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Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Hebrews 10:19-39

I. Here the apostle sets forth the dignities of the gospel state. It is fit that believers should know the honours and privileges that Christ has procured for them, that, while they take the comfort, they may give him the glory of all. The privileges are, 1. Boldness to enter into the holiest. They have access to God, light to direct them, liberty of spirit and of speech to conform to the direction; they have a right to the privilege and a readiness for it, assistance to use and improve it and... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Hebrews 10:26-31

10:26-31 For, if we deliberately sin after we have received full knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sin is left. All that we can expect is to wait in terror for judgment and for that flaming wrath which will consume the adversaries of God. Anyone who regards the law of Moses as a dead letter dies without pity on the evidence of two or three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you think, that man will be deemed worthy who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, who has failed to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Hebrews 10:26

For if we sin wilfully ,.... Which is not to be understood of a single act of sin, but rather of a course of sinning; nor of sins of infirmity through temptation, or even of grosser acts of sin, but of voluntary ones; and not of all voluntary ones, or in which the will is engaged and concerned, but of such which are done on set purpose, resolutely and obstinately; and not of immoral practices, but of corrupt principles, and acting according to them; it intends a total apostasy from the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:26

For if we sin wilfully - If we deliberately, for fear of persecution or from any other motive, renounce the profession of the Gospel and the Author of that Gospel, after having received the knowledge of the truth so as to be convinced that Jesus is the promised Messiah, and that he had sprinkled our hearts from an evil conscience; for such there remaineth no sacrifice for sins; for as the Jewish sacrifices are abolished, as appears by the declaration of God himself in the fortieth Psalm, and... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Hebrews 10:26

Verse 26 26.For if we sin willfully, or voluntarily etc. He shows how severe a vengeance of God awaits all those who fall away from the grace of Christ; for being without that one true salvation, they are now as it were given up to an inevitable destruction. With this testimony Novatus and his sect formerly armed themselves, in order to take away the hope of pardon from all indiscriminately who had fallen after baptism. They who were not able to refute his calumny chose rather to deny the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 10:19-39

Hebrews 10:19-39 . HORTATORY PORTION OF THE EPISTLE . The great doctrine of Christ's eternal priesthood having been led up to, established by argument, and at length fully expounded, it remains only to press the practical result of a belief in it in alternate tones of encouragement and of warning. We have seen that, even in the earlier chapters, hortatory passages were frequently interposed, showing the purpose all along in the writer's mind. In the central and deepest part of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 10:26-27

For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins, but a certain fearful looking for ( ἐκδοξὴ , used here only; but ἐκδέξομαι is frequent in the New Testament in sense of "expect;" e.g. supra, Hebrews 10:13 . Hence there seems no good ground for disputing, with Afford, the usual rendering, "expectation") of judgment, and fiery indignation ( πυρός ζῆλος ), which shall devour the adversaries. The... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 10:26-29

The darkest sin and the most dreadful doom. "For if we sin willfully after that we have received," etc. These solemn words set before us— I. A SIN OF THE GREATEST ENORMITY . TO obtain a correct view of the dark sin which is here depicted, let us notice: 1. The spiritual experience which preceded the sin . Two clauses of our text set forth a personal experience of genuine religion. "After that we have received the knowledge of the truth." The word which is translated... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 10:26-31

The guilt and doom of apostasy. This is a terrible passage even to read. It is fitted to fill with alarm the hearts of those who refuse to "draw near" to God, or confess his Name, or hold communion with his people. It is introduced here, like the similar warning in Hebrews 6:4-8 , as a motive to Christian steadfastness. I. THE GUILT OF APOSTASY . This tremendous sin is described: 1. Generally. (Verse 26) The context shows that to "sin willfully" refers neither to any... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Hebrews 10:26-32

Solemn warning as to the fearful consequences of apostasy. read more

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