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seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of

God afresh, and put him to an open shame.”

Pretty serious warning, isn't it? A lot of people

take this verse and they want to play around

with it and use this verse for getting in and out

and getting in and out and things like that. He's

saying that, once this is committed, it's

impossible to renew them. This is talking about

apostasy, those that came out of Judaism and

now under the New Covenant that say they've

been enlightened, they believe in the Messiah,

and then totally turn their back on that and

those that come out of heathenism as the

Gentiles and worshipping idols and say now

they believe, and then totally turn back to those

idols. That's what this is talking about. This is

not talking about stumbling or making a mistake.

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