3:8 “Do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion, in the day of testing in the wilderness.
12:14 Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, 6 for without it no one will see the Lord.
1 sn The Greek correlative conjunctions μέν and δέ (men and de) emphasize the contrastive parallelism of vs. 7 (what God says about the angels) over against vv. 8-9 and vv. 10-12 (what God says about the son).
2 tn Grk “He who makes.”
3 sn A quotation from Ps 104:4.
4 tn Grk “sent for service for the sake of those.”
5 tn Grk “not…of shrinking back to perdition but of faith to the preservation of the soul.”
6 sn The references to peace and holiness show the close connection between this paragraph and the previous one. The pathway toward “holiness” and the need for it is cited in Heb 12:10 and 14. More importantly Prov 4:26-27 sets up the transition from one paragraph to the next: It urges people to stay on godly paths (Prov 4:26, quoted here in v. 13) and promises that God will lead them in peace if they do so (Prov 4:27 [LXX], quoted in v. 14).
7 sn A quotation from Exod 19:12-13.