the same enthusiasm all the way to the end for the completion of your hope,” and in 6:18 speaks of “having fled our place in order to lay hold of the hope that lies ahead.” In 7:19 the author mentions “a better hope through which we are approaching God,” and just before the present passage, he speaks once more of the need to “hold on to the secure confession of hope” (10:23). Hope, then, has to do with the future, but it enables people to have boldness and confidence in the present as they move toward