11. So--literally, "as."
I sware--BENGEL remarks the oath of God
preceded the forty years.
not--literally, "If they shall enter . . . (God do so
to me and more also),"
2Sa 3:35.
The Greek is the same,
Mr 8:12.
my rest--Canaan, primarily, their rest after wandering in the
wilderness: still, even when in it, they never fully enjoyed
rest; whence it followed that the threat extended farther than the
exclusion of the unbelieving from the literal land of rest, and that
the rest promised to the believing in its full blessedness was, and is,
yet future:
Ps 25:13; 37:9, 11, 22, 29,
and Christ's own beatitude
(Mt 5:5)
all accord with this,
Heb 3:9.
JFB.
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