Cafeeine 2b, Hebrews 11:1, Revisited Pt 1
Channel: Brain Outy
Date: 2013-08-31

Part 1 of 3 on how to prove what Hebrews 11:1 really says, versus the wholly-incorrect translations. The first 'predicate' clause in the verse is shown, in this video.  Part 2 will focus on the second predicate clause, and Part 3 will focus on the third predicate clause, and the clever wording placements.  So write what's below on paper as shown (except for the --- marks).  Predicate clauses are in APPOSITION, to make a three-tier composition, which I call 'tic tac toe'.  Writer meters each clause at 7 syllables, Bible-Hebrew-Meter style (21 is a Temple-building number in the OT, for the # of years it took to build Jacob's family, and each of the 2 Temples).  This forms the theme of the chapter, which is why it's about the building of believers (Isaiah 53:10 contract), and why Church gets 'better things' (Attic kreittwn), hence Rapture precedes Trib (Heb 11:39-40).

So write the following:

It's about:
* pistis elpizomenwn ----------------- Word Confidently Believed
* Hupostasis pragmatwn -------------  Christ's Thinking On Trial
* Elegchos ou Blepomenwn ------------ Evidence Unseen

Notice on the left, how the words form full ideas VERTICALLY, not merely horizontally.  That tic tac toe style of parallelism and apposition was common in ancient languages.  Video will cover this in Part 3, but look at it starting in Part 1, on the sheet of paper.  Notice the tic tac toe style of parallelism, vertical and horizontal words each convey information more easily absorbed and remembered.

Finally, subjective and objective or even plenary genitives depend on verbal nouns/substantives.  Notice how clever, then, to say 'hupostasis' The Assurance, The Reality, The Beingness for The Christ, in the second clause.  Since the word is so prominent in Hebrews 1:3 and 3:14 (as you'll see in Pt2), the Greek reader would immediately smile, by the time he gets to Heb 11:1, which begins the most climactic chapter of the epistle.  Writer is focusing on the Godness of Christ, in 1:3;  on our being part of Christ, in 3:14;  hence our beingness, our reality, the substance of our lives, the substance of the Trial for us, is bound up with Him, Heb 11:1.  Elegant way to advance the explanation, wouldn't you say?