Robertson Word Pictures - Hebrews 4:4

Robertson Word Pictures - Hebrews 4:4 - 4:4

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Robertson Word Pictures - Hebrews 4:4 - 4:4

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4:1 - 4:1
4:2 - 4:2
4:3 - 4:3
4:4 - 4:4
4:5 - 4:5
4:6 - 4:6
4:7 - 4:7
4:8 - 4:8
4:9 - 4:9
4:10 - 4:10
4:11 - 4:11
4:12 - 4:12
4:13 - 4:13
4:14 - 4:14
4:15 - 4:15
4:16 - 4:16

Somewhere on this wise (pou houtōs). See Heb 2:6 for pou tis for a like indefinite allusion to an Old Testament quotation. Here it is Gen 2:2 (cf. Exo 20:11; Exo 31:17). Moffatt notes that Philo quotes Gen 2:2 with the same “literary mannerism.”

Rested (katepausen). First aorist active indicative of katapauō, intransitive here, but transitive in Heb 4:8. It is not, of course, absolute rest from all creative activity as Jesus shows in Joh 5:17. But the seventh day of God’s rest was still going on (clearly not a twenty-four hour day).