Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
Ver. 1. Let us fear] With a fear not of diffidence, but of diligence. See Trapp on " Php 2:12 " See Trapp on " 1Co 10:12 "
Lest a promise] Some render it thus, Lest we should seem to fall short of the promise that is left us, &c. But where is that promise left us, may some say? It is closely couched in the former commination,Hebrews 3:18. God sware that unbelievers should not enter, and therefore intimates a promise that believers shall enter. A bee can suck sweet honey out of bitter thyme, so cannot a fly do.
To come short of it] To come lag and late, υστερηκεναι, when the gate is shut, the drawbridge taken up, as those foolish virgins, or as lazy race runners, or as those that come a day after the fair, an hour after the feast, and so are frustrated.