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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 Christ compared to 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.

See the following multiple expository commentaries on apostasy from Christ in Hebrews (explicitly mentioned 416 times):

• 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

• 2:1 —mentioned 3 times

the great guilt of disobeying, neglecting, or apostatizing

• 2:2 —mentioned once

the neglecters of this salvation in general, and apostates, or back-sliders, in particular

• 2:3 —mentioned twice

so to neglect them as to end in apostacy

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 3:6 —mentioned twice

A leading object of this Epistle is to guard those to whom it was addressed against the danger of apostasy.

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

• 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?

• 3:17 —mentioned once

τοῖς ἁμαρτήσασιν] those that had sinned, namely, by unbelief and apostasy from God.

• 3:18 —mentioned 3 times

To prevent these Hebrews falling, the Spirit repeats the direful oath of God to apostates in the wilderness

• 4:1 —mentioned once

he proceeds to describe the case of hardened and defiant apostates

• 4:11 —mentioned twice

The particle en may be read, into, and then it implies, lest any of you prove rebels and apostates.

• 4:13 —mentioned 3 times

No thought of unbelief or disobedience escapes His eye: the first beginnings of apostasy are manifest before Him.

• 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.

• 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

• 5:12 —mentioned once

This agrees well with the general strain of the Epistle, which is to preserve them from the danger of apostasy.

• 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.

• 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.

• 6:3 —mentioned twice

We should ourselves beware, and caution others, of every approach near to a gulf so awful as apostacy

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 6:8 —mentioned 11 times
• 6:9 —mentioned 13 times
• 6:10 —mentioned once

• 6:12 —mentioned once

• 6:15 —mentioned once

• 6:20 —mentioned 5 times

• 7:2 —mentioned once

• 7:12 —mentioned once

• 8:9 —mentioned once
• 8:10 —mentioned once

• 9:27 —mentioned once
• 9:28 —mentioned once

• 10:1 —mentioned once

• 10:18 —mentioned once

• 10:23 —mentioned once

• 10:25 —mentioned 14 times
• 10:26 —mentioned 27 times
• 10:27 —mentioned 6 times
• 10:28 —mentioned 14 times
• 10:29 —mentioned 30 times
• 10:30 —mentioned 9 times
• 10:31 —mentioned 5 times
• 10:32 —mentioned 32 times

• 10:35 —mentioned once

• 10:37 —mentioned once
• 10:38 —mentioned 7 times
• 10:39 —mentioned 12 times

• 11:25 —mentioned 3 times

• 11:36 —mentioned once
• 11:37 —mentioned twice

• 11:40 —mentioned once

• 12:1 —mentioned twice

• 12:4 —mentioned 7 times

• 12:13 —mentioned twice

• 12:15 —mentioned 8 times

• 12:17 —mentioned 5 times
• 12:18 —mentioned 6 times
• 12:19 —mentioned once
• 12:20 —mentioned once
• 12:21 —mentioned twice
• 12:22 —mentioned 4 times
• 12:23 —mentioned twice
• 12:24 —mentioned once
• 12:25 —mentioned 3 times
• 12:26 —mentioned twice
• 12:27 —mentioned once
• 12:28 —mentioned twice
• 12:29 —mentioned twice

• 13:4 —mentioned once

• 13:13 —mentioned once

• 13:22 —mentioned once