Sunday, April 27, 2025

Hebrews 2:16

A couple months ago, I watched the Worship Anew program for 2 February (The Purification of Mary and Presentation of Our Lord).  The epistle reading was Hebrews 2:14-18, and I noticed verse 16 in particular:  "For surely it is not angels that he helps, but he helps the offspring of Abraham."

There's a chiastic structure highlighting this difference:
It is not angels
that he helps,
but he helps
the offspring of Abraham.
Of the translations I referenced, this is unique to the ESV and my German New Testament, in which this verse is:
Denn er nimmt sich
nicht der Engel an,
sondern der Kinder Abrahams
nimmt er sich an.