Heb_2:2-4. Establishing of the
δεῖ
περισσοτέρως
προσέχειν
ἡμᾶς
τοῖς
ἀκουσθεῖσιν
, Heb_2:1, by a warning reference to the great responsibility and culpability in the case of its neglect, and this in a conclusion a minore ad majus. Not justifiably does de Wette take Heb_2:2-4 as a “proving of the danger of the
παραῤῥ
.” For not the possibility of foregoing salvation, but the culpability of losing it through neglect, forms the central thought in Heb_2:2-4.