Hebrews 6:2

Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

The doctrine of baptisms - paired with "laying on of hands," as the latter followed Christian baptism, and answers to confirmation in Episcopal churches. Jewish believers passed, by an easy transition, from Jewish baptismal purifications (, "washings"), baptism of proselytes, John's baptism, and legal imposition of hands, to their Christian analogues, baptism, and the subsequent laying on of hands, accompanied by the Holy Spirit (cf. ; ; Acts 8:14). [Baptismoi, plural, including Jewish and Christian baptisms are to be distinguished from Baptisma, singular, restricted to Christian baptism.] The six particulars specified had been the Christian Catechism of the Old Testament. Such Jews who had begun to recognize Jesus as the Christ immediately on the new light being shed on these fundamental particulars were accounted as having the elementary principles of Christ's doctrine (Bengel). The first and most obvious elementary instruction of Jews, would be teaching the typical significance of their own ceremonial law in its Christian fulfillment (Alford).

Resurrection ... - held already by the Jews from the Old Testament: confirmed with clearer light in Christian "doctrine."

Eternal judgment - fraught with eternal consequences either of joy or of woe.