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inserted new developed section - Epistle to the Hebrews: Apostasy: major Biblical commentaries
*The catholic Church has an altar from which the Jews had no right to eat and from which Catholics claim to partake of the body and blood and divinity of the Lord (Hebrews 13:10; 1 Corinthians 10:16-18 and 11:23-30; 2 Peter 1:3-4; John 6:52-58)
*The catholic Church has an altar from which the Jews had no right to eat and from which Catholics claim to partake of the body and blood and divinity of the Lord (Hebrews 13:10; 1 Corinthians 10:16-18 and 11:23-30; 2 Peter 1:3-4; John 6:52-58)
*The catholic Church condemns apostasy. (John 15:6; Hebrews 6:4-6 and 10:23-31; Jude 5-25)
*The catholic Church condemns apostasy. (John 15:6; Hebrews 6:4-6 and 10:23-31; Jude 5-25)
== ''Epistle to the Hebrews'': Apostasy: major Biblical commentaries ==
The [[Epistle to the Hebrews]] is an empassioned [[treatise]] on the superiority of [[Christianity]] compared to [[Judaism]], of [[the Gospel]] of [[Jesus Christ|Christ]] compared to [[Torah|the Law]] of [[Moses]]. All major biblical scholars and expositors over the centuries concur in their understanding that the leading object of the author of this work is to guard those to whom it was addressed against the deadly danger of provoking the wrath of the Lord by apostasy from Christianity, by falling away from Christ and turning back to Judaism.<ref>See Topical Bible "provocation" (of God) at https://biblehub.com/topical/p/provocation.htm </ref>
See the following representative direct quotes in italics from multiple [[Exegesis|expository commentaries]] on ''apostasy from Christ'', verse by verse, in '''Hebrews''' (explicitly mentioned 387 times):<ref>See general index to multiple commentaries on every verse in ''Hebrews'' at biblehub.com site at http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/ —For each of the 82 verses linked here the ''key word search on-page is'': "aposta"—''apostasy, apostacy, apostate, apostates, apostatize, apostatizing''. <br> For an amplified understanding of the broader meaning of "apostasy" see also Topical Bible "apostasy" at https://biblehub.com/topical/a/apostasy.htm ''and'' Topical Bible "apostacy" at http://biblehub.net/searchtopical.php?q=apostacy</ref>
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/1-1.htm 1:1] —mentioned twice
::''he warns them of the danger of apostasy, to which Jewish converts were tempted, when they saw Christians persecuted, while Judaism was tolerated by the Roman authorities''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/2-1.htm 2:1] —mentioned 3 times
::''the great guilt of disobeying, neglecting, or apostatizing''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/2-2.htm 2:2] —mentioned once
::''the neglecters of this salvation in general, and apostates, or back-sliders, in particular''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/2-3.htm 2:3] —mentioned twice
::''so to neglect them as to end in apostacy''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/2-10.htm 2:10] —mentioned once
::''An answer to the Jews, and Hebrew Christians, whosoever, through impatience at the delay in the promised advent of Christ's glory, were in danger of apostasy, stumbling at Christ crucified.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/2-15.htm 2:15] —mentioned once
::''He writes throughout as one who never forgets their need of sympathetic help, and who knows well the power of the motives, the allurements and the threats, employed to lead them into apostasy.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/3-1.htm 3:1] —mentioned twice
::''The purpose of the writer in this passage, as in the whole Epistle, is to encourage his readers in their allegiance to Christ and to save them from apostacy by exhibiting Christ as the final mediator.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/3-2.htm 3:2] —mentioned 3 times
::''urges on them the necessity of considering "his fidelity" in order to keep "them" from the danger of apostasy. A leading object of this Epistle was to preserve those whom he had addressed from apostatizing from God amidst the temptations and trials to which they were exposed.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/3-3.htm 3:3] —mentioned once
::''Eagerly as the writer is pressing forwards to develop his original and central conception of Christ as our Eternal High Priest, he yet has to pause to prove His superiority over Moses, because the Jews had begun to elevate Moses into a position of almost supernatural grandeur which would have its effect on the imaginations of wavering and almost apostatising converts.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/3-6.htm 3:6] —mentioned twice
::''A leading object of this Epistle is to guard those to whom it was addressed against the danger of apostasy.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/3-7.htm 3:7] —mentioned 3 times
