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Therefore (dia touto). Because Jesus is superior to prophets and angels and because the new revelation is superior to the old. The author often pauses in his argument, as here, to drive home a pungent exhortation.
Ought (dei). It is necessity, necessity rather than obligation (chrē).
To give heed (prosechein). Present active infinitive with noun (accusative singular of nous) understood as in Act 8:6.
More earnest (perissoterōs). Comparative adverb, “more earnestly,” “more abundantly” as in 1Th 2:7
To the things that were heard (tois akoustheisin). Dative plural neuter of the articular participle first aorist passive of akouō.
Lest haply we drift away (mē pote pararuōmen). Negative clause of purpose with mē pote and the second aorist passive subjunctive of pararreō, old verb to flow by or past, to glide by, only here in N.T. (cf. Pro 3:21). Xenophon (Cyrop. IV. 52) uses it of the river flowing by. Here the metaphor is that “of being swept along past the sure anchorage which is within reach” (Westcott), a vivid picture of peril for all (“we,” hēmas).