…how will we escape if we neglect so great a salvation? – Hebrews 2:3

How great is so great?

This phrase so great is one Greek word. Tēlikoutos if you care. It’s not a very common word in the New Testament, only four uses in the whole book.

The one that caught my eye comes from the book of Revelations.

And there were flashes of lightning and sounds and peals of thunder; and there was a great earthquake, such as there had not been since man came to be upon the earth, so great an earthquake was it, and so mighty. – Revelation 16:18.

This so great is used for stuff that has no basis for comparison. If you can wrap your mind around this, it can’t be compared because any comparison would dimmish the greatness of it. If I said our salvation greater than the way Chesley Sullenberger landed that plane on the Hudson, or greater than the way God saved Israel from their Egyptian captors, I bring it down to a lower standard.

You might be tempted to call it the greatest salvation, but again greatest implies comparison.

So great is our salvation that it must not be compared. All comparison simply diminishes the greatness of our so great salvation.

So great!

Thanks for stopping by today

Shine where you’re screwed in.

Ben