“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 must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away — the warning "proskechein" sets the ethical tone; the reader's response to God's word is not passive reception but active, deliberate adherence. To drift is to be carried along by a current, a passive movement away from the truth.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 2:1
And having spoken concerning the Son, both what related to the Economy, and what related to the Creation, and to His sovereignty, and having shown His co-equal dignity, and that as absolute Master He rules not men only but also the powers above, he next exhorts them, having made out his argument, that we ought to give heed to the things which have been heard. Hebrews 2:1 “Wherefore we ought to give more earnest heed” (says he) “to the things which we have heard.” Why “more…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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