Hebräer 4:7

7 so bestimmt er wiederum einen gewissen Tag: "Heute", in David nach so langer Zeit sagend, wie vorhin gesagt worden ist: "Heute, wenn ihr seine Stimme höret, verhärtet eure Herzen nicht".

Hebräer 4:7 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 4:7

Again he limiteth a certain day
Since the seventh day of the creation was a day of rest which God entered into, and not man; and since the land of Canaan was a typical rest, which the unbelieving Israelites did not enter into, because of unbelief; and yet there must be persons, and there must be a time for them to enter into the true rest which God has left a promise of; therefore he has limited, fixed, and appointed a certain day, the Gospel dispensation, for believers to enter into it:

saying in David;
or by David, who was the penman of the 95th psalm, as may be learned from hence; and this is agreeably to, and confirms a rule which the Jews give, that those psalms which are without a title were written by David ^F7; the Spirit of God spake in him and by him, and plainly pointed out another day of rest from the above mentioned:

today, after so long a time;
as two thousand five hundred years from the first seventh day to the time of Moses, and five hundred years from the times of Moses and Joshua, to his:

as it is said;
the Alexandrian copy reads, "as it is before said", or, "above said", as the Vulgate Latin, and Syriac versions; that is, in ( Psalms 95:7 Psalms 95:8 ) before cited, ( Hebrews 3:7 Hebrews 3:8 )

today if you will hear his voice, harden not your hearts;
(See Gill on Hebrews 3:7), (See Gill on Hebrews 3:8).

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FOOTNOTES:

F7 Aben Ezra & Kimchi Praefat. in Tillim.

Hebräer 4:7 In-Context

5 Und an dieser Stelle wiederum: "Wenn sie in meine Ruhe eingehen werden!"

6 Weil nun übrigbleibt, daß etliche in dieselbe eingehen, und die, welchen zuerst die gute Botschaft verkündigt worden ist, des Ungehorsams wegen nicht eingegangen sind,

7 so bestimmt er wiederum einen gewissen Tag: "Heute", in David nach so langer Zeit sagend, wie vorhin gesagt worden ist: "Heute, wenn ihr seine Stimme höret, verhärtet eure Herzen nicht".

8 Denn wenn Josua sie in die Ruhe gebracht hätte, so würde er danach nicht von einem anderen Tage geredet haben.

9 Also bleibt noch eine Sabbathruhe dem Volke Gottes aufbewahrt.