Footnotes

1. Hebrews 6:1 tn Grk “Therefore leaving behind.” The implication is not of abandoning this elementary information, but of building on it.
2. Hebrews 6:1 tn Or “basic.”
3. Hebrews 6:1 tn Grk “the message of the beginning of Christ.”
4. Hebrews 6:1 tn Grk “leaving behind…let us move on.”
5. Hebrews 6:1 sn It is clear from the context that the phrase “dead works” are works that need to be repented from and thus are sins. The same phrase occurs in Heb 9:14 in which the author of Hebrews states that our consciences need to be purified from them. As Bruce states, they are works “that belong to the way of death and not the way of life” (F. F. Bruce, Hebrews [NICNT], 138).
6. Hebrews 6:2 sn See Hebrews 9:10 and Mark 7:4 for other references to the Jewish practice of ritual washings.
7. Hebrews 6:3 tn Grk “and we will do this.”