NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
Hebrews 2:1
Origen de Principiis Book III
And the Apostle Paul warns us: "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest perhaps we should let them slip."[299]
Origen de Principiis Book III
And the Apostle Paul warns us: "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest perhaps we should let them slip."[299]
CHAPTER II. _The use we should make of the preceding doctrine, and the danger_ _of neglecting this great salvation_, 1-4. _The future world is not put in subjection to the angels, but all_ _is und...
THEREFORE - Greek “On account of this” - Δια τοῦτο Dia touto - that is, on account of the exalted dignity and rank of the Messiah as stated in the previous chapter. The sense is: “Since Christ, the a...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD AND His GLORY CHAPTER 1-2:4 _ 1. The Son in whom God hath spoken (Hebrews 1:1)_ 2. So much better than the angels (Hebrews 1:5) 3. Admonition and...
For the first time the writer discloses the practical aim which gives force and meaning to his theological argument. Christian men ought to realise the grandeur of their calling, and to hold fast to t...
HEBREWS 1:5 TO HEBREWS 2:18. THE SON IS SUPERIOR TO THE ANGELS. For this theme the way has been prepared in the closing words of Hebrews 1:14. The section may possibly be directed against angel-worshi...
THE SALVATION WE DARE NOT NEGLECT (Hebrews 2:1-4)...
We must, therefore, with very special intensity pay attention to the things that we have heard. For, if the word which was spoken through the medium of the angels proved itself to be certified as vali...
THEREFORE. On account of (Greek. _dia_. App-104.Hebrews 2:2; Hebrews 2:2) this. GIVE, &C. Literally give heed more abundantly. LEST. Greek. _me_. App-105. LEST... SLIP. lest... we should let glide...
_Therefore_ Because we are heirs of a better covenant, administered not by Angels but by A SON, to whom as Mediator an absolute dominion is to be assigned. _we ought_ The word implies moral necessity...
CH. 2. A SOLEMN WARNING AND EXHORTATION (1–4). CHRIST’S TEMPORARY HUMILIATION FOR THE REDEMPTION AND GLORIFICATION OF MANKIND DOES NOT DISPARAGE HIS PRE-EMINENCE OVER ANGELS (5–13), BUT WAS NECESSARY...
A SOLEMN WARNING AND EXHORTATION...
ΔΙᾺ ΤΟΥ͂ΤΟ. Because we are heirs of a better covenant, administered not by Angels but by A SON, to whom as Mediator an absolute dominion is to be assigned. ΔΕΙ͂. The word implies moral necessity and...
_HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE IF WE NEGLECT SO GREAT SALVATION -- HEBREWS 2:1-4:_ We must give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard because Jehovah made them available. We must give the more...
ΔΕΙ (G1163) _praes. ind. act._ безл. необходимо, используется с _асс._ и _inf._ Это слово обозначает логическую необходимость: "мы должны" [Westcott]). ΠΕΡΙΣΣΟΤΈΡΩΣ (G4056) _adv._ более обильно, боле...
LEST AT ANY TIME WE SHOULD LET THEM SLIP.— The word Παραρρυωμεν, rendered, _we should let them slip,_ signifies properly, _we should fall off,_ or _fall away;_ namely, from the true religion, and savi...
_Hence, we see the certainty of punishment to those who neglect God's revelation through His Son._ _TEXT_ Hebrews 2:1-4 Hebrews 2:1 Therefore we ought to give more earnest heed to the things that we...
CHRIST SUPERIOR TO ANGELS. (Hebrews 2:1-4) The title of this article is based upon the fact that the opening verses of Hebrews 2 contains an exhortation based upon what has been said in chapter 1. Th...
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. THEREFORE - Because Christ the Mediator of the new covenant is so far...
11 The destruction of the earth and the heavens is but a crisis in their change (12), for they are not to be made non-existent, but created anew. All things are in a state of flux until the consummati...
LET _THEM_ SLIP] RV 'drift away from them,' as a ship from its moorings. This was what the readers were in danger of doing: see Intro, 'Aim and Object,'...
JESUS EXALTED IN HUMILIATION 1-4. The former dispensation, even though mediated by comparatively inferior beings such as the angels, was yet so sacred that all neglect of it was severely punished. Th...
