ethelo - determination, will, purpose

[marie glen]

Hebrews 2:1-4
1 - We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, or we may DRIFT away from it. 2 For since the message spoken through angels was binding (unalterable) and every violation of it received its just wage (translated recompense). [Misthapodosia: payment of wages, from misth?s - reward and apod?dōmi - return, give back.]
     🤔 I can?t help but think here of Mt.25 - vs.6,  ? At midnight the cry rang out! ?The bridegroom?s here! Come out to meet him!? 8 Then half of the bridesmaids said, ?Oh no! Our lamps are going out!? and to their sister bridesmaids said ?Quick give us a little of your oil!? And of course they couldn?t or they?d all ?miss the boat?. ? Moral, we cannot borrow someone else?s light (learning, knowing). That will not work. And of course Jesus is the Light. That?s the way God made it. Binding. And sufficient! The bridesmaids get to the door of the celebration late and find it shut. They knock but the groom says ?But I don?t know you!? (You party crashers.) But get this - it?s assumed by our erstwhile translators, the worst! (I?m not sure what erstwhile means, but it sounds pretty good doesn?t it?) But is this reaLLy the door to Life? And it is shut forever?!
     Of course not! Even with just the parable itself, that makes no sense. The door is to the wedding and celebration. Now if not acquainted with the Scriptures, or have drifted from their meaning, it takes a little focusing of the lens to see what, or when, the door is shut to.
     ..We could say the bridesmaids were in a binding contract.. but they didn?t fulfill their end of it.
     [Binding - b?baios - literally "what can be tread upon" then refers to what is fully dependable, i.e. worthy of confidence because on "solid footing." This describes what is fully secure, stable, and therefore can be trusted to give full support, from the same as basis.] [New King James Version - ?Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard, lest we drift away.?]
     3 So what makes us think we can escape if we ignore this great salvation that was first announced by the Lord Jesus himself and then delivered to us by those who heard him speak? [From a commentary - ?In a different context these words might naturally mean, ?How shall we, transgressors of the law, escape from the penalty it threatens, if we neglect the one means of deliverance now offered us??? (God is Life and ?is perfect? but we inherited from Adam imperfection - hamartia - missing the mark - so..? We pass away.. God gave dominion to man (anthropos). So in this universe (Rev.21:1) all matter is fading and falling apart. Yes apocalypse began with the first imperfect thought. But the other option? Ant farm. So the ?redemption, ransom, deliverance? rescue was ?built in from the foundation/beginning. Christ Jesus. All in Jesus.? And Jesus in all. And He being the only straight out from God one of same essence and character.. Logos - the expression of, and ?outraying of? God. Jesus is that expression and ?reasoning?. Logos is also ?reasoning expressed in words? - the Word - the written logos ? both expressions of Logos/Truth, the sWord that cuts through all fog and mists and it alone remains standing. The iron measure. What is, is.
     And verse 4 - God also testified to it by signs, wonders and various miracles, and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will/purpose. [Thel?sis - will, from ethelo - determination.]
   Nothing can impede God?s determination/purpose.
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