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And in this place again: kai here is not so much copularive, connecting an instance of David to the same purpose of that of Moses about the seventh day’s rest from the creation; but discretive, joining an instance of another rest of God different from the seventh day’s rest. Moses spake of this, but David here of a further rest; for in Psa_95:11, David spake not of the seventh day, but of God’s last and eternal rest.
If they shall enter into my rest; ei here is affirmative, as appears by comparing Heb_4:3 and Heb_4:6, that these shall have a real and full possession in the future after David’s time of this rest, and therefore different from Moses’s rest so long past before. The word rest in the Hebrew is not the same in the text of Moses and David; Gen_2:2,3, it is tbv in Psa_95:11, ythwnm this of David noting the full, eternal, comfortable rest of souls in glory, sworn by God to believers in the gospel.