HOW CAN I GET TO HEAVEN? HEBREWS _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 2 JESUS IS SUPERIOR TO *ANGELS IN HIS MESSAGE 2:1-4 V1 That is why we must take in what we have heard. We must do this so that we do not...
II. (1-4) These verses must be closely joined with the first chapter. Before advancing to the next step in his argument, the writer pauses to enforce the duty which results from what has been already...
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard. — Better, _to the things heard;_ for this expression contains the complement of the thought of Hebrews 1:1. Both “sp...
CHAPTER II THE SON AND THE ANGELS Hebrews 1:4 - Hebrews 2:18 The most dangerous and persistent error against which the theologians of the New Testament had to contend was the doctrine of emanations....
Διὰ τοῦτο : “on this account,” because God has now spoken not through prophets or angels, but through a Son. δεῖ … ἡμᾶς : “we must give more excessive heed”. “Alibi utitur verbo ὀφείλειν _debere_ : hi...
From this proved superiority of the Son to the angels the writer deduces the warning that neglect of the salvation proclaimed by the Lord Himself and attested by God in miracles and gifts of the Holy...
to Hebrews 2:18. _The Son and the Angels_. Hebrews 1:4, although forming part of the sentence 1 3, introduces a subject which continues to be more or less in view throughout chaps 1 and 2. The exaltat...
THE AUTHOR OF OUR SALVATION Hebrews 2:1 _ Drifting away_, Hebrews 2:1. The r.v. gives this solemn rendering. Unless we watch, the strong currents of the world will drift us away from God's great harb...
Here we have the first of a series of warnings uttered in connection with the arguments. If the ministrations of angels had been of so steadfast a character, how much more the speech of the Son. The d...
THE DANGER OF DRIFTING Because Christ is better than the angels, we ought to pay closer attention to His message. To reach a goal upstream, it is absolutely necessary that one put forth diligent effor...
Therefore (1) we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which (a) we have heard, lest at any time we (b) should let [them] slip. (1) Now pausing to show to what end and purpose all these t...
_Lest perhaps we should let them slip away,[1] or run out, like water out of leaking vessels, which is lost, and cannot be take up again. According to the letter it is, lest we run out; the sense must...
(1) Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. (2) For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgre...
CONTENTS The Apostle is prosecuting the same blissful Subject in this Chapter as in the former, in speaking of the Glories of Christ. His Love to the Church, in taking our Nature: and the Blessedness...
The epistle to the Hebrews differs in some important respects from all those which have been before us; so much so that many have questioned whether it be the writing of the apostle Paul, of Apollos,...
_DRIFTING_ ‘We ought to give the more earnest heed to the things that were heard, lest haply we drift away.’ Hebrews 2:1 (R.V.) What a number of drifting people there are to-day! I wonder how many...
1._Therefore we ought, etc. _He now declares what he had before in view, by comparing Christ with angels, even to secure the highest authority to his doctrine. For if the Law given through angels coul...
This is the reason why it is so much the more needful to hearken t the word spoken, in order that they should not let it pass away form life and memory. God had maintained the authority of the word th...
THEREFORE WE OUGHT TO GIVE THE MORE EARNEST HEED,.... This is an inference from the apostle's discourse in the preceding chapter; since he, by whom God has spoke in these last days, is his Son, who is...
The first verse contains the exhortation itself intended by the apostle, those following the especial enforcements of it. Hebrews 2:1. Διὰ τοῦτο δεῖ περισσοτέρων ἡμᾶς προσέχειν τοῖς ἀκουσθεῖσι, μήποτ...
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let _them_ slip. Ver. 1. _We should let them slip_] Or, run out, παραρρυωμεν, as water r...
HEB. 2:1. THEREFORE WE OUGHT TO GIVE THE MORE EARNEST HEED TO THE THINGS WHICH WE HAVE HEARD, LEST AT ANY TIME WE SHOULD LET (THEM) SLIP. Here in his _Blank Bible,_ Edwards noted the ever-present da...
_Therefore_, &c. The foregoing display of the greatness of the Son of God being designed to convince mankind of the great excellence and importance of that gospel of which he is the author, and of the...
THEREFORE; on account of the dignity and glory of him who speaks. WE HAVE HEARD; from Christ and those commissioned to speak in his name. LET THEM SLIP; forget or neglect them, and lose the benefit....
THEREFORE WE OUGHT TO GIVE THE MORE EARNEST HEED TO THE THINGS WHICH WE HAVE HEARD, LEST AT ANY TIME WE SHOULD LET THEM SLIP....
THE NEED OF CHEERFUL OBEDIENCE TO CHRIST. The excellence of the Gospel-message:...
The first four verses of this chapter now press upon us the appropriate conclusions that must be drawn from so transcendent a revelation of the glory of God. "For this reason we should give heed more...
LET THEM SLIP: _ Gr._ run out as leaking vessels...
1-4 Christ being proved to be superior to the angels, this doctrine is applied. Our minds and memories are like a leaky vessel, they do not, without much care, retain what is poured into them. This p...
OLBGrk; HEBREWS CHAPTER 2 HEBREWS 2:1 The obligation we are under to give more earnest heed to the gospel doctrine. HEBREWS 2:5 The dominion of the world to come was not granted to angels, but to the...
Hebrews 2:1 Therefore G1223 G5124 we G2248 must G1163 (G5748) earnest G4056 heed G4337 (G5721) heard...
DOCTRINAL HINTS. In this Epistle, as in the Gospel of John, the doctrine is based on the Divine nature of Christ, and on His incarnation. As in the Gospel (John 1:1-18) it is said that the Word was Go...
Hebrews 2:1-4. These verses are closely connected with the first chapter, and scarcely less closely with the subsequent verses of the second. It is characteristic of these warnings and exhortations th...
Hebrews 2:1. WE HAVE HEARD, rather ‘[the things] heard,' an expression less definite, and intended to include all that was spoken by our Lord and by His servants, whatever was heard by them and report...
THEREFORE (δια τουτο). Because Jesus is superior to prophets and angels and because the new revelation is superior to the old. The author often pauses in his argument, as here, to drive home a pung...
Hebrews 2:1 Drifting. The influences against which we are warned by the words of my text are those of currents which are flowing just where we are, and which may operate so insidiously that we may n...
Hebrews 2:1. _Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip._ It is well to give heed to what you are now hearing, but i...
Hebrews 2:1. _Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip._ That is to say, because Jesus is so great, because the tru...
Hebrews 2:1. _Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip._ We have heard them; do not let us forget them. Let them no...
CONTENTS: Warning against neglecting so great a salvation. Earth to be put under Christ. Jesus temporarily lower than angels to work out salvation for man. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, Satan...
Hebrews 2:1. _We ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard._ The things relating to the glory of the person of Christ, and all his offices as mediator; these we ought to st...
THAT IS WHY. Because God speaks to us through his Son. WE MUST HOLD ON. "We must seize the Truth spoken through the Son, and firmly hold on to it!" SO THAT. The symbolism is a_ swiftly flowing flood._...
_Give the more earnest heed._ --This exhortation reveals the purpose of the foregoing comparison between Christ and the angels. It is to establish Christ’s superior claim to be heard when He speaks in...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 2:1 This warning calls the reader to pay heed to the greater salvation which was declared by the Lord himself, attested by human eyewitnesses, and authenticated by God’s power....
THE HIGHER RESPONSIBILITIES OF HIGHER REVELATIONS _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE rhetorical character of the epistle is indicated in the hortatory passages that are so freely inserted. The exhor...
EXPOSITION HEBREWS 2:1 INTERPOSED EXHORTATION as explained above. HEBREWS 2:1 ON THIS ACCOUNT (_i.e. _on account of what has been seen of the SON'S superiority to the angels)...
1 Chronicles 22:13; 2 Peter 1:12; 2 Peter 1:13; 2 Peter 1:15; 2 Pe
Therefore [δ ι α τ ο υ τ ο]. Because you have received a revelation superior to that of the old dispensation, and given to you through one who is superior to the angels. To give the more earnest heed...
Lest we should let them slip — As water out of a leaky vessel. So the Greek word properly signifies....
As if our apostle had said, Seeing Christ is so excellent in his person, and seeing the gospel has such. glorious author as the blessed Jesus let us take great heed that we esteem his person, revere h...