm">Hebrews 2</a>.) the course of thought was - Dominion over creation has been assigned to man: man has not attained it: Jesus has; and in Jesus man fulfils his destiny. In this second division the corresponding course of drought is - God's rest has been offered to man: man has not attained it: Jesus has; and in Jesus man may enter it. And thus (as has been explained above) the conclusion that Jesus is the High Priest of humanity is led up to by two parallel lines of argument. But the third of the propositions of the second line of argument (corresponding to <a href="/hebrews/2-9.htm">Hebrews 2:9</a> in the first) is not distinctly expressed unless it be in the verse before us; and therefore this verse, on this ground as well as that of the use of the aorist, is taken to refer to Christ. On the other hand, it is argued (Bleek, Do Wette, Delitzsch, etc.) that, if a specific reference to Christ had been intended, he would have been mentioned, so as to make the meaning clear; and secondly, that the aorist κατέπαυσε is legitimate, though the proposition be a general one. Delitzsch explains it thus: "The author might have written καταπαύει or (more classically) καταπέπαυται: but he has taken up into the main proposition the κατέπαυσεν, which properly belongs (according to <a href="/genesis/2-2.htm">Genesis 2:2</a>) to the clause of comparison: whosoever has entered God's rest, of him the 'κατέπαυσεν ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων αὑτοῦ holds good in the same manner as of God." And, further, it is to be observed that the Greek aorist may sometimes be put for the present, "to express an action completely determined, every doubt as to its truth and unalterableness being removed" (Matthiae, 'Gr. Gram.,' § 506). In this instance the idea might be - he that has entered into God's rest rested, when he so entered, from all his works, etc. On the whole, it appears that specific reference to Christ is not apparent from the immediate context, or required by the mere language used. Still, in consideration of the general argument, we may take the writer to have meant his readers to understand that it was Christ who had so entered the rest of God, so as to lead God's people into it. That this is so appears from ver. 14, Ἔχοντες οῦν ἀρχιερέα μέγαν διελη;υθότα τοὺς οὐρανοὺς, which seems to require that preceding link of thought. - Among man's deepest feelings is a longing for rest. Haply in the freshness and ardor of early life not deeply felt, it recurs from time to time, and grows stronger with advancing years. Nothing in life fully satisfies this longing. Labors, distresses, disappointments, anxieties, never allow the desired repose. Few there are whose hearts have not sometimes echoed the psalmist's words, "Oh that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest!" Many since Job have felt something of his longing to be where "the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest." Is there to be no satisfaction ever of this deep human craving? Holy Scripture meets it as it meets all others. It spoke of a rest of God above creation from the beginning of time; it intimated man's part and interest in it by the weekly sabbath which he was to keep with God. But this was, after all, but a symbol and earnest of something unattained. At length a fuller realization of the longed-for rest was held out to the chosen people, and the Promised Land was pictured beforehand in the colors of an earthly Paradise. Forfeited, when first offered, through the people's unworthiness (representing by an historical parable the bar to man's entrance into the eternal rest), it was attained at last. But the true rest still came not. Canaan, like the sabbath, proved but a symbol of something unattained. Yet the old longing for rest went on, and inspired men went on proclaiming it as attainable and still to come. The irrepressible craving, the suggestive symbols, the prophetic anticipations, are all fulfilled in Christ. He, when he had passed with us through this earthly scene of labor, entered, with our nature, into that eternal rest of God, to prepare a place for us, having by his atonement removed the bar to human entrance. Through our faith in him we are assured that our deep-seated craving for satisfaction unattained as yet, which we express by the term "rest," is a true inward prophecy, and that, though we find it not here, we may through him, if we are faithful, confidently expect it there, where "beyond these voices there is peace." There now follows (vers. 11-14) a renewal of the warning of <a href="/hebrews/3-7.htm">Hebrews 3:7-4:1</a>, urged now with increased force in view of the danger of slighting such a revelation as the gospel has been shown to be; after which (ver. 14, etc.) come words of encouragement, based on the view, now a second time arrived at, of Christ being our great High Priest. And thus the exposition of his priesthood, which follows in <a href="/hebrews/5.htm">Hebrews 5</a>, is led up to. <a href="/commentaries/hebrews/4-10.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div>For γὰρ (gar) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_1063.htm">Strong's 1063: </a> For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason. whoever ὁ (ho) Article - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. enters εἰσελθὼν (eiselthōn) Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_1525.htm">Strong's 1525: </a> To go in, come in, enter. From eis and erchomai; to enter. [God’s] αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_846.htm">Strong's 846: </a> He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. rest κατάπαυσιν (katapausin) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2663.htm">Strong's 2663: </a> From katapauo; reposing down, i.e. abode. also καὶ (kai) Conjunction <a href="/greek/strongs_2532.htm">Strong's 2532: </a> And, even, also, namely. rests κατέπαυσεν (katepausen) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2664.htm">Strong's 2664: </a> From kata and pauo; to settle down, i.e. to colonize, or to desist. from ἀπὸ (apo) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_575.htm">Strong's 575: </a> From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses. his αὐτοῦ (autou) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_846.htm">Strong's 846: </a> He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. [own] τῶν (tōn) Article - Genitive Neuter Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. work, ἔργων (ergōn) Noun - Genitive Neuter Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_2041.htm">Strong's 2041: </a> From a primary ergo; toil; by implication, an act. just as ὥσπερ (hōsper) Adverb <a href="/greek/strongs_5618.htm">Strong's 5618: </a> Just as, as, even as. From hos and per; just as, i.e. Exactly like. God [did] Θεός (Theos) Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular <a href="/greek/strongs_2316.htm">Strong's 2316: </a> A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very. from ἀπὸ (apo) Preposition <a href="/greek/strongs_575.htm">Strong's 575: </a> From, away from. A primary particle; 'off, ' i.e. Away, in various senses. [His]. τῶν (tōn) Article - Genitive Neuter Plural <a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/hebrews/4-10.htm">Hebrews 4:10 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/hebrews/4-10.htm">Hebrews 4:10 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/hebrews/4-10.htm">Hebrews 4:10 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/hebrews/4-10.htm">Hebrews 4:10 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/hebrews/4-10.htm">Hebrews 4:10 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/hebrews/4-10.htm">Hebrews 4:10 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/hebrews/4-10.htm">Hebrews 4:10 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/hebrews/4-10.htm">Hebrews 4:10 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/hebrews/4-10.htm">Hebrews 4:10 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/hebrews/4-10.htm">Hebrews 4:10 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/hebrews/4-10.htm">NT Letters: Hebrews 4:10 For he who has entered into his (Heb. He. 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