4:2 For we also have had the gospel preached to us, just as they did; but the message they heard was of no value to them, because those who heard did not combine it with faith. The Israelites had the gospel preached to them in the sense of receiving good news. The verb εὐαγγελίζω (euangelizō, “to bring good news, proclaim”) and its noun εὐαγγέλιον (euangelion, “the good news brought, gospel”) are general words about any good news. They came to be used in a special sense by Christians to mean
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