Hebrews 10:39
But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
הערת לימוד
Study Note
The pastoral assurance — 'but we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls' — follows the severe warning of 10:26-31 and 10:35-38 with an affirmation that invites the community to identify with the faithful rather than the apostate. The rhetorical strategy is deliberate: severe warning (you could shrink back) followed by confident inclusion (but we are not those people) functions to prevent the very defection it names by reorienting the community's self-understanding toward perseverance. The quotation of Habakkuk 2:3-4 immediately preceding (10:37-38) grounds the confidence in scripture rather than mere pastoral optimism. The verse illustrates Hebrews' consistent pastoral method: holding together the full seriousness of possible apostasy with confident expectation of covenant faithfulness.
תרגומים נוספים
But we are not of them that shrink back unto perdition; but of them that have faith unto the saving of the soul.
and we are not of those drawing back to destruction, but of those believing to a preserving of soul.
But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.
הפניות צולבות
It repenteth me that I have set up Saul to be king: for he is turned back from following me, …
The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways: and a good man shall be satisfied from himself.
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.
Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell …
And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.
And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away …