This admonition is strategically positioned exactly between two portions of text of fourteen verses each, describing the superior position of the Son above the angels (1:1–14) and the temporarily inferior position of the Son below the angels (2:5–18). By organizing it this way the author ensures that this warning is placed precisely in the centre of 1:1—2:18. (W.G. Übelacker1)2
1 Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.