God or Figs

Let us labor to enter the rest of that remaineth to the people of God. Because of their unbelief, the chil­dren of Israel of the desert period perished in the wilderness. With this tragic end of these Israelites before their eye, the faithful are to fear lest a promise being left to them of entering in his (Christ's) rest any of them shall seem to come short of it. That a rest remaineth to the people of God is the inevitable con­clusion to which the reasoning of the sacred writer leads. The...