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# Connecting Statement:
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The author of Hebrews has been comparing the Christian life to a race.
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# You have not yet resisted or struggled against sin
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Here "sin" is spoken of as if it were a person whom someone fights in a battle. Alternate translation: "You have not yet had to endure attacks of sinners" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-personification]])
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# to the point of blood
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Resisting opposition so much that one dies for it is spoken of as if one reached a certain place where he would die. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
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# of blood
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Here "blood" refers to death. Alternate translation: "of death" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metonymy]])
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