3:11 “As I swore in my anger, ‘They will never enter my rest!’” 1
8:7 For if that first covenant had been faultless, no one would have looked for a second one. 5
1 tn Grk “if they shall enter my rest,” a Hebrew idiom expressing an oath that something will certainly not happen.
2 tn Grk “and in this again.”
3 tn Grk “for he/it is witnessed that.”
4 sn A quotation from Ps 110:4 (see Heb 5:6 and 6:20).
4 tn Grk “no occasion for a second one would have been sought.”
5 tn Grk “the promise,” referring to the thing God promised, not to the pledge itself.