Diligence must be given to this pursuit lest someone might fall in the same example of disobedience. The reference, of course, is to Israel’s experience in the wilderness. The analogy was hardly obscure. Even though an entire nation had been delivered from Egypt through the intervention of God, and had actually begun their trek through the wilderness, the vast majority of them failed to enter the rest in Canaan which God had offered. The reason was disobedience (apeitheias) to the good news of God’s