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Highlights in Hebrews (with Roger Kirby) Part 6 - Hebrews 2:10 Jesus our pioneer 1 In bringing many sons and daughters to glory, it was fitting that God, for whom and through whom everything exists, should make the pioneer of their salvation perfect through what he suffered. Our main emphasis here is going to be on that word ‘pioneer’ but before we go there here is another thought from this verse. Have you fully realised that you are a brother or a sister of the Lord of Creation? He is your elder brother. WOW and triple WOW! The word translated ‘pioneer’ in the latest NIV or ‘author’ in the older one is quite tricky to get the full meaning of. Authors write down something that has not been written before; pioneers hack a new way through the jungle where no one has been before. I like to think of the word ‘pathfinder’ as a possible translation although I can’t find it in any version. A ‘pathfinder’ is a member of a unit of the British army whose dangerous job it is to go ahead of the main force; to id