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Heb_2:1. Διὰ τοῦτο ] therefore, sc. because Christ, the mediator of the New Covenant, is as the Son of God so highly exalted above the angels, the intermediate agents in the giving of the Old Covenant.
δεῖ ] indication of the inner necessity resulting of itself from the described conditions.
περισσοτέρως ] so much the more, sc. than would be the case if He who proclaimed the ἀκουσθέντα were one of lower rank. We have not, however, to connect περισσοτέρως with δεῖ (Grotius, Bengel, Dindorf, Böhme, Kuinoel), but with προσέχειν as the main idea.
προσέχειν τινὶ πρ .] to give heed or attention to anything, sc. in order to hold fast to it.
τοῖς ἀκουσθεῖσιν ] to that which has been heard. The salvation preached by the Lord and His immediate disciples is intended, of which the readers had heard. Comp. Heb_2:3.
μήποτε παραῤῥυῶμεν ] lest haply we should be carried past it (comp. LXX. Pro_3:21 : υἱὲ μὴ παραῤῥυῇς , τήρησον δὲ ἐμὴν βουλὴν καὶ ἔννοιαν ), i.e. lest we lose it, fail of obtaining the salvation promised to us by the word we have heard; comp. Heb_2:3. The interpretation of Erasmus, Clarius, Beza, Cameron, Stuart, al.: lest we forget it, or let it escape attention, is unmeaning and almost tautological, παραῤῥυῶμεν (or παραρυῶμεν , as Lachmann and Tischendorf 2 and 7 write it, after A B* D* L à ), moreover, is not, as Wittich, Dindorf, and others suppose, conjunctive present active of παραῤῥυέω ,—for the forms παραῤῥυέω , παραῤῥύω , παραῤῥύημι are mere figments of the grammarians,[41] in order to derive certain tenses therefrom,—but sec. aorist conjunct, passive from ΠΑΡΑῤῬΈΩ .
[41] Without warrant Delitzsch denies this. He has not been able to adduce an instance in favour of the opposite opinion.