Chapter 2
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| 2:1 For this reason, it is inevitable that we would devote ourselves excessively to what we have heard, lest it slip away. 2 For if the word that was spoken through angels was firm, and every stepping aside and hearing amiss received a just payment, 3 how will we escape if we have neglected a salvation such as this? – Which those who heard, having first received it spoken by the Lord, have made it firm into us, • 4 God united in bearing witness together with them by signs and wonders and by various powers and distributions out from the Devoted Spirit, down to the finest details of His desire. 5 Indeed, it was not to angels that He subjected the imminent inhabited heaven-earth, concerning which we are speaking; moreover, 6 someone testified, saying, “What is man, that You presently hold him in mind or the son of man that You come to visit with him? 7 For a brief while, You made mankind as lower than angels; You crowned him with glory and honor and have appointed him in charge over the works of Your hands. • 8 You have put all in subjection under the feet of humans” (Psalm 8:4-6). For in already and always subjecting all to mankind, God left nothing not subject [c]. • Now, however, we do not yet see [by outward appearance] all things subjected. 9 But we see Jesus, for a brief while having been made as one lower than angels, through the suffering of death, who has been crowned with glory and honor, • so that by grace coming out from God, He might eat up death for the sake of all. • 10 Indeed, it was fitting and suitable for God, through whom are all and by whom are all, having already brought many sons into glory, to complete the Archetype of their salvation through endured passions and sufferings. • 11 For the One actively and presently making devoted and those who are presently being made devoted, both are all out from One [God]; for which reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters, 12 saying, “I will declare Your name to My brothers and sisters. Inside the midst of the called out ones, that is, the Church, I will sing praises to You” (Psalm 22:22). 13 And again, “I will be persuaded and have confidence upon Him” (2 Samuel 22:3) • And again, “Here am I, look at Me, I and the children whom God has given Me” (Isaiah 8:18) [d]. • 14 Therefore, since the children have shared blood and flesh, He also in the same way actively partook of the same, so that through death, He might destroy the one holding the power of death, that is, the devil and accuser, 15 and might release those who through fear of death were of slavery all their lives. 16 For indeed, He never took hold in any place of [the form of] angels, but He took hold of [the form of] the offspring of Abraham. • 17 Therefore, He ought to be made just exactly like His brothers and sisters in every possible way, • that He might become a merciful and faithful High Priest connecting us continuously with God, into making propitiation and full resolution for the people who were falling short and disconnecting from God. • 18 For since He himself has suffered, having been tested [by evil], He is able to rescue actively and completely those who are being tested. |
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