::''We should regard the solemn warnings in the Old Testament against sin, and against the danger of apostasy, as addressed by the Holy Spirit to us. They are as applicable to us as they were to those to whom they were at first addressed; and we need all the influence of such appeals, to keep us from apostasy as much as they did.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/3-9.htm 3:9] —mentioned once
::''a discontented quarrel with, and scrutiny of, Christ the Redeemer, that if he would not serve their lust, they would deny him, and apostatize from him, and return to Egypt; notwithstanding their having sufficient proof of him, yet they would contend with him''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/3-12.htm 3:12] —mentioned 30 times
::''The very point the writer wishes to make is just this: Remember that to apostatize from Christ in whom you have found God, is to apostatize from God.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/3-13.htm 3:13] —mentioned 6 times
::''to '''exhort'''; which, as a private duty, is an earnest, frequent calling on, stirring up, or persuading, encouraging to perseverance in the Christian religion, and to put away all heart evil, especially unbelief, which traineth to apostacy''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/3-15.htm 3:15] —mentioned once
::'''''To-day''', if you will believe what God speaketh to you by him, and hath recorded in his word concerning his being the Messiah, and render not yourselves deaf to God’s voice, or obdurate through unbelief, as your forefathers did, when their unbelief and hardness of heart imbittered God’s Spirit against them, because acting in it against their solemn vows and engagements to him, so as to apostatize from him. ''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/3-16.htm 3:16] —mentioned 4 times
::''The writer would say, "My warning against apostasy is not superfluous or irrelevant: for, consider: who were they that provoked God?''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/3-17.htm 3:17] —mentioned once
::τοῖς ἁμαρτήσασιν] ''those that had sinned, namely, by unbelief and apostasy from God.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/3-18.htm 3:18] —mentioned 3 times
::''To prevent these Hebrews falling, the Spirit repeats the direful oath of God to apostates in the wilderness''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/4-1.htm 4:1] —mentioned once
::''he proceeds to describe the case of hardened and defiant apostates''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/4-11.htm 4:11] —mentioned twice
::'' The particle ''en'' may be read, ''into'', and then it implies, lest any of you prove rebels and apostates.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/4-13.htm 4:13] —mentioned 3 times
::''No thought of unbelief or disobedience escapes His eye: the first beginnings of apostasy are manifest before Him.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/4-14.htm 4:14] —mentioned 3 times
::''This is the drift and scope of the Epistle - to show that Christians should hold fast their profession, and not apostatize.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/5-11.htm 5:11] —mentioned once
::''and with warning admonition points out that those who have already had experience of the rich blessing of Christianity, and nevertheless apostatize from the same, let slip beyond the possibility of recall the Christian salvation''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/5-12.htm 5:12] —mentioned once
::''This agrees well with the general strain of the Epistle, which is to preserve them from the danger of apostasy.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/6-1.htm 6:1] —mentioned 8 times
::''indeed, the connection between immaturity of apprehension of Christian truth and the danger of apostasy is a thought present throughout the Epistle.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/6-2.htm 6:2] —mentioned twice
::''Nor does it prove that any one who is made a new creature in Christ, ever becomes a final apostate from him.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/6-3.htm 6:3] —mentioned twice
::''We should ourselves beware, and caution others, of every approach near to a gulf so awful as apostacy''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/6-4.htm 6:4] —mentioned 18 times
::''I shall endeavor, as well as I may be able, to state the true meaning of the passage by an examination of the words and phrases in detail, observing here, in general, that it seems to me that it refers to true Christians; that the object is to keep them from apostasy, and that it teaches that if they should apostatize, it would be impossible to renew them again or to save them.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/6-5.htm 6:5] —mentioned twice
::''the falling away here mentioned, is an open and avowed renouncing of Christ, from enmity of heart against him, his cause, and people, by men approving in their minds the deeds of his murderers, and all this after they have received the knowledge of the truth, and tasted some of its comforts.''
