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Heb 4:3. Γὰρ) This word refers to the expression, a promise being left, Heb 4:1.-καθὼς, as) Unbelief alone acts as a hinderance.-καίτοι, although) The Protasis is, although the works were finished from the beginning of the world. The Apodosis is, yet He said, I have sworn. But because the Apodosis in the text comes first, yet is omitted. The proposition is, a rest remains to us. This proposition, Heb 4:3-11, is proved thus. Rest is mentioned in the psalm; and yet there it does not signify, I. the rest of God from creation; for this was long before the times of Moses. Therefore another rest was to be expected in the times of Moses, of which those during the same period, who had heard, evidently came short. Nor yet, 2., does that rest which they obtained by Joshua, support the title to this rest; for it was not until afterwards that the Psalmist sung of it. Therefore, 3., he sung of a rest more recent than all these kinds of rest, viz. a rest which would be enjoyed in heaven.-τῶν ἔργων ἀπὸ καταβολῆς κόσμου γενηθέντων) The genitive absolute, i.e. although the works of the Creator were finished and perfected from the foundation of the world.