G2274–ἡσσάομαι–hēssaomai

In what respect, therefore, have you been worse dealt with than other Churches, except that I myself never hung as a dead weight upon you? Forgive the injustice I thus did you!

ἡσσώθητε hēssōthēte “you were inferior”

And they promise them freedom, although they are themselves the slaves of what is corrupt. For a man is the slave of any one by whom he has been worsted in fight.

ἥττηται, hēttētai “has been subdued,”

For if, after escaping from the pollutions of the world through a full knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, people are once more entangled in these pollutions and are overcome, their last state has become worse than their first.

ἡττῶνται, hēttōntai “they are subdued,”