::''...and caution others, of every approach near to a gulf so awful as apostacy; yet in doing this we should keep close to the word of God, and be careful not to wound and terrify the weak, or discourage the fallen and penitent.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/6-6.htm 6:6] —mentioned 35 times
::''The word rendered "fall away" means properly "to fall near by anyone;" "to fall in with or meet;" and thus to fall aside from, to swerve or deviate from; and here means undoubtedly to "apostatize from," and implies an entire renunciation of Christianity, or a going back to a state of Judaism, paganism, or sin.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/6-7.htm 6:7] —mentioned 9 times
::''The design is to show that a Christian who makes proper use of the means of growing in grace which God bestows upon him, and who does not apostatize, meets with the divine favor and approbation.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/6-8.htm 6:8] —mentioned 11 times
::''the end of briers and thorns is the fire, they are to be burnt up by it; and this will be the final issue with apostates, to be destroyed by a Christ whom they have rejected, with eternal fire''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/6-9.htm 6:9] —mentioned 13 times
::''The most fruitful Christians need to be warned against possible barrenness and apostasy.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/6-10.htm 6:10] —mentioned once
::''the things that accompany salvation, are better things than ever any dissembler or apostate enjoyed.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/6-12.htm 6:12] —mentioned once
::''By diligent and strenuous effort only could they secure themselves from the danger of apostasy.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/6-15.htm 6:15] —mentioned once
::''It would furnish ample encouragement to the Christians to whom he wrote, to persevere in their course, and to avoid the dangers of apostasy.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/6-20.htm 6:20] —mentioned 5 times
::''To illustrate this fact, was the object for which this discussion was introduced, and which had been interrupted by the remarks occurring in this chapter on the danger of apostasy.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/7-2.htm 7:2] —mentioned once
::''Melchisedec is a sample of how God preserves, amidst general apostasy, an elect remnant.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/7-12.htm 7:12] —mentioned once
::''For when Christ, the gospel High Priest, had in his person and work perfected all of it in heaven, he roots out that order of priesthood, abolisheth the law, scatters the people which would cleave to it; demolisheth the temple and city to which he confined the administration, so as all designs and endeavours of Jews, or of apostate Christhins, to repair, or to restore it, have been ineffectual to this day.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/8-9.htm 8:9] —mentioned once
::''these unbelieving Hebrews, under that administration of the covenant, continued not faithful to it, as by their own word and consent they bound themselves to it, but apostatized from God and his truth''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/8-10.htm 8:10] —mentioned once
::''The evidence of this letter itself shows that, whilst the writer regarded it as a distinctive characteristic of the gospel, that by it men’s wills were stamped with a delight in the law of God, and a transcript thereof, he still regarded these wills as unstable, as capable of losing the sharp lettering, of having the writing of God obliterated, and still regarded it as possible that there should be apostasy and departure.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/9-27.htm 9:27] —mentioned once
::''It was according to God’s decreed and published statute of men’s but once dying; for God the Supreme Lord, Governor, and Judge of them, set, constituted, and appointed by an unalterable and irrevocable decree, as Lawgiver, and sentence, as Judge, to all of the sinful human race, the corrupt seed of apostate Adam, their grand representative, whom God threatened with this penalty upon his sinning and transgressing his law''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/9-28.htm 9:28] —mentioned once
::''What a sin then was it, and what a folly, to look back with apostatising glances at the shadows of a petty Levitism while Christ the Mediator of a New, of a better, of a final Dispensation—Christ whose blood had a real and no mere symbolic efficacy had died once for all, and Alone for all, as the sinless Son of God to obtain for us an eternal redemption, and to return for our salvation as the Everlasting Victor over sin and death!''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-1.htm 10:1] —mentioned once
::'' Wherefore we ought to draw near the Holiest in firm faith and love; fearful of the awful results of apostasy; looking for the recompense to be given at Christ's coming.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-18.htm 10:18] —mentioned once
::''with earnest exhortation, encouragement to perseverance alternating with solemn warning against apostasy.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-23.htm 10:23] —mentioned once
::''It is evident that those whom he wrote were suffering persecution Hebrews 12, and that there was great danger that they would apostatize.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-25.htm 10:25] —mentioned 14 times
::''In the neglect of public worship the writer saw the dangerous germ of apostasy.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-26.htm 10:26] —mentioned 27 times
::''“As the apostle, in the former part of the epistle, had proved that the sacrifices of the law were all abolished, and that the only sacrifice for sin remaining was the sacrifice of Christ, it followed that apostates, who wilfully renounced the benefit of that sacrifice, had no sacrifice for sin whatever remaining to them.”''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-27.htm 10:27] —mentioned 6 times
