Verse 2 The gospel; the offer of rest. The word gospel means any message or offer of kindness and favor.--The word preached; the offer made.--Mixed with faith; accompanied by faith. Hebrews 4:3,4. This passage is somewhat obscure. The meaning may perhaps be, that the rest which God promised that his people should share with him, could not have been the rest after the creation, spoken of in the passage quoted in Hebrews 4:4, for his threatening that they should not enter into his rest was made in the time of Moses, although his rest from the work of creation had been long since past, having taken place when the works were finished at the foundation of the world.