For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
For - Justifying his assertion of the need of "faith," Hebrews 4:2. 'Aleph (') A C read х oun (G3767)] 'therefore.'
We which have believed - we who at Christ's coming shall be found to have believed.
Do enter - i:e., are to enter. So B Delta f and Lucifer. A C read 'let us enter.' Into rest - `into the х teen (G3588)] rest' promised in the 95th Psalm.
As he said - God's saying that unbelief excludes, implies that belief gains an entrance. What, however, Paul mainly here dwells on in the quotation is, that the promised "rest" has not yet been entered into. At Hebrews 4:11 he again, as in Hebrews 3:12-19 already, takes up faith as the indispensable qualification.
Although ... Although God finished His works and entered His rest from creation long before Moses' time, yet under that leader another rest was promised, which most fell short of through unbelief; and although the rest in Canaan was subsequently attained under Joshua, yet long after, in David's days, God, in the 95th Psalm, still speaks of the rest of God as not yet attained. THEREFORE there must' be a rest still future-namely, that which 'remaineth for the people of God' in heaven (Hebrews 4:3-9), when they shall rest from their works, as God did from His (Hebrews 4:10). Paul shows that by "my rest" God means a future rest, not for Himself, but for us.
Finished, х geneethentoon (G1096)] - 'brought into existence.'