Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 6:3
And this will we do, if God permit.And this we will do — We will go on to perfection; and so much the more diligently, because, read more
And this will we do, if God permit.And this we will do — We will go on to perfection; and so much the more diligently, because, read more
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,It is impossible for those who were once enlightened — With the light of the glorious love of God in Christ.And have tasted the heavenly gift — Remission of sins, sweeter than honey and the honeycomb.And been made partakers of the Holy Ghost — Of the witness and the fruit of he Spirit. read more
And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,And have tasted the good word of God — Have had a relish for, and a delight in it.And the powers of the world to come — Which every one tastes, who has an hope full of immortality. Every child that is naturally born, first sees the light, then receives and tastes proper nourishment, and partakes of the things of this world. In like manner, the apostle, comparing spiritual with natural things, speaks of one born of the... read more
If they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.And have fallen away — Here is not a supposition, but a plain relation of fact. The apostle here describes the case of those who have cast away both the power and the form of godliness; who have lost both their faith, hope, and love, Hebrews 6:10, etc., and that wilfully, Hebrews 10:26. Of these wilful total apostates he declares, it is impossible... read more
But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.That which beareth thorns and briers — Only or chiefly.Is rejected — No more labour is bestowed upon it.Whose end is to be burned — As Jerusalem was shortly after. read more
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.But, beloved — in this one place he calls them so. he never uses this appellation, but in exhorting.We are persuaded of you things that accompany salvation — We are persuaded you are now saved from your sins; and that ye have that faith, love, and holiness, which lead to final salvation.Though we thus speak — To warn you, lest you should fall from your present steadfastness. read more
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.For — Ye give plain proof of your faith and love, which the righteous God will surely reward. read more
And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:But we desire you may show the same diligence unto the end — And therefore we thus speak.To the full assurance of hope — Which you cannot expect, if you abate your diligence. The full assurance of faith relates to present pardon; the full assurance of hope, to future glory. The former is the highest degree of divine evidence that God is reconciled to me in the Son of his love; the latter... read more
That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.Inherited the promises — The promised rest; paradise. read more
Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Hebrews 6:1
Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God,Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ — That is, saying no more of them for the present.Let us go on to perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works — From open sins, the very first thing to be insisted on.And faith in God — The very next point. So St. Paul in his very... read more