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Heb 12:4. Οὔπω, not yet) A spirited Asyndeton.-μέχρις αἵματος, even unto blood) unto wounds and death. The writer goes from the race to the pugilistic contest, as Paul does in the passages formerly quoted. You have, says he, spent your wealth, you have not shed your blood: Heb 10:34. Set before your minds more important trials, [namely, such as you have not hitherto experienced; 1Co 10:13.-V. g.]-ἀντικατέστητε, you have resisted) Because contradiction is taken in a bad sense, he uses the word, ἀντικαταστῆναι, to resist, in a good sense. See the LXX. in a passage which is presently to be quoted.-πρὸς) Construed with ἀντικατέστητε. Deu 31:21, καὶ ἀντικαταστήσεται ἡ ᾠδὴ αὓτη ΚΑΤΑ πρόσωπον αὐτῶν μαρτυροῦσα, and this song will answer against them as a witness.-ἀνταγωνιζόμενοι, striving against) Sin excites a strife: it is our duty to strive against it.