Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 3:11

11 So I sware in my wrath : They shall not enter into my rest .

Such was their Provocations and Temptations of their Redeemer, that he determined their Punishment; the certainty of which he fixt by an irreversible Oath, which is the highest confirmation of Vengeance when it cometh from Wrath; as of his Promise when it issueth from Grace, Numb. 14.27, 28, to 36. Psal. 95.11. compar'd chap. 6.17, 18. And the Spring of it here is Wrath, inraged by their Murmurings and Unbelief.

The Punishment is exprest in an expostulatory form, which is vehemently asserting the negative of the Question; They shall never enter into my Rest. If they enter in, then I am neither True nor God. The Rest literal was the Land of Canaan, Deut. 12.9. in the Truth of that Type, Heaven. It is the Redeemer who speaks this, whose Rest it is by way of Efficiency, Purchase, and Donation; he gives entrance into it, and shuts out of it, Matth. 7.21, 22, 23. This is a shutting them out of all Peace, into Eternal Sorrow, Anguish, Distress and Trouble, and every other Evil contrary unto this Rest.

Marginal references: Gr. If they shall enter.