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And, [His completed experience] making Him perfectly [equipped], He became the Author and Source of eternal salvation to all those who give heed and obey Him,(A)

10 Being [a]designated and recognized and saluted by God as High Priest after the order (with [b]the rank) of Melchizedek.(B)

11 Concerning this we have much to say which is hard to explain, since you have become dull in your [spiritual] hearing and sluggish [even [c]slothful in achieving spiritual insight].

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Footnotes

  1. Hebrews 5:10 Alexander Souter, Pocket Lexicon.
  2. Hebrews 5:10 Joseph Thayer, A Greek-English Lexicon.
  3. Hebrews 5:11 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.

and, once made perfect,(A) he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him 10 and was designated by God to be high priest(B) in the order of Melchizedek.(C)

Warning Against Falling Away(D)

11 We have much to say about this, but it is hard to make it clear to you because you no longer try to understand.

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