Full Gen 2:2–3, Heb 4:1–11, Rev 14:13. The Genesis seventh day has no evening (Gen 2:3's account omits the "there was evening, and there was morning" refrain). Hebrews picks up the unconcluded Sabbath as the believers' eschatological rest. Rev 14:13: "that they may rest from their labours."
Seventh-Day Rest — the eternal Sabbath
Gen 2:2–3 / Heb 4:9–11; Rev 14:13. Creation's rhythm completed.
Primary passage:Hebrews 4:9 →
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John Calvin
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1. Let us therefore fear, etc. He concludes that there was reason to fear lest the Jews to whom he was writing should be deprived of the blessing offered to them; and then he says, lest anyone, intimating that it was his anxious desire to lead them, one and all,…
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