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.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Ne forte pereffluamus, mepote pararrnomen. Ver. 16. Nusquam enim Angelos apprehendit, sed semen Abrahæ apprehendit, epilambanetai, assumit, vel assumpsit.
Lest perhaps we should let them slip away, or run out, like water out of leaking vessels, which is lost, and cannot be take up again. According to the letter it is, lest we run out; the sense must be, lest we do not sufficiently attend to these truths. (Witham)
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 earnest? Here he meant more earnest than to the Law: but he suppressed the actual expression of it, and yet makes it plain in the course of reasoning, not in the way of counsel, nor of exhortation. For so it was better.
