Saints Translation

By Vincent Melli

Hebrews — Greek text and reception

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Hebrews 2 — Greek text and reception

Saints Translation: Hebrews 1–13 [V2]

Each card preserves the Greek reading and its textual and reception notes. This source provides a Greek study edition; Hebrew counterparts and Hebrew–Greek classifications are not supplied.

Chapter 2

Attend to the great salvation

Verse 2:1

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For this reason we must attend all the more to the things heard, lest we drift away.

Textual & Reception Notes

Verse 2:2

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For if the word spoken through angels became firm, and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense,

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Verse 2:3

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? It began to be spoken through the Lord and was confirmed to us by those who heard,

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Verse 2:4

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

God bearing witness together with signs and wonders and various mighty deeds and distributions of the Holy Spirit according to His own will.

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Glory through suffering

Verse 2:5

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For He did not subject to angels the inhabited world to come, of which we speak.

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Verse 2:6

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

But someone testified somewhere, saying, “What is a human being, that You remember him, or a son of man, that You care for him?

Textual & Reception Notes

The quotation’s human being and son of man are kept lower-case at first; the application to Jesus becomes explicit at 2:9.

Verse 2:7

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

You made him a little lower than angels; You crowned him with glory and honor;

Textual & Reception Notes

A little lower can concern degree or duration, for a little while. Text [G]: No added appointed him over the works of Your hands clause.

Verse 2:8

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

You subjected all things beneath his feet.” For in subjecting all things, He left nothing unsubjected to him. But now we do not yet see all things subjected to him.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text [G]: NA28 reads ὑποτάξαι [αὐτῷ] in brackets (SBLGNT omits); the rendering above follows SBLGNT, and NA28 would read "For in subjecting all things to him".

Verse 2:9

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than angels, crowned with glory and honor because of the suffering of death, so that apart from God He might taste death on behalf of everyone.

Textual & Reception Notes

Text [G]: Chōris theou, apart from God, is the actual selected reading; it is not the familiar by the grace of God. The phrase’s relation to death or to the scope of everyone remains a significant interpretive question. It has not been silently corrected to another edition.

Text [G]: NA28 reads χάριτι θεοῦ (SBLGNT χωρὶς θεοῦ); the rendering above follows SBLGNT, and NA28 would read "by the grace of God".[G]

Verse 2:10

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For it was fitting for Him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things, in bringing many sons into glory, to perfect the pioneer of their salvation through sufferings.

Textual & Reception Notes

Archēgos is pioneer or leader. Perfect concerns bringing the saving task to its completion through sufferings; the source does not say that Jesus first ceased to be sinful.

Verse 2:11

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For both the One who sanctifies and those being sanctified are all from one. For this reason He is not ashamed to call them brothers,

Textual & Reception Notes

From one leaves the source concise; God, a shared origin, and human stock are possible interpretations of the unexpressed complement.

Verse 2:12

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

saying, “I will announce Your name to My brothers; in the midst of the assembly I will sing praise to You.”

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Verse 2:13

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

And again, “I will put My trust in Him.” And again, “Behold, I and the children whom God gave Me.”

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Verse 2:14

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Therefore, since the children have shared in blood and flesh, He Himself likewise partook of the same, so that through death He might render powerless the one who has the might of death, that is, the devil,

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Verse 2:15

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

and release those who through fear of death were subject to slavery throughout their whole lives.

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Verse 2:16

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For surely it is not angels He takes hold of, but He takes hold of Abraham’s seed.

Textual & Reception Notes

Takes hold of retains epilambanomai. Helping is the contextual implication; takes the nature of would add a noun not present.

Verse 2:17

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

Therefore He had to be made like His brothers in all things, so that He might become a merciful and faithful high priest in matters concerning God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people.

Textual & Reception Notes

Hilaskeisthai is rendered make propitiation for, following the reference’s contextual preference. Its object is the people’s sins. Atonement and expiation describe related nuances; this English choice does not settle a theological theory.

Verse 2:18

Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)

For because He Himself suffered when tested, He is able to help those who are being tested.

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