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Hebrews 2:3
how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard Him,
how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard Him,
Verse Hebrews 2:3. _HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE_] If they who had fewer privileges than we have, to whom God spoke in divers manners by angels and prophets, fell under the displeasure of their Maker, and wer...
HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE - How shall we escape the just recompense due to transgressors? What way is there of being saved from punishment, if we suffer the great salvation to be neglected, and do not embra...
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...
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...
THE SALVATION WE DARE NOT NEGLECT (Hebrews 2:1-4)...
IF WE NEGLECT. neglecting. Greek. _ameleo._ See 1 Timothy 4:14. WHICH, &C. Literally receiving. beginning. LORD. App-98. AND. Omit. CONFIRMED. Greek. _bebaioo._ See Romans 15:8. UNTO. Greek. _eis...
_how shall we escape_ The "_we_" (being expressed in the original) is emphatic _we_who are sons, not servants. The verb means "how shall we succeed in escaping," or, "make good our escape" namely, fro...
ΠΩ͂Σ ἩΜΕΙ͂Σ ἘΚΦΕΥΞΌΜΕΘΑ; The “_we_” (being expressed in the original) is emphatic—_we_ who are sons, not servants—the compound verb means “how shall we _succeed in escaping_,” or, “_make good our esca...
A SOLEMN WARNING AND EXHORTATION...
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...
_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...
ΈΚΦΕΥΞΌΜΕΘΑ _fut. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΚΦΕΎΓΟΜΑΙ (G1628) убегать, убирать. Риторический вопрос, использованный в аподосисе, содержит доказательство a fortiori: "Если более раннее послание Бона столь...
DISCOURSE: 2273 GREATNESS OF THE GOSPEL SALVATION Hebrews 2:3. _How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?_ TO estimate our privileges aright, we should compare them, not with those of th...
HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE, &C.!— The _Jews_ had no reason to imagine that God would remit the punishments threatened in the law, if they resolved to adhere to it, and would not embrace the condition of fait...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS Special Study GIFTS, MIRACLES (HEBREWS 2:3-4) Introduction I. DEFINITION OF MIRACLE A. An event occurring in the natural world, observed by the senses, produced by divine power,...
_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...
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him; WE - emphatic: who have received the mes...
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...
2:3 of (r-10) Not merely neglected when presented, but not cared for when, as here, they were nominally inside making profession. As Matthew 22:5 . 'They made light of' the invitation to the supper....
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...
HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE? — In a different context these words might naturally mean, “How shall we, transgressors of the law, escape from the penalty it threatens, if we neglect the one means of deliveranc...
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...
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....
πῶς ἡμεῖς.… “How shall we” to whom God has spoken through the Son, Hebrews 1:2 “escape (ἔνδικον μισθ. prob. in final judgment, as in Hebrews 10:27) if we have neglected (the aorist ἀμελήσαντες suggest...
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...
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...
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...
GOD GIVES A JUST REWARD The “word spoken through angels” is all of the Old Testament revelation (Galatians 3:10; Acts 7:51:53). It can be considered steadfast because God backed it up with His power....
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; (2) which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by (d) them that heard [him]; (2) If the neglect and disobedienc...
(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...
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,...
_THE SIN OF SINS_ ‘How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?’ Hebrews 2:3 Is not the sin of sins the ‘neglect’ of His ‘great salvation,’ which has been wrought with such marvellous wis...
3._If we neglect so great a salvation, etc. _Not only the rejection of the Gospel, but also its neglect, deserves the heaviest punishment, and that on account of the greatness of the grace which it of...
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...
HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE,.... The righteous judgment of God, and eternal punishment: IF WE NEGLECT SO GREAT SALVATION? as the Gospel is, which is called salvation; in opposition to the law, which is the m...
In these three verses the apostle follows on his exhortation, laid down in that foregoing, and giveth many peculiar enforcements unto a due compliance with it, as we shall see in our exposition of the...
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard _him_; Ver. 3. _If we neglect_] He saith not, if...
HEB. 2:3. HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE, IF WE NEGLECT SO GREAT SALVATION: WHICH AT THE FIRST BEGAN TO BE SPOKEN BY THE LORD, AND WAS CONFIRMED UNTO US BY THEM THAT HEARD (HIM); In his early sermon, _The Just...
_For if the word spoken by angels_ The law delivered by their ministry. It is nowhere affirmed that the law was _given_ by angels, but that the people received it, εις διαταγας αγγελων, _by the dispos...
The neglect of Christ's salvation is ruinous to the soul....
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...
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...
HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE? This consequent answereth the antecedent in HEBREWS 2:2, but in one part of it, that which concerns the punishment of the transgressors of the law, thus: If the word by angels, mu...
Pseudo-Gregory Thaumaturgus A Sectional Confession of Faith Moreover, in the Epistle to the Hebrews he writes again thus: "How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first be...
Hebrews 2:3 how G4459 shall G2249 escape G1628 (G5695) neglect G272 (G5660) great G5082 salvation G4991 which...
Hebrews 2:3. BY THE LORD, rather through, by the instrumentality of. When instrumentality is clearly expressed in the context, as when it is said, ‘By whom He made the worlds' (chap. Hebrews 1:2), no...
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...
HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE? (πως ημεις εκφευξομεθα;). Rhetorical question with future middle indicative of εκφευγω and conclusion of the condition.IF WE NEGLECT (αμελησαντες). First aorist active partic...
SALVATION (_ See Scofield) - (Romans 1:16). _...
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._ We have heard them; do not let us forget them. Let them no...
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...
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...
HOW, THEN, SHALL WE ESCAPE? "Christ is greater than the angels; and this means the Good News is greater than the Law. If those who did not pay attention to the Law were punished severely, how can we e...
_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...
_How shall we escape, if we neglect_ THE SINFULNESS AND THE DANGER OF NEGLECTING THE GOSPEL The great salvation of which the apostle testifies is not the salvation which the gospel reveals, but the...
HEBREWS—NOTE ON HEBREWS 2:3 HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE? If the Mosaic law came with “retribution” for failure to obey it (v. Hebrews 2:2), then surely the greater salvation announced by t
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 Peter 4:17; 1 Peter 4:18; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; 1 Timothy 1:15;...
How shall we escape [π ω ς η μ ε ι ς ε κ φ ε υ ξ ο μ ε θ α]. The rhetorical question expressing denial. We is emphatic. We, to whom God has spoken by his Son, and who, therefore, have so much the more...
So great a salvation — A deliverance from so great wickedness and misery, into so great holiness and happiness. This was first spoken of (before he came it was not known) by Him who is the Lord — of a...