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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 10:29 - 10:29
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sorer - Greek, “worse,” namely, “punishment” (literally, “vengeance”) than any mere temporal punishment of the body.
suppose ye - an appeal to the Hebrews’ reason and conscience.
thought worthy - by God at the judgment.
trodden under foot the Son of God - by “willful” apostasy. So he treads under foot God Himself who “glorified His Son as an high priest” (Heb 5:5; Heb 6:6).
an unholy thing - literally, “common,” as opposed to “sanctified.” No better than the blood of a common man, thus involving the consequence that Christ, in claiming to be God, was guilty of blasphemy, and so deserved to die!
wherewith he was sanctified - for Christ died even for him. “Sanctified,” in the fullest sense, belongs only to the saved elect. But in some sense it belongs also to those who have gone a far way in Christian experience, and yet fall away at last. The higher such a one’s past Christian experiences, the deeper his fall.
done despite unto - by repelling in fact: as “blasphemy” is despite in words (Mar 3:29). “Of the Jews who became Christians and relapsed to Judaism, we find from the history of Uriel Acosta, that they required a blasphemy against Christ. ‘They applied to Him epithets used against Molech the adulterous branch,’ etc.” [Tholuck].
the Spirit of grace - the Spirit that confers grace. “He who does not accept the benefit, insults Him who confers it. He hath made thee a son: wilt thou become a slave? He has come to take up His abode with thee; but thou art introducing evil into thyself” [Chrysostom]. “It is the curse of evil eternally to propagate evil: so, for him who profanes the Christ without him, and blasphemes the Christ within him, there is subjectively no renewal of a change of mind (Heb 6:6), and objectively no new sacrifice for sins” (Heb 10:26) [Tholuck].