“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 ignore so great a salvation? This salvation was first announced by the Lord, and those who heard him have confirmed it to us — Warning 1 of Hebrews announces the rhetorical escalation: the Son himself announced the gospel; apostolic witnesses confirmed it. To neglect such a proclamation is to court inescapable judgment.
Church Fathers on Hebrews 2:3
Why ought we to “give more earnest heed to the things which we have heard”? Were not those former things of God, as well as these? Either then he means “more earnest” than [to] the Law, or “very earnest”; not making comparison, God forbid. For since, on account of the long space of time, they had a great opinion of the Old Covenant, but these things had been despised as yet new, he proves (more than his argument required) that we ought rather to give heed to these. How? By…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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