Hebrews 2:1-4 - Drifting from the Message and Neglecting the Truth

“drift away” – pararuwmen - “pararuomen” is the aorist passive subjunctive of pararrew which means “to flow”. Subjunctive is the mood of potential. In the passive voice the subject receives the action. The passive here signifies that the person would find themselves in a state of flowing or drifting by. This verb is used in Greek writing with reference to:

1)a river that flows by a place or flows aside from its normal channel like during a flood

2)something slipping from someone's memory

3)a ring slipping from one's finger

4)a crumb going down the wrong way

5)a ship drifting away.

Notice here “we” the subject are the ones moving and drifting.

If we drift by this truth there is no other. This is the last stop. This is the last hope.

Not all the seed planted grows and not all that grows reaches maturity.

There is a deadly danger of drifting away from the gospel.