Hebrews 4:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Seeing therefore it remaineth, &c.— The difficulty here is, how does it appear, from the passages cited, that any were to enter into God's rest? That the incredulous and disobedient children of Israel were not to enter into Canaan, the place of their rest, appears, because God had declared that that generation should not enter into it. But whence does it appear that any were to enter into that rest eminently so called?—The reasoning is this: 1. There is such a rest of God: this is proved from what the scripture says, God rested the seventh day from all his works. 2. That rest which is spoken of, and into which the children of Israel did enter, was not that rest of God; but though it was called his rest, yet it was not designed to be a cessation from all labour, but only from the labour in the wilderness. Since then the rest of God remained unpossessed, notwithstanding Joshua gave the people under his charge possession of Canaan, and we are invited still tocome into the rest of God, there must be such a state to and for the people of God. Instead of must enter, we may read do enter; and instead of they to whom it was first preached, Doddridge and others read, they to whom the good tidings were at first declared; as in Hebrews 4:2.