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title: "Hebrews 6 - Study King James Bible with clarkes commentary"
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 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,

 2 Of the doctrine of baptisms, and of laying on of hands, and of resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.

 3 And this will we do, if God permit.

 4 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,

 5 And have tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come,

 6 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.

 7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God:

 8 But that which beareth thorns and briers *is* rejected, and *is* nigh unto cursing; whose end *is* to be burned.

 9 But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you, and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.

 10 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.

 11 And we desire that every one of you do shew the same diligence to the full assurance of hope unto the end:

 12 That ye be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and patience inherit the promises.

 13 For when God made promise to Abraham, because he could swear by no greater, he sware by himself,

 14 Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.

 15 And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise.

 16 For men verily swear by the greater: and an oath for confirmation *is* to them an end of all strife.

 17 Where in God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed *it* by an oath:

 18 That by two immutable things, in which *it was* impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:

 19 Which *hope* we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and stedfast, and which entereth into that within the veil;

 20 Whither the forerunner is for us entered, *even* Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
 
[Hebrews 5](/study/hebrews/5) [Hebrews 7](/study/hebrews/7)

## Commentary

 To verse 1
 
Verse [Hebrews 6:1](/kjv/hebrews/6/1). ***Therefore*** — Because ye have been so indolent, *slow of* *heart*, and have still so many advantages. 

***Leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ*** — Ceasing to continue in the state of *babes*, who must be fed with *milk*-with the *lowest* doctrines of the Gospel, when ye should be capable of understanding the highest. 

***Let us go on unto perfection*** — Let us never rest till we are *adult Christians*-till we are saved from all sin, and are filled with the spirit and power of Christ. 

The words τον της αρχης· του Χριστου λογον might be translated, *The discourse of the beginning of Christ*, as in the *margin*; that is, the account of his *incarnation*, and the different types and ceremonies in the law by which his advent, nature, office, and miracles were pointed out. The whole law of Moses pointed out *Christ*, as may be seen at large in my comment on the Pentateuch; and therefore the words of the apostle may be understood thus: Leave the *law*, and come to the *Gospel*. Cease from *Moses*, and come to the *Messiah*. 

*Let us go on unto perfection*.-The original is very emphatic: επι την τελειοτητα φερωμεθα. *Let us be carried on to this perfection*. God is ever ready by the power of his Spirit, to *carry us forward* to every degree of light, life, and love, necessary to prepare us for an eternal weight of glory. There can be little difficulty in attaining the *end* of our faith, the salvation of our souls from all sin, if God *carry us forward* to it; and this he will do if we submit to be saved in his own way, and on his own terms. Many make a violent outcry against the doctrine of *perfection*, i.e. against the heart being cleansed from all sin in this life, and filled with love to God and man, because *they* judge it to be impossible! Is it too much to say of these that *they know neither* *the Scripture nor the power of God*? Surely the *Scripture* promises the thing; and the *power* of God can *carry us* on to the possession of it. 

***Laying again the foundation of repentance*** — The phrase νεκρα εργα, *dead works*, occurs but once more in the sacred writings, and that is in [Hebrews 9:14](/kjv/hebrews/9/14) of this epistle; and in both places it seems to signify *such works as deserve death*-works of those who were *dead in trespasses, and dead in sins*; and *dead* by *sentence of* *the law*, because they had by these works broken the law. Repentance may be properly called the *foundation* of the work of God in the soul of man, because by it we forsake sin, and turn to God to find mercy. 

***Faith toward God*** — Is also a *foundation*, or fundamental principle, without which it is impossible to please God, and without which we cannot be saved. By *repentance* we *feel* the need of God's mercy, by *faith* we *find* that mercy. 

But it is very likely that the apostle refers here to the *Levitical law*, which, in its painful observances, and awful denunciations of Divine wrath against every breach of that law, was well calculated to produce repentance, and make it a grievous and bitter thing to sin against God. And as to *faith in God*, that was essentially necessary, in order to see the *end* of the commandment; for without faith in him who was to come, all that *repentance* was unavailable, and all ritual observances without profit.

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