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Therefore (διὰ τοῦτο)
Because you have received a revelation superior to that of the old dispensation, and given to you through one who is superior to the angels.
To give the more earnest heed (περισσοτέρως προσέξειν)
Lit. to give heed more abundantly. Προσέχειν to give heed, lit. to hold (the mind) to. oP. The full phrase in Job 7:17. Mostly in Luke, Acts, and the Pastorals. See on 1Ti 1:4. Περισσοτέρως more abundantly, in Hebrews only here and Heb 13:19; elsewhere only in Paul.
To the things which we have heard (τοῖς ἀκουσθεῖσιν)
Lit. to the things which were heard, that is, from the messengers of the gospel. Comp. the phrase ὁ λόγος τῆς ἀκοῆς the word of hearing, Heb 4:2; 1Th 2:13. Ἐυαγγέλιον gospel does not occur in the Epistle, and εὐαγγελίζεσθαι to proclaim good tidings, only twice.
We should let them slip (παραρυῶμεν)
Rend. should drift past them. N.T.o. From παρὰ by and ῥεῖν to flow. Of the snow slipping off from the soldiers' bodies, Xen. Anab. iv. 4, 11: of a ring slipping from the finger, Plut. Amat. 754: see also lxx, Pro 3:21, and Symmachus's rendering of Pro 4:21, “let not my words flow past (παραρρυησάτωσαν) before thine eyes.” The idea is in sharp contrast with giving earnest heed. Lapse from truth and goodness is more often the result of inattention than of design. Drifting is a mark of death: giving heed, of life. The log drifts with the tide: the ship breasts the adverse waves, because some one is giving earnest heed.