Heb. 12:4
Posted: January 14th, 2018, 3:00 pm
Οὔπω μέχρις αἵματος ἀντικατέστητε πρὸς τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἀνταγωνιζόμενοι
It is my understanding that this text is usually taken to be a statement that the readers of Hebrews have not yet experienced martyrdom (cf. how this is witnessed to respectively in the translations of it in the Holman Christian Standard Bible and the International Standard Version -- "In struggling against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood" "In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood".) But is this the case? Is there any reason to say that it is actually a note on the part of the author of Hebrews to his (?) readers that they have not yet engaged in, but are perhaps on the brink of, the taking of someone else's life?
Jeffrey
It is my understanding that this text is usually taken to be a statement that the readers of Hebrews have not yet experienced martyrdom (cf. how this is witnessed to respectively in the translations of it in the Holman Christian Standard Bible and the International Standard Version -- "In struggling against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood" "In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood".) But is this the case? Is there any reason to say that it is actually a note on the part of the author of Hebrews to his (?) readers that they have not yet engaged in, but are perhaps on the brink of, the taking of someone else's life?
Jeffrey