Matthew Poole Commentary - Hebrews 4:8 - 4:8

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Matthew Poole Commentary - Hebrews 4:8 - 4:8


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This is the improvement of the former instance, Heb_4:7. If Joshua, by bringing Israel into Canaan, had given rest to all believers, then God would not by David have spoken of another day and state of rest to come. Joshua was a type of Jesus bringing believers into the true rest of the heavenly Canaan, as he did Israel into a literal one, Act_7:45.



For if Jesus had given them rest; if that of Canaan was the full and perfect rest of believers, which was given them by him.



Then would he not afterward have spoken of another day; then God himself would not have spoken by David of a better and heavenly rest promised believers in the gospel; of which spiritual and eternal one, both God’s seventh-day sabbath, and the rest of Canaan, were but fainter shadows and types. The expostulation is vehemently denying it.