53. Now let us look at these points one by
one. God had promised rest to the Jews; the Spirit calls that
rest His. God the Father relates that He was tempted by the
unbelieving, and the Spirit says that He was tempted by the same, for
the temptation is one wherewith the one Godhead of the Trinity was
tempted by the unbelieving. God condemns the people of the Jews,
so that they cannot attain to the land flowing with milk and honey,
that is, to the rest of the resurrection; and the Spirit condemns them
by the same decree: “If they shall enter into My
rest.” It is, then, the decree of one Will, the excellency
of one Power.