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(κρατῶμεν τῆς ὁμολογίας) and 3:6 (ἐὰν τὴν παρρησίαν καὶ τὸ καύχημα τῆς ἐλπίδος … κατάσχωμεν). This hope for the future was first confessed at baptism, and rests upon God’s promise1 (as already explained in 6:17, 18). It is to be held ἀκλινής, a term applied by Philo to the word of a good man (ὁ γὰρ τοῦ σπουδαίου, φησί, λόγος ὅρκος ἔστω, βέβαιος, ἀκλινής, ἀψευδέστατος, ἐρηρεισμένος ἀληθείᾳ, de Spec. Leg. ii. 1); in Irenaeus it recurs in a similar connexion (i.
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