Hebrews 2:1 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 2:1-4

The apostle proceeds in the plain profitable method of doctrine, reason, and use, through this epistle. Here we have the application of the truths before asserted and proved; this is brought in by the illative particle therefore, with which this chapter begins, and which shows its connection with the former, where the apostle having proved Christ to be superior to the angels by whose ministry the law was given, and therefore that the gospel dispensation must be more excellent than the legal,... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 2:1-4

2:1-4 We must, therefore, with very special intensity pay attention to the things that we have heard. For, if the word which was spoken through the medium of the angels proved itself to be certified as valid, and if every transgression and disobedience of it received its just recompense, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, a salvation of such a kind that it had its origin in the words of the Lord, and was then guaranteed to us by those who had heard it from his lips, while... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 2:1

Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed ,.... This is an inference from the apostle's discourse in the preceding chapter; since he, by whom God has spoke in these last days, is his Son, who is infinitely above the angels, they being his creatures, and worshippers of him, and ministers to him, and his; therefore the greater regard should be had to the Gospel spoken by him: even to the things which we have heard; which are no other than the truths of the Gospel, which had been... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 2:1

Therefore - Because God has spoken to us by his Son; and because that Son is so great and glorious a personage; and because the subject which is addressed to us is of such infinite importance to our welfare. We ought to give the more earnest heed - We should hear the doctrine of Christ with care, candour, and deep concern. Lest at any time we should let them slip - Μη ποτε παραρῥυωμεν· "Lest at any time we should leak out." This is a metaphor taken from unstanch vessels; the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 2:1

Verse 1 1.Therefore we ought, etc. He now declares what he had before in view, by comparing Christ with angels, even to secure the highest authority to his doctrine. For if the Law given through angels could not have been received with contempt, and if its transgression was visited with severe punishment, what is to happen, he asks, to the despisers of that gospel, which has the Son of God as its author, and was confirmed by so many miracles? The import of the whole is this, that the higher the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 2:1

On this account ( i.e. on account of what has been seen of the SON 'S superiority to the angels) we ought (or, we are bound ) more abundantly to give heed to the things that we have heard ( i.e. the gospel that has been preached to us in the Son), lest at any time (or, lest haply ) we let them slip (rather, float past them ) . The word παραρρυῶμεν (aorist subjunctive from παραρρέω ) denotes flowing or floating past anything. The allusion is to the danger,... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 2:1-4

A solemn parenthetical warning. Out of solicitude for the spiritual well-being of his readers, the writer pauses here for a moment, to enforce upon them the necessity of' holding fast the New Testament salvation. He does so in words which are burning with urgency. I. THE DUTY . How prone men are to "neglect the great salvation" ( Hebrews 2:3 )! All classes of sinners do so—the blasphemer, the infidel, the self-righteous mart, the respectable worldling, the procrastinator.... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 2:1-4

The superior privileges of Christians. "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to," etc. The "therefore" connects this chapter with the preceding. Because the Son of God is immeasurably greater than the angels, "we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard," etc. Our text presents to us a view of the superior privileges and the more solemn responsibilities of Christians as compared with those who lived in the earlier dispensation. We shall confine... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 2:1-4

The more solemn responsibilities of Christians. "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed," etc. As a necessary sequel to our former homily on these verses, let us now consider— I. THAT THEY TO WHOM ARE OFFERED THE GREATER PRIVILEGES OF THIS CHRISTIAN DISPENSATION ARE UNDER GREATER OBLIGATIONS THAN THEY OF THE EARLIER DISPENSATION WERE . In human relations as well as in the Divine government this principle is generally... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 2:1-4

An exhortation against drifting away from the glorious Son of God. This passage is evidently a parenthesis, no link in the argument. Like the acknowledged Epistles of Paul, this is characterized by frequent sudden and brief departures from the general outline of thought. Like a river, the outline is clear from beginning to end, but here and there are small side channels into which the stream is swiftly, involuntarily drawn, to rejoin the mare current a little lower down. One of these we... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 2:1-4

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 2:1-4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 2:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 2:1

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 2:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 2:1

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 2:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 2:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 2:1-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 2:1-4

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