...call not on his name. He will turn all nations into hell that forget God. Jer. x. 25. Psalm ix. 17. "Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed...the things which we have heard, lest at any time we let them slip ; for if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience...

...still more highly privileged Christians, lest any man "fall after the same example of unbelief." " For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and...every transgression and disobedience received a just recompence of reward ; how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation ; which at tht- first began...

...children of God thereby. — Therefore, said he, verse 1.. u"flVE ought to give the more earnest b*ed to the things which WE have heard. lest at any time WE should let them slip." We? who? WE CHRISTIAN BELIEVERS : WE CONVERTED As if he had said, 7, Paul^an apostle, who ana a converted...

...authorized version is clear 166 Sampsons Translation of the Epistle to the Hebrews. and satisfactory. " Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to...heard, lest at any time we should let them slip." Mr. Sampson's rendering is scarcely intelligible : For this cause we ought the more eminently to restrain...

...with the scriptures in general. In the second chapter, verse the first, the inspired author observes, "We ought to give the more earnest heed to the things...heard, lest at any time we should let them slip." Whom is he addressing? and what does he mean by letting slip? Doubtless he is addressing the Hebrews...

...a light which shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts6. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to...we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slipc. As new born babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby11. • ' 9...

...The key which unlocks this treasury of sacred truth lies in ch. ii. 1 — 3. Therefore we [believers] ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should run out, [as leaking vessels, (margin.)] For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and every transgression...

...lest, a promise being left us of entering to his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it. We ought to give the more earnest heed to the things...recompense of reward, how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?" All this, and much more to the same purpose, is the doctrine of an eminent preacher...

...everlasting penalties. We have often told you this, and shall dismiss you at present with these words: ''Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed..."let them slip. For if the word spoken by angels was "stedfast, and every transgression and disobedience rc"ceivcd a just recompense of reward, how shall...

...to whom an incarnate God was never revealed — reasoning as an apostle did in a similar instance; "For if the word spoken by angels was steadfast, and...recompense of reward, how shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation?"f You must habitually anticipate the day when the despised Galilean shall come...