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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Hebrews 6:8 - 6:8
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that which - rather as Greek (no article), “But if it (the ‘land,’ Heb 6:7) bear”; not so favorable a word as “bringeth forth,” Heb 6:7, said of the good soil.
briers - Greek, “thistles.”
rejected - after having been tested; so the Greek implies. Reprobate ... rejected by the Lord.
nigh unto cursing - on the verge of being given up to its own barrenness by the just curse of God. This “nigh” softens the severity of the previous “It is impossible,” etc. (Heb 6:4, Heb 6:6). The ground is not yet actually cursed.
whose - “of which (land) the end is unto burning,” namely, with the consuming fire of the last judgment; as the land of Sodom was given to “brimstone, salt, and burning” (Deu 29:23); so as to the ungodly (Mat 3:10, Mat 3:12; Mat 7:19; Mat 13:30; Joh 15:6; 2Pe 3:10). Jerusalem, which had so resisted the grace of Christ, was then nigh unto cursing, and in a few years was burned. Compare Mat 22:7, “burned up their city” an earnest of a like fate to all willful abusers of God’s grace (Heb 10:26, Heb 10:27).