While it is said (en tōi legesthai). Locative case with en of the articular present passive infinitive of legō, “in the being said.” Thus the author (cf. same phrase in Psa 42:4) introduces the repeated quotation from Heb 3:7, Heb 3:8. Probably it is to be connected with kataschōmen, though it can be joined with parakaleite in Heb 3:13 (treating Heb 3:14 as a parenthesis).