10 For one who has entered God’s rest has rested in turn from his own works, as God did from his. 1 The promise of entering the “rest” of God remains open. The meaning of that “rest” was not exhausted by the earthly Canaan which was entered by the Israelites of the generation which had grown up to manhood in the wilderness; the spiritual counterpart of the earthly Canaan is the goal of the people of God today. Our author therefore urges his readers again to press on and attain that goal. It will