1:5 For to which of the angels did God 1 ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”? 2 And in another place 3 he says, 4 “I will be his father and he will be my son.” 5
11:8 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place he would later receive as an inheritance, and he went out without understanding where he was going.
1 tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
2 tn Grk “I have begotten you.”
sn A quotation from Ps 2:7.
3 tn Grk “And again,” quoting another OT passage.
4 tn The words “he says” are not in the Greek text but are supplied to make a complete English sentence. In the Greek text this is a continuation of the previous sentence, but English does not normally employ such long and complex sentences.
5 tn Grk “I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me.”
sn A quotation from 2 Sam 7:14 (cf. 1 Chr 17:13).
6 tn This verb occurs in the Greek middle voice, which here intensifies the role of the subject, Christ, in accomplishing the action: “he alone secured”; “he and no other secured.”