Hebreeën 6:8

8 Maar die doornen en distelen draagt, die is verwerpelijk, en nabij de vervloeking, welker einde is tot verbranding.

Hebreeën 6:8 Meaning and Commentary

Hebrews 6:8

But that which beareth thorns and briers
To which wicked men answer; who are unfruitful and unprofitable, and are hurtful, pricking and grieving, by their wicked lives and conversations, by their bitter and reproachful words, and by their violent and cruel persecutions; and particularly carnal professors, and especially apostates, such as before described; for to such earth, professors of religion may be compared, who are worldly, slothful, defrauding and overreaching, carnal and wanton; as also heretical men, and such as turn from the faith, deny it, and persecute the saints: and the things or actions produced by them are aptly expressed by "thorns and briers"; such as errors, heresies, and evil works of all kinds; and which show that the seed of the word was never sown in their hearts, and that that which they bear, or throw out, is natural to them: and such earth is rejected;
as such men are, both by the church, and by God himself; or "reprobate", as they are concerning the faith, and to every good work; and are given up by God to a reprobate mind: and is "nigh unto cursing"; and such men are cursed already by the law, being under its sentence of curse and condemnation; and are nigh to the execution of it; referring either to the destruction of Jerusalem, which was near at hand; or to the final judgment, when they shall hear, Go, ye cursed: whose end is to be burned;
with everlasting and unquenchable fire, in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone.

Hebreeën 6:8 In-Context

6 En afvallig worden, die, