translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: HEB

label: NET translator note

text: Grk “Therefore leaving behind.” The implication is not of abandoning this elementary information, but of building on it.


text: Or “basic.”


text: Grk “the message of the beginning of Christ.”


text: Grk “leaving behind…let us move on.”


text: Grk “and we will do this.”


text: Or “have fallen away.”


text: Or “while”; Grk “crucifying…and holding.” The Greek participles here (“crucifying…and holding”) can be understood as either causal (“since”) or temporal (“while”).


text: Grk “recrucifying the son of God for themselves.”


text: Grk “comes upon.”


text: Grk “near to a curse.”


text: Or “dull.”


text: Grk “in blessing I will bless you and in multiplying I will multiply you,” the Greek form of a Hebrew idiom showing intensity. sn A quotation from Gen 22:17 .


text: Grk “he”; in the translation the referent (Abraham) has been specified for clarity.


text: The plural Greek term ἄνθρωποι ( anqrwpoi ) is used here in a generic sense, referring to both men and women, and is thus translated “people.”


text: Grk “by something greater”; the rest of the comparison (“than themselves”) is implied.


text: Grk “the oath for confirmation is an end of all dispute.”


text: Grk “in which.”


text: Or “immutable” (here and in v. 18 ); Grk “the unchangeableness of his purpose.”


text: Grk “have taken refuge”; the basis of that refuge is implied in the preceding verse.