these demarcations of time are lacking. With the seventh day, then, the period of God’s rest began. 4. For somewhere he has spoken about the seventh day in these words: “And on the seventh day God rested from all his work.” 5. And again in the passage above he says, “They shall never enter my rest.” Once before, in 2:6, the author has expressed himself rather vaguely about a Scripture passage. He does this deliberately to focus attention not on the precise location of the reference, but on the words