Already-Not Yet in Hebrews 2:8-9

February 21, 2007 at 7:01 pm (Hebrews, Quotes)

I was attempting to read Hans-Friedrich Weiss’s commentary on Hebrews (it’s a German commentary), and, in my muddling through, came across this great quotation on Hebrews 2:8-9: “Das, was in christologischer Hinsicht bereits gegenwaertige and fuer alle Zukunft geltende Wirklichkeit ist, ist fuer den Christen ‘jetzt noch nicht’ sicht- und erfahrbar” (pg. 195). I have used a simple “e” to sub for the umlauts. Translated, it means something like this: “This, which Christologically considered is true both now and for all future time, is for the Christian ‘already/not yet,’ both visibly and experientially.”

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