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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Oecumenius
"as I swore in my wrath." To such an extent, he says, they did not know my ways, until they brought me to this point, so that I swore they shall not enter my rest, that is, the land of promise, in which having entered they were to rest from wars. "If they shall enter into my rest." But those, having been unfaithful and having tempted God, did not enter into Palestine. For this is the rest. But what will be for us, he says, since there is no other rest on earth, of which we are to be deprived by being disobedient to God? …
Western Saints
Thomas Aquinas
184. – Then he shows the punishment when he says: As I have sworn in my wrath: they shall never enter my rest. In these words he suggests immutability; for when God or an angel swears, it is a sign of the unchangeableness of that concerning which He swears: 'The Lord has sworn and he will not repent' (Ps. 110:4). Yet at times He swears only conditionally, because if He did not repent, these evils would come upon them. …
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