... . F. Bruce (Hebrews, p. 350) quotes E. K. Simpson, who defines the word as meaning “so prone to hamper or trammel.” This has an appropriate significance in the present context. See Metzger, TCGNT, p. 675. Athletic imagery is used frequently in ... greater significance than the mountain alluded to in the preceding verses. Mount Zion is synonymous with Jerusalem in the OT (e.g., 2 Sam. 5:6f.; 2 Kings 19:21; Ps. 2:6; 9:11). Here it is further described as the heavenly Jerusalem, that eschatological expectation ...
... . F. Bruce (Hebrews, p. 350) quotes E. K. Simpson, who defines the word as meaning “so prone to hamper or trammel.” This has an appropriate significance in the present context. See Metzger, TCGNT, p. 675. Athletic imagery is used frequently in ... greater significance than the mountain alluded to in the preceding verses. Mount Zion is synonymous with Jerusalem in the OT (e.g., 2 Sam. 5:6f.; 2 Kings 19:21; Ps. 2:6; 9:11). Here it is further described as the heavenly Jerusalem, that eschatological expectation ...
