6:1 Therefore we must progress beyond 1 the elementary 2 instructions about Christ 3 and move on 4 to maturity, not laying this foundation again: repentance from dead works and faith in God,
1 tn Grk “Therefore leaving behind.” The implication is not of abandoning this elementary information, but of building on it.
2 tn Or “basic.”
3 tn Grk “the message of the beginning of Christ.”
4 tn Grk “leaving behind…let us move on.”
5 tn Grk “coming to an end,” “dying.”
6 sn Joseph’s prophecy about the exodus of the sons of Israel is found in Gen 50:24.
7 tn Grk “about his bones,” which refers by metonymy to the disposition of his bones, i.e., his burial.
sn The instructions about his burial are recorded in Gen 50:25.