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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Hebrews 6 In this chapter the apostle exhorts the believing Hebrews not to rest in the rudiments of the Christian religion they had learned; and much less to lay them again in the foundation after the Jewish manner, of which he instances in six particulars; but to seek after a perfect knowledge of evangelic truths, which, under a...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ,.... The Gospel is the doctrine of Christ, and is so called, because Christ, as God, is the author of it; as Mediator, he received it from his Father; as man, he was the preacher of it; and he is also the sum and substance of it: the principles of this doctrine are either the easier parts...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
In this chapter the apostle proceeds to persuade the Hebrews to make a better proficiency in religion than they had done, as the best way to prevent apostasy, the dreadful nature and consequences of which sin he sets forth in a serious manner (ver. 1-8), and then expresses his good hopes concerning them, that they would persevere in faith and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore leaving the principles — The rudiments, the elementary truths, — Heb_6:1. Of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; — Let us go from the school to the university, let us have done with our first spelling-books, and advance into the higher classics of the kingdom. Heb_6:1. Not laying again the foundation of repentance from...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Of the doctrine of baptisms,.... Some read this divisively, "baptism and doctrine", as the Ethiopic version; as if the one respected the ordinance of baptism, and the other the ministry of the word; but it is best to read them conjunctively: and by which most understand the Gospel ordinance of water baptism, so called by a change of number, the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. Let us take these things for granted, and never dispute about them any more, but go on to still higher matters.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And this will we do, if God permit. That is, leave the rites and ceremonies of the law, which were the rudiments, or first principles of the Gospel, and go on to a more perfect knowledge of Gospel truths; and, not lay again as the foundation of the ministry, or insist upon them as if they were the main things, even the above articles of the Jewish...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And this will we do, if God permit. We must keep on going forward; there is no such thing in the Christian life as standing still, and we dare not turn back.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened,.... The Syriac and Ethiopic versions render it, "baptized"; and the word is thought to be so used in Hebrews 10:32. And indeed baptism was called very early "illumination" by the ancients, as by Justin Martyr (i), and Clemens Alexandrinus (k), because only enlightened persons were the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost, and have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, — Note that Paul does not say, “If they shall fall;” but, “If they shall fall away,” — if the religion which...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And have tasted the good word of God,.... Not the Lord Jesus Christ, the essential Word of God, who seems to be intended before by the heavenly gift; but rather, either the Scriptures of truth in general, which are the word of God, endited by him, and contain his mind and will; which he makes use of for conviction, conversion, instruction, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
If they shall fall away,.... This is not supposed of true believers, as appears from Hebrews 6:9 nor is it to be supposed of them that they may fall totally and finally; they may indeed fall, not only into afflictions and temptations, but into sin; and from a lively and comfortable exercise of grace, and from a degree of steadfastness in the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
To renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame. If all the processes of grace fail in the case of any professors, what is to be done with them? If the grace of God does not enable them to overcome the world, — if the blood of Christ does not purge them from sin, what more...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it,.... Here the apostle illustrates what he had before been speaking of, by a simile taken from the earth, to which men in general answer, who are of the earth; earthy and unregenerate men and carnal professors are of earthly minds; they are like the earth when it was rude and without...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God: but that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned. If, after having ploughed this ground, and sown it, and after it has been watered by...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But that which beareth thorns and briers,.... To which wicked men answer; who are unfruitful and unprofitable, and are hurtful, pricking and grieving, by their wicked lives and conversations, by their bitter and reproachful words, and by their violent and cruel persecutions; and particularly carnal professors, and especially apostates, such as...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you,.... The apostle addresses the believing Hebrews, as "beloved"; being beloved by the Lord, not as the descendants of Abraham, but as the elect of God, and so as loved with an everlasting love; and which might be known to themselves, by its being shed abroad in their hearts, and by their being...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But, beloved, we are persuaded better thing of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak. Harsh as the apostle’s words may seem, they are not meant for you who are really believers in Christ, and in whom the Holy Spirit has wrought a complete change of heart and life; Paul is not speaking of such as you.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For God is not unrighteous,.... He is just and true, righteous in all his ways and works; there is no unrighteousness nor unfaithfulness in him; and this the apostle makes a reason of his strong persuasion of better things concerning the believing Hebrews; because he was well satisfied of the good work upon them, and he was assured that God was...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister. If you have proved by your works that the grace of God is within you, God will not forget you; he will not leave you, he will not cast you away. You know the contrast in the speech...