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The New American Commentary series is an exceptionally acclaimed resource for ministers and Bible students who want to understand and expound the Scriptures. Notable features in this new Hebrews volume by scholar David Allen include commentary based on the New International Version text printed in the body of the commentary, sound scholarly methodology reflecting capable research in the original...

running: “by means of having thrown off … let us run.” It could also express an attendant circumstance or be taken in a hortatory manner.388 The participle is completed with a compound direct object: “everything that hinders and the sin.” Some see the kai, “and,” as just coordinating two items: “everything that hinders” and “sin.”389 Others take it as introducing a specific kind of weight: “laying aside every weight, especially the sin.”390 The former is probably to be preferred. The noun onkos is
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