SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:26
Porque si pecremos voluntariamente despus de haber recibido el conocimiento de la verdad, ya no queda ms sacrificio por el pecado,
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Hebrew 10:26
Verse 26. For if we sin wilfully] If we deliberately, for fear of persecution or from any other motive, renounce the profession of the Gospel and the Author of that Gospel, after having received the knowledge of the truth so as to be convinced that Jesus is the promised Messiah, and that he had sprinkled our hearts from an evil conscience; for such there remaineth no sacrifice for sins; for as the Jewish sacrifices are abolished, as appears by the declaration of God himself in the fortieth Psalm, and Jesus being now the only sacrifice which God will accept, those who reject him have none other; therefore their case must be utterly without remedy. This is the meaning of the apostle, and the case is that of a deliberate apostate - one who has utterly rejected Jesus Christ and his atonement, and renounced the whole Gospel system. It has nothing to do with backsliders in our common use of that term. A man may be overtaken in a fault, or he may deliberately go into sin, and yet neither renounce the Gospel, nor deny the Lord that bought him. His case is dreary and dangerous, but it is not hopeless; no case is hopeless but that of the deliberate apostate, who rejects the whole Gospel system, after having been saved by grace, or convinced of the truth of the Gospel. To him there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin; for there was but the ONE, Jesus, and this he has utterly rejected.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 26. For if we sin wilfully , etc..]] Which is not to be understood of a single act of sin, but rather of a course of sinning; nor of sins of infirmity through temptation, or even of grosser acts of sin, but of voluntary ones; and not of all voluntary ones, or in which the will is engaged and concerned, but of such which are done on set purpose, resolutely and obstinately; and not of immoral practices, but of corrupt principles, and acting according to them; it intends a total apostasy from the truth, against light and evidence, joined with obstinacy. After that we have received the knowledge of the truth ; either of Jesus Christ, or of the Scriptures, or of the Gospel, or of some particular doctrine, especially the principal one, salvation by Christ; of which there may be a notional knowledge, when there is no experimental knowledge; and which is received not into the heart, but into the head: and whereas the apostle speaks in the first person plural, we, this is used not so much with regard to himself, but others; that so what he delivered might come with greater weight upon them, and be more readily received by them; when they observed he entertained no hard thoughts or jealousies of them, which would greatly distress the minds of those that were truly gracious. Moreover, the apostles use this way of speaking, when they do not design themselves at all, but others, under the same visible profession of religion, and who belonged to the same community of believers; (see 1 Peter 4:3 Titus 3:3 Ephesians 2:3) compared with ( Acts 22:3 26:5 Philippians 3:6). Besides, these words are only hypothetical, and do not prove that true believers could, or should, or do sin in this manner: to which may be added, that true believers are manifestly distinguished from these persons, ( Hebrews 10:38,39), there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins ; meaning, not typical sacrifice; for though the daily sacrifice ought to have ceased at the death of Christ, yet it did not in fact until the destruction of Jerusalem; but the sacrifice of Christ, which will never be repeated; Christ will die no more; his blood will not be shed again, nor his sacrifice reiterated; nor will any other sacrifice be offered; there will be no other Saviour; there is no salvation in any other, nor any other name whereby we must be saved. These words have been wrongly made use of to prove that persons sinning after baptism are not to be restored to communion again upon repentance; and being understood of immoral actions wilfully committed, have given great distress to consciences burdened with the guilt of sin, committed after a profession of religion; but the true sense of the whole is this, that after men have embraced and professed the truths of the Gospel, and particularly this great truth of it, that Jesus Christ is the only Saviour of men by his blood and sacrifice; and yet after this, against all evidence, all the light and convictions of their own consciences, they wilfully deny this truth, and obstinately persist in the denial of it; seeing there is no more, no other sacrifice for sin, no other Saviour, nor any salvation in any other way, the case of these men must be desperate; there is no help for them, nor hope of them; for by this their sin they shut up against themselves, in principle and practice, the way of salvation, as follows.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 26-31 - The exhortations against apostacy and to perseverance, are urged by many strong reasons. The sin here mentioned is a total and fina falling away, when men, with a full and fixed will and resolution despise and reject Christ, the only Saviour; despise and resist the Spirit, the only Sanctifier; and despise and renounce the gospel, the only way of salvation, and the words of eternal life. Of thi destruction God gives some notorious sinners, while on earth, a fearfu foreboding in their consciences, with despair of being able to endur or to escape it. But what punishment can be sorer than to die withou mercy? We answer, to die by mercy, by the mercy and grace which the have despised. How dreadful is the case, when not only the justice of God, but his abused grace and mercy call for vengeance! All this doe not in the least mean that any souls who sorrow for sin will be shu out from mercy, or that any will be refused the benefit of Christ' sacrifice, who are willing to accept these blessings. Him that comet unto Christ, he will in no wise cast out.
Greek Textus Receptus
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Vincent's NT Word Studies
26. We sin willfully (ekousiwv amartanontwn hmwn). JEkousiwv willfully, only here and 1 Pet. v. 2. Comp. Philemon 14, kat' eJkousion of free will. See LXX, Num. xv. 3. The willful sin is the abandonment of Christianity for Judaism.
The knowledge (epignwsin). Only here in Hebrews. Very common in Paul. For the word, and the phrase knowledge of the truth, see on 1 Timothy ii. 4. The truth is the revelation through Christ.
There remaineth no more sacrifice for sins (ouketi peri amartiwn apoleipetai qusia). Of course not. For the Levitical sacrifices are abolished. It is Christ's sacrifice or none.
