'Original' in the Bible
just as the original eyewitnesses and servants of the word handed them down to us.
For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much easier will it be to graft these who are the natural branches back into [the original parent stock of] their own olive tree?
So then, was I indecisive or capricious when I was [originally] planning this? Or the things I plan, do I plan in a self-serving way like a worldly man, ready to say, “Yes, yes” and “No, no” [at the same time]?
Among them all of us also formerly passed our lives, governed by the inclinations of our lower natures, indulging the cravings of those natures and of our own thoughts, and were in our original state deserving of anger like all others.
to put away, in regard to your former mode of life, your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits its misleading impulses,
and will therefore receive condemnation because they have renounced their original pledge.
because we are the Messiah's partners only if we hold on to our original confidence to the end.
And angels who had not kept their own original state, but had abandoned their own dwelling, he keeps in eternal chains under gloomy darkness, to the judgment of the great day;