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8. Ἰησοῦς, i.e. Joshua. The needless adoption of the Greek form of the name (“Jesus”) by the A.V. is here most unfortunately perplexing to uninstructed readers, as also in Act 7:45.
κατέπαυσεν. He did, indeed, give them a rest and, in some sense (Deu 12:9), the rest partially and primarily intended (Jos 23:1); but only a dim shadow of the true and final rest offered by Christ (Mat 11:28; 2Th 1:7; Rev 14:13).
οὐκ ἂν … ἐλάλει. “He would not have been speaking.” The “He” is here Jehovah. The phrases applied to Scripture by the writer always imply his sense of its living power and ideal continuity. The words are as though they had just been uttered (“He hath said,” Heb 4:4) or were still being uttered (as here, and throughout). There is a similar mode of argument in Heb 7:11, Heb 8:4; Heb 8:7, Heb 11:15.