Hebrews 6:2,3

Heb. 6:2-3. Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment. And this will we do, if God permit

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3. and this will we do if God permit] And this the apostle actually proceeds to do in the beginning of Heb. 7, where he resumes his subject of Christ's high priesthood after the order of Melchisedeck which he broke off from in the 11 v. of the foregoing chap. because of weakness in knowledge and all that is from this verse to the last verse of the chapter comes in by way of digression.

In other words, Edwards sees this whole major discussion of the unpardonable sin - to which he devotes considerable attention himself - as a temporary apostolic "digression" from doctrinal exposition. The exposition will be resumed in Hebrews chapter 7 to the end of the epistle.

Meanwhile the apostle gives his attention to those who are constantly "laying again the foundation" - the fundamentals of the faith. One cannot help thinking of the contemporary expression "stick-in-the-mud" fundamentalist. These "fundamentalists" enjoyed spinning their wheels. The author of Hebrews was a fundamentalist also, agreeing with these fundamentals of the faith but insisting, according to Jonathan Edwards, that believers must move ahead. First we must see what happens when a fundamentalist becomes a stick-in-the-mud fundamentalist.

Edwards tends to think and treat of the next three verses as a unity, and we will present them as such with his comments following.