Robertson Word Pictures - Hebrews 2:4 - 2:4

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Robertson Word Pictures - Hebrews 2:4 - 2:4


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God also bearing witness with them (sunepimarturountos tou theou). Genitive absolute with the present active participle of the late double compound verb sunepimartureō, to join (sun) in giving additional (epi) testimony (martureō). Here only in N.T., but in Aristotle, Polybius, Plutarch.

Both by signs (sēmeiois te kai) and wonders (kai terasin) and by manifold powers (kai poikilais dunamesin) and by gifts of the Holy Ghost (kai pneumatos hagiou merismois). Instrumental case used with all four items. See Act 2:22 for the three words for miracles in inverse order (powers, wonders, signs). Each word adds an idea about the erga (works) of Christ. Teras (wonder) attracts attention, dunamis (power) shows God’s power, sēmeion reveals the purpose of God in the miracles. For poikilais (manifold, many-coloured) see Mat 4:24; Jam 1:2. For merismos for distribution (old word, in N.T. only here and Heb 4:12) see 1Cor 12:4-30.

According to his own will (kata tēn autou thelēsin). The word thelēsis is called a vulgarism by Pollux. The writer is fond of words in -is.