26 For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,



Ver. 26. For if we sin wilfully] Against the grace of the gospel, despising and despiting it, as those that fall into the unpardonable sin. Some good souls by mistakes of this text have been much afflicted, as Master John Glover. Other odious apostates have utterly despaired. Others of the ancients have unworthily cashiered this Epistle out of the canon, because of this passage.



There remaineth no more sacrifice] For sins against the law, though against knowledge there was an atonement, Lev_6:1, though it were for perjury; but for this sin against the gospel, that repudiates the remedy, there is no sacrifice; abused mercy turns into fury.