Matthew Poole and continuators on Hebrews 3:18

18 And to whom sware he that they should not enter into his rest , but to them that believed not ?

To prevent these Hebrews falling, the Spirit repeats the direful Oath of God to Apostates in the Wilderness. The form of which was opened, ver. 11. compare Numb. 14.30. The matter sworn was, that they should be so far from possessing, that they should not as much as enter into the Land of Promise, Canaan, which was God's Property, as the whole Earth is; he promised it to them, could only dispossess their Enemies, did give it in Possession to their Seed, and made it a Type of Heaven, and of his Rest there; he swore this in his severe vindictive Justice, so as his Sentence was irreversible: which Oath stands good against all total and final Apostates from him, who have thereby forfeited any Title to God's Eternal Rest.

Those who were unbelieving under all God's Miracles of Mercies and Judgments, which they saw, and so became obstinately disobedient to God's Commands, and broke his Covenant, chap. 8.9. Ier. 31.32. and apostatized from him, and so perished in their gain-saying.

Marginal references: Deut. 1.34, [illegible: 2 letters].