I sware. — Numbers 14:21-27.
Rest. — This is, of course, the Promised Land, as the context unmistakably shows. The freedom taken with the passage by the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, in order to make the psalm point us to a “future” rest, was such as Jewish doctors ordinarily used, and of which other instances occur in the New Testament — notably St. Paul’s argument in Galatians 3:16.