29. sorer--Greek, "worse," namely, "punishment"
(literally, "vengeance") than any mere temporal punishment of the body.
suppose ye--an appeal to the Hebrews' reason and conscience.
thought worthy--by God at the judgment.
trodden under foot the Son of God--by "wilful" apostasy. So he
treads under foot God Himself who "glorified His Son as an high
priest"
(Heb 5:5; 6:6).
an unholy thing--literally, "common," as opposed to
"sanctified." No better than the blood of a common man, thus involving
the consequence that Christ, in claiming to be God, was guilty of
blasphemy, and so deserved to die!
wherewith he was sanctified--for Christ died even for him.
"Sanctified," in the fullest sense, belongs only to the saved elect.
But in some sense it belongs also to those who have gone a far way in
Christian experience, and yet fall away at last. The higher such a
one's past Christian experiences, the deeper his fall.
done despite unto--by repelling in fact: as "blasphemy"
is despite in words
(Mr 3:29).
"Of the Jews who became Christians and relapsed to Judaism, we find
from the history of Uriel Acosta, that they required a blasphemy
against Christ. 'They applied to Him epithets used against Molech the
adulterous branch,' &c." [THOLUCK].
the Spirit of grace--the Spirit that confers grace. "He who does
not accept the benefit, insults Him who confers it. He hath made thee a
son: wilt thou become a slave? He has come to take up His abode with
thee; but thou art introducing evil into thyself" [CHRYSOSTOM]. "It is the curse of evil eternally to
propagate evil: so, for him who profanes the Christ without him,
and blasphemes the Christ within him, there is subjectively no
renewal of a change of mind
(Heb 6:6),
and objectively no new sacrifice for sins"
(Heb 10:26)
[THOLUCK].
JFB.
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