::''All that is left for willing apostates when they have turned their backs on the sole means of grace is “some fearful expectance of a judgment.”''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-28.htm 10:28] —mentioned 14 times
::''Apostasy from the Mosaic law itself is punishable with death; how much greater thus must be the punishment of him who, by apostasy from Christ, has treated with contumely the Son of God, of whose redeeming benefits he has already had experience!''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-29.htm 10:29] —mentioned 30 times
::''the person, the apostate himself, who was sanctified or separated from others by a visible profession of religion; having given himself up to a church, to walk with it in the ordinances of the Gospel; and having submitted to baptism, and partook of the Lord's supper, and drank of the cup, "the blood of the New Testament", or "covenant": though he did not spiritually discern the body and blood of Christ in the ordinance, but counted the bread and wine, the symbols of them, as common things'' <br> ...ὁ καταπατήσας] ''who has trodden under foot, as though it were a contemptible, useless thing.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-30.htm 10:30] —mentioned 9 times
::''If any should apostatize in the manner here referred to by the apostle, they would, says he, be guilty of great and unparalleled wickedness, and would have the certainty that they must meet the wrath of God.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-31.htm 10:31] —mentioned 5 times
::''The sin here mentioned is a total and final 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.'' <br> ''...The punishment of these apostates is further aggravated from the inflicter of it, the knowledge of which should make them tremble; the thoughts of it might affect them, as the hand-writing on the wall did Belshazzar, Daniel 5:6.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-32.htm 10:32] —mentioned 5 times
::''at the time when the apostle wrote this Epistle they were suffering some severe trials, in which they were in great danger of apostatizing from their religion.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-35.htm 10:35] —mentioned once
::''denieth all degrees of apostacy, from secret undervaluing to an utter renouncing, not to slight, despise, or reject; they had endured already so much as might steel and fortify them against what remained, and implieth the bold, resolute, and courageous retention, Ephesians 6:10,16, of the boldness of their confession of the Christian faith.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-37.htm 10:37] —mentioned once
::''the apostates, on the other hand, shall be overtaken by destruction.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-38.htm 10:38] —mentioned 7 times
::''the apostle urges on them the importance of perseverance, and the guilt and danger of apostasy from the Christian faith.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/10-39.htm 10:39] —mentioned 12 times
::''What could be a more effectual means than the assurance that if a Christian should apostatize "he must inevitably perish forever?"''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/11-25.htm 11:25] —mentioned 3 times
::''By'' '''ἁμαρτία''' ''is meant apostasy from God, by the abandoning of the communion with the people of God.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/11-36.htm 11:36] —mentioned once
::''The word ἐπειράσ θησαν if genuine, may possibly have been suggested by alliteration, and by thought of the temptations to apostatize prominent in the account both of Eleazar and of the seven sons''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/11-37.htm 11:37] —mentioned twice
::''in the strong effort to tempt the last and youngest of the seven brother-martyrs to apostatise in 2 Maccabees 7.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/11-40.htm 11:40] —mentioned once
::''This, therefore, accords entirely with the argument which the apostle is pursuing - which is, to show that the Christians whom he addressed should not apostatize from their religion.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-1.htm 12:1] —mentioned twice
::''sin in general, with, however, special reference to "apostasy," against which he had already warned them, as one to which they might gradually be seduced; the besetting sin of the Hebrews, UNBELIEF.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-4.htm 12:4] —mentioned 7 times
::''The apostle exhorts them to strive manfully and perseveringly against sin in every form, and especially against the sin of apostasy.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-13.htm 12:13] —mentioned twice
::''lest being lame or halting in their minds between Judaism and Christianity, because of the violent persecution of them by their infidel brethren, they should be turned aside out of God’s way, erring, and deviating from the truth of the gospel; but that they be restored to it, so as no sufferings upon that account, under God’s hand, might make them suppress the truth, or expose them to apostacy, or to walk as stumbling-blocks to others, and wounding their own souls''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-15.htm 12:15] —mentioned 8 times
::''the apostasy to which the Hebrew Christians were tempted is compared with the sin committed by those who by idolatry fell away from God’s ancient covenant; and as one idol-worshipper in a community might bring into it a root of bitter poison, so one apostate from the Christian faith would bring trouble and defilement on the Church.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-17.htm 12:17] —mentioned 5 times
::''This passage, therefore, is in accordance with the doctrine more than once stated before in this Epistle, that if a Christian should really apostatize it would be impossible that he should be saved''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-18.htm 12:18] —mentioned 6 times
