Hebrews 10:24-25

Heb. 10:24-25. And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works; Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner some (is); but exhorting (one another; and so the much more, as ye see the day approaching.

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10.25 and 27 vid last (?) p. p. 3 this mark # [25.26.27.28.29.] How such as are here spoken of committed the sin against the Holy Ghost he (?) notes in Chap 6:4, 5, 6 to NO. 227/ p. 865 ** ? (See these references in loc.) ** Hebrews 10:25; Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin willfully etc. - see Owen in Loc. p. 76, 77, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, at places marked in the margin.

An important uncited note on the Bible is Number 230:

[230] Hebrews 10:25-28. That the sin against the Holy Ghost is here intended is confirmed from the place in the Old Testament that seems to be referred to in the 28th and 29th verses; for the place that seems especially to be referred to is that in Numb. 15:30, 31, etc.; where God having been speaking of the sins of ignorance, that should be atoned for with sacrifice, tells what sins should not be atoned for with sacrifice in these words, "But the soul that doeth aught presumptuously, whether he be born in the land or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord, and that soul shall be cut off from among his people; because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment; that soul shall be utterly cut off:" and then in the words next following, there is an instance given of such a man so sinning presumptuously, viz. the sabbath-breaker, that gathered sticks on the sabbath, and how no sacrifice was accepted for him, but he perished without mercy by all the congregation's stoning him with stones. See margin of the Hebrew Bible. That the apostle here refers to this passage, seems evident by these things. The apostle is here speaking of a sin, for which there remains no more sacrifice, and in that in Numbers shows what sins were not to be atoned for by legal sacrifice. He speaks here of him that despised Moses's law, which agrees with those words in that place in Numbers, " Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken the commandment:" the reason given in that place why no sacrifice was to be accepted for him, so here the reason given why no more sacrifice remains, is that he sins willfully. In that place another reason why he should perish without accepting a sacrifice was, that he reproached the Lord; so here the reason given why there remained no sacrifice for this was, that he had insolently and maliciously reproached the Spirit of grace, for so the words in the original signify which are translated hath done despite to the Spirit of grace. (Vide Van Maestricht [sic], p. 363, Colossians 1.) Another reason there given is, that he had despised the word of the Lord; a reason here given is, that he had trampled on the Son of God, who is the Word of God. The man gathering sticks perished by the hand of all the congregation; the whole congregation were commanded to stone him with stones, to bear testimony that none had mercy on him, agreeably to God's direction in such a case, Deuteronomy 13:8-10. "Neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare him, but thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people, and thou shalt stone him with stones that he die." Thus the sabbath-breaker perished without mercy. And he died under the hand of two or three witnesses, as the apostle concluded from the law in such a case.

Hence we may gather the meaning of the word willfully in that place, That the apostle means by it in the same sense as the man in Numbers is said to sin presumptuously; the phrase in the original is with an high hand, or rather, a lifted up hand, as of one that is going to strike another. The same word is used of Jeroboam, 1 Kings 11:26-27. "He lift his hand against the king."

Heb. 10:26