Hebrews 6:9

9. But Passing to commendation and encouragement. At this point commences a gradual return, and, we might say, cheering ascent to Melchizedek, (Hebrews 6:20,) from whom we abruptly parted at Hebrews 5:10. You is here emphatic. Though there is a class of apostates, (as Hebrews 6:4-8,) you are not embraced within it.

Better things Rather, the better of the two things contrasted in Hebrews 6:7-8; namely, the perseverers and the apostates.

Thus speak In terms of almost contempt, in Hebrews 5:1 to Hebrews 6:2, and in terrible warnings, in Hebrews 6:3-8. This rebuke and this warning are not the result of malign feeling, but of solicitude for those I love, and earnest hope that they will persevere to the end. But this is no assurance that others are not apostates, nor an infallible assurance that Paul’s readers will not become so.