| | Scholar Robert G. Hoerber writes in reference to ὑπόστασις, while mentioning Hebrews 1:3: | | Scholar Robert G. Hoerber writes in reference to ὑπόστασις, while mentioning Hebrews 1:3: |
| − | <blockquote> The sense of "confidence" or "assurance" must be eliminated, since examples of this meaning cannot be found. Therefore this translation must be ruled out in Hebrews 11:1, although it has enjoyed much favor since Luther. According to Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich-Danker (p. 847) Hebrews 11:1 should be rendered: "In faith things hoped for become realized" or "In faith things hoped for become reality." So the renderings of Hebrews 11:1 by NRSV, NASB, NIV, Phillips, Moffatt, and Goodspeed miss the point, while NKJV and NEB come closer to the meaning of '''ύπόστασις''' in this verse.<ref>chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://library.mibckerala.org/lms_frame/eBook/On%20the%20Translation%20of%20Hebrews%20.1.11.pdf (emphasis added).</ref></blockquote> | + | <blockquote> The sense of "confidence" or "assurance" must be eliminated, since examples of this meaning cannot be found. Therefore this translation must be ruled out in Hebrews 11:1, although it has enjoyed much favor since Luther. According to Bauer-Arndt-Gingrich-Danker (p. 847) Hebrews 11:1 should be rendered: "In faith things hoped for become realized" or "In faith things hoped for become reality." So the renderings of Hebrews 11:1 by NRSV, NASB, NIV, Phillips, Moffatt, and Goodspeed miss the point, while NKJV and NEB come closer to the meaning of '''ύπόστασις''' in this verse.<ref name="H">chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://library.mibckerala.org/lms_frame/eBook/On%20the%20Translation%20of%20Hebrews%20.1.11.pdf (emphasis added).</ref></blockquote> |
| | + | <blockquote>If one follows the meaning of ύπόστασις in Hb. 1:3, then ύπόστασις έλπιζομένων bears a similar sense: it is the reality of the goods hoped for, which have by nature a transcendent quality. Primarily, then, έλεγχος and ύπόστασις do not describe faith but define the character of the transcendent future things, and do so in the same sense as Philo...and other representatives of Middle Platonism...speak of the reality and actuality of God and the world of Ideas.<ref name="H"/></blockquote> |