V. 1.— Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip. Therefore, or, on this account, viz., the consideration of the surpassing dignity of the Son of God, by whom God had spoken in these last days. We ought to give the more earnest heed.— Here we are taught that our regard to what is spoken, ought to be in proportion to the dignity and authority of the speaker. Now, if attention is to be given to the Gospel in proportion to the dignity of its author, who is no less a personage than the Son of God, with what solemn reverence ought we to listen to His words! They are not only to be at first received, but to be kept in memory. The persons addressed had already received the Gospel, but they were to continue in faith and obedience to the end of their lives. Matthew 24:13. To the things which we have heard.— Believers ought diligently to attend to whatever the Lord Jesus has said in His Word. The Gospel itself is the great truth, the belief of which is salvation, however great men’ s ignorance in other respects may be; yet nothing which God has said is to be overlooked, but everything is to be attended to as far as it is understood. All things said by Jesus are not of equal importance, but all things are important, and to be received and obeyed at every hazard and every loss. The consideration that the Lord forgives the ignorance of his people ought never to be alleged in justification of inattention to whatever he hath spoken, or of the neglect of the least of his commandments. It may also be observed that we are to give heed to the things that we have heard, that is, the things recorded in the Scriptures. Christians have nothing to learn from other sources. They are not to employ speculations of their own to eke out their information with respect to Divine things, far less are they to receive the doctrines and commandments of men. The word which I have spoken, says the Lord, it shall judge you. The word rendered “ let slip,” literally signifies “ to run out,” as a leaky vessel, which strikingly corresponds with our proneness gradually and insensibly to lose sight of one or another part of the doctrine of Christ. It is evidently a warning not to depart from the faith.