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Can someone verify the following for accuracy
A person swinging an axe splits the wood. The swinging is the action. The splitting is what the swinging does. No one reads that sentence and thinks the splitting caused the swinging.
Now apply to Hebrews 6:6:
Swinging the axe is anakainizein or “renew” or continuously make upwardly profoundly new
Splits the wood is anastaurountas or “crucifies” or continuously upwardly crucify
Renew is what causes crucifixion. Hebrews declares the sacrifice once for all making this impossible.
When a bare participle follows a governing verb with no connecting particle, the participle describes what the action inherently involves. The swinging and the splitting. One motion described from two directions.
In Hebrews 6:6 a present infinitive is followed by a bare present participle with no connecting particle. Both present tense. Both carrying the same prefix. Both appearing nowhere else in the New Testament. Both placed side by side by the most sophisticated Greek writer in the canon.
The pattern appears throughout the New Testament. In every instance the participle does the same thing. In every instance no one argues.
John 5:44 — how can you believe, receiving glory from one another? The believing and the receiving. One involves the other. No one adds because.
Colossians 1:10 — to walk worthily of the Lord, bearing fruit and growing. The walking is the bearing fruit. No one adds while.
Hebrews 11:17 — by faith Abraham offered up Isaac, being tested. The offering is the being tested. Same event from two angles. Same author as 6:6. No one adds since.
Hebrews 12:1–2 — let us run the race, looking to Jesus. The running and the looking are one motion. Same author. Same letter. No one disputes this.
A person swinging an axe splits the wood. The swinging is the action. The splitting is what the swinging does. No one reads that sentence and thinks the splitting caused the swinging.
Now apply to Hebrews 6:6:
Swinging the axe is anakainizein or “renew” or continuously make upwardly profoundly new
Splits the wood is anastaurountas or “crucifies” or continuously upwardly crucify
Renew is what causes crucifixion. Hebrews declares the sacrifice once for all making this impossible.
When a bare participle follows a governing verb with no connecting particle, the participle describes what the action inherently involves. The swinging and the splitting. One motion described from two directions.
In Hebrews 6:6 a present infinitive is followed by a bare present participle with no connecting particle. Both present tense. Both carrying the same prefix. Both appearing nowhere else in the New Testament. Both placed side by side by the most sophisticated Greek writer in the canon.
The pattern appears throughout the New Testament. In every instance the participle does the same thing. In every instance no one argues.
John 5:44 — how can you believe, receiving glory from one another? The believing and the receiving. One involves the other. No one adds because.
Colossians 1:10 — to walk worthily of the Lord, bearing fruit and growing. The walking is the bearing fruit. No one adds while.
Hebrews 11:17 — by faith Abraham offered up Isaac, being tested. The offering is the being tested. Same event from two angles. Same author as 6:6. No one adds since.
Hebrews 12:1–2 — let us run the race, looking to Jesus. The running and the looking are one motion. Same author. Same letter. No one disputes this.