[B-Greek] hUPOSTASIS Hebrews 3:14

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Thu Jan 10 14:59:34 EST 2008



Michael Abernathy wrote:

> I note that most translations interpret hUPOSTASEWS in Hebrews 3:14 to
> mean something along the line of confidence.
> ἐάνπερ τὴν ἀρχὴν τη̂ς ὑποστάσεως μέχρι τέλους βεβαίαν κατάσχωμεν
> EANPER THN ARCHN THS hUPOSTASEWS MEXRI TELOUS BEBAIAN KATASXWMEN
>
> Is there any reason that this could not be understood to mean something
> along the line of,
> "If we hold firmly to the end the beginning of existence"

Umm .. what?  I am not able to make any sense of this.

Jeffrey
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