11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.



Ver. 11. Let us labour] Here he resumes and re-inforces his former exhortations; that his words may be as nails and goads fastened by the masters of the assemblies. The judgment is first to be illightened by doctrine, and then the affections to be inflamed by exhortation; like as, in the law, first the lamps were lighted, and then the incense burned.



Fall after the same example] God hangs up some malefactors, as it were in gibbets, for a warning to others. {a} Jethro grew wise by the plagues that befell his neighbour, prince Pharaoh, as Rabbi Solomon observeth. And Belshazzar is destroyed for not profiting by his father’s calamities; Dan_5:22, "Thou hast not humbled thy heart, though thou knewest all this."



{a} Exemplo alterius qui sapit, ille sapit.