3:12 See to it, 1 brothers and sisters, 2 that none of you has 3 an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes 4 the living God. 5
1 tn Or “take care.”
2 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 2:11.
3 tn Grk “that there not be in any of you.”
4 tn Or “deserts,” “rebels against.”
5 tn Grk “in forsaking the living God.”
6 tn Grk “that he inaugurated for us as a fresh and living way,” referring to the entrance mentioned in v. 19.
7 sn Through his flesh. In a bold shift the writer changes from a spatial phrase (Christ opened the way through the curtain into the inner sanctuary) to an instrumental phrase (he did this through [by means of] his flesh in his sacrifice of himself), associating the two in an allusion to the splitting of the curtain in the temple from top to bottom (Matt 27:51; Mark 15:38; Luke 23:45). Just as the curtain was split, so Christ’s body was broken for us, to give us access into God’s presence.