Hebrews 2:1-4, Neglecting Salvation and the LXX

On Heb. 2:1-4, Albert Barnes said,

Yet the mass of men live in neglect of it (salvation).  It is not that they are professedly Atheists, or Deists, or that they are immoral or profane; it is not that they oppose it, and ridicule it, and despise it; it is that they simply neglect it.  They pass it by.  They attend to other things.  They are busy with their pleasures, or in their counting-houses, in their workshops, or on their farms; they are engaged in politics, or in bookmaking, and they neglect religion now as a thing of small importance – proposing to attend to it hereafter, as if they acted on the principle that everything else was to be attended to before religion.

Students of Hebrews must be aware that the human author was led by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit to use the Septuagint translation. 

The Septuagint was a Greek translation of the Hebrew OT.  It was believed to be translated in Egypt in the 3rd and 2nd centuries before Christ.  It was believed to be the work of 70/72 translators, thus the name Septuagint using the Greek term.  The abbreviation is LXX, Roman numerals for 70.  It was originally done to accommodate Jews who were spread across the Greek world.  It became the translation of choice for the Early Church, who lived in the Greek world and who often did not know Hebrew.  (Paul was an exception, having been schooled in Judaism.)  The writer of Hebrews used it exclusively.  The Dead Sea scrolls attests to its accuracy, as it does to the accuracy of the Hebrew text.  There are, as with all translations, differences between the two.  Heb. 1:6 is taken from Deut. 32:43. If you look in your English translation the phrase “Let the angels of God worship Him” does not appear in Deut.  It is because your translation is based on the Hebrew text.  In Hebrews, as in all the Bible, we trust every word because the Holy Spirit is the Divine Author.  If the human author used the Septuagint, we believe it was by the leading of the Spirit.