So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.)
So х hoos (G5613)] - 'As in conformity with the fact that.'
I sware - the oath of God preceded the forty years.
Not, х ei (G1487)] - 'if they shall enter, etc. (God do so to me, and more also)' (2 Samuel 3:35). Greek, Mark 8:12,
My rest - Canaan, primarily, their rest after wandering in the wilderness: still, even in it, they never fully enjoyed rest; therefore the threat 'extended further than the exclusion of the unbelieving from the literal land of rest; the rest promised to the believing in its full blessedness was, and is, yet future. Compare Psalms 25:13; Psalms 37:9; Psalms 37:11; Psalms 37:22; Psalms 37:29, and Christ's beatitude, Matthew 5:5.