::''As if he had said, Take heed of apostatizing from Christianity to Judaism again, because of the great privileges you enjoy by the gospel above what your fathers enjoyed by the law: which privileges contain a strong reason why you should attend to these exhortations and cautions''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-19.htm 12:19] —mentioned once
::''how can those escape, who turn from God in unbelief or apostacy''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-20.htm 12:20] —mentioned once
::''See that you do not refuse Him who speaketh from heaven, with infinite tenderness and love; for how can those escape, who turn from God in unbelief or apostacy, while he so graciously beseeches them to be reconciled, and to receive his everlasting favour!''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-21.htm 12:21] —mentioned twice
::''For in Deuteronomy 9:19 Moses, after the apostasy of Israel in worshipping the Golden Calf, said, “I was afraid (LXX. καὶ ἔκφοβός εἰμι) of the anger and hot displeasure of the Lord,” and in Acts 7:32 we find the words “becoming a-tremble” (ἔντρομος γενόμενος) to express the fear of Moses on seeing the Burning Bush ''<ref>See Deuteronomy 31:6 and Hebrews 13:5.</ref>
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-22.htm 12:22] —mentioned 4 times
::''apostasy from this religion could not be less terrible in its consequences than apostasy from the religion of Moses.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-23.htm 12:23] —mentioned twice
::''the aim of the writer, to warn the readers against laxity of morals, and consequently against apostasy from Christianity''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-24.htm 12:24] —mentioned once
::''how can those escape, who turn from God in unbelief or apostacy''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-25.htm 12:25] —mentioned 3 times
::''he warns them against falling away again from Christianity through laxity of morals (comp. also Hebrews 12:28 f.), in pointing out, similarly as Hebrews 2:2 ff., Hebrews 10:28 ff., that if the Israelites in old time incurred punishment by disobedience to the O. T. revelation of God, an incomparably severer judgment would overtake those Christians who should turn back again from the N. T. revelation of God.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-26.htm 12:26] —mentioned twice
::''The meaning is, that the introduction of the gospel was a much more solemn and momentous thing than the giving of the Law - and that, therefore, it was much more fearful and dangerous to apostatize from it.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-27.htm 12:27] —mentioned once
::''See that you do not refuse Him who speaketh from heaven, with infinite tenderness and love; for how can those escape, who turn from God in unbelief or apostacy, while he so graciously beseeches them to be reconciled, and to receive his everlasting favour! God's dealing with men under the gospel, in a way of grace, assures us, that he will deal with the despisers of the gospel, in a way of judgment.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-28.htm 12:28] —mentioned twice
::''the apostle brought the same instance of vengeance to the remembrance of the Hebrews, that they might be deterred from apostacy, disobedience, and all irreverence in the worship of God: who, though he appears so full of mercy in the gospel, is as much determined to punish the rebellious as ever. ''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/12-29.htm 12:29] —mentioned twice
::''an anthropomorphic way of expressing His hatred of apostasy and idolatry.''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/13-4.htm 13:4] —mentioned once
::''a good, moral use of the marriage bed, the natural and lawful use of the wife by the husband, and of the husband by the wife, according to the law of God; which is so far from being unclean, filthy, and inconsistent with the purity of Christ, as papists, apostates from the faith, assert'' <ref>"papists, apostates from the faith"—see [[calumny]] and [[libel]]. As demonstrated in this article by the actual definition of "''apostasy''", the Catholic Church is not apostate and Catholics are not apostates from the faith. The papist Catholic Church, in its official teaching, has always taken a positive view of the marriage bed and of sexuality in marriage. Marital intercourse, says the ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'' ([http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2362.htm paragraph 2362]), is “noble and honorable,” established by God so that “spouses should experience pleasure and enjoyment of body and spirit.”—[https://www.foryourmarriage.org/marital-sexuality/ Marital Sexuality (foryourmarriage.org)]. <br> According to the papist [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p2s2c3a7.htm#1601 ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'' (CCC) paragraphs 1601–1617 marriage "is by its nature ordered toward the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring"], and in [http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/p3s2c2a6.htm#2331 paragraphs 2331–2400 the conjugal sexual relation between spouses "preserves in its fullness the sense of true mutual love and its orientation toward man's exalted vocation to parenthood."]</ref>
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/13-13.htm 13:13] —mentioned once
::''The Jews spoke of them as “Nazarenes,” “Epicureans,” “heretics,” “followers of the thing,” and especially “apostates,” “traitors,” and “renegades.”''
*[http://biblehub.com/commentaries/hebrews/13-22.htm 13:22] —mentioned once
::''Suffer the word of exhortation - Referring to the arguments and counsels in this whole Epistle, which is in fact a practical exhortation to perseverance in adhering to the Christian religion amidst all the temptations which existed to apostasy.''
== Hebrews 6:4-6: the crucifying of Christ again ==
== Hebrews 6:4-6: the crucifying of Christ again ==