Hebrews 2:1-18
Continuing from the end of ‘chapter 1’:
Hebrews 2:1-4:
2:1Because-of-this it is necessary more-exceedingly (for) us to have-attention to the (things) having been heard lest-perhaps we may be caused-to-flow-aside (from them), .2for if the word having been uttered-forth by means of angels became firm and all stepping-aside and disobedience received a rightly-due compensation-payment, .3how will we escape having been unconcerned of so-great a salvation, the-one-which, having received a beginning to be uttered-forth by means of the Lord, was made-firm into us by the (people) having heard, .4God bearing-witness-together both with signs and wonders and variegated abilities and distributions of holy spirit according to His intention?
On account of this, what is written in chapter 1, it is binding more abundantly for us (all of us) to hold our attention to the things having been heard (we must, we ought more than above the measure already attained by us to turn our minds, thoughts and attention towards/for the purpose of the things that have already been heard by us) – why? – lest perhaps (whether or not, whether it may happen at any time or not that) we would be caused to flow aside from them (made by others to move as a river beside them but not actually getting right on top of them, which is where we should be in our walk, our behavior).
In truth…
- if/since the word that was uttered-forth (the account of God’s inner-thoughts spoken to mankind) through angels became firm (sure, steady, definite)
- and all stepping-aside (every willful transgression, the action of going beside and thus against God’s Word) and disobedience (every hearing aside, literally hearing what God gives to believe, but deciding to put what is heard aside from oneself, refusing to carry it out, thus going against what is heard, against God's Word)
- received a rightly-due compensation-payment (a wage given as the pay-back that was justly due),
- how will we escape (how will we, emphatically ‘we’, flee out from a rightly-due compensation payment) having been unconcerned of so-great a salvation (after we have been without concern, careless, no interest, what we heard did not cause us any thought whatsoever and so we disregarded so great a degree of salvation, safety, the standing and state of being made-safe to God from sins and their consequences),
- the salvation which,
- after it had received a beginning (start, origin) to be spoken by God to mankind through the Lord (Master, Jesus Christ),
- was made-firm into us (it was made sure, steady, definite for us) by the agency of the people who heard the Lord speaking,
- God bearing-witness-together (God is presently and actively witnessing, attesting with His knowledge emphatically of/for this salvation in conjunction with what these people heard and spoke to us) – how? –
- both with signs (signals or standards of designation and authentication)
- and wonders (supernatural occurrences)
- and variegated abilities (manifold able-powers, various capabilities)
- and distributions of holy spirit (impartations of holy spirit, things imparted as dividing something into parts and then distributing the different parts to others, apportionments of holy spirit, this includes all that emanates from the spirit, such as movement, speech, etc, actions done according to and motivated by spirit; every holy-person has received holy spirit-life inside of us; singular ‘holy spirit’ because there is only one gift of holy spirit)
- according to His intention (in accordance, conformity and proportion to/with God’s active volition and desire, His will)?
Paul does not write a short answer to this question but instead he continues to teach and explain “so-great a salvation”.
[Reference: Deuteronomy 33:2; Ezra 6:18; Psalm 68:17; Matthew 22:5; John 14:26, 16:13; Acts chapters 1 and 2, 1:8, 2:42 and 43, 5:12, 7:53, 9:1-20, 10:34-43, 14:3, 22:14 and 15; Romans 3:8, 4:15, 5:19, 12:3-8, 15:19; I Corinthians 7:17, 9:1, 12:12-27, 15:3-11; II Corinthians 10:13, 12:11 and 12; Galatians 3:19; Ephesians 2:20, 4:4; Colossians 1:18; I Thessalonians 2:13; I Timothy 4:14; Hebrews 10:26-39, 12:25; II Peter 1:16, 3:15 and 16.]
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