b. The pattern of rest (4:3–5). 3 For we who have believed do enter that rest, as He has said: “So I swore in My wrath, ‘ They shall not enter My rest,’ ” although the works were finished from the foundation of the world. 4 For He has spoken in a certain place of the seventh day in this way: “And God rested on the seventh day from all His works”; 5 and again in this place: “They shall not enter My rest.” In verses 3–5 the rest into which God entered following His work of creation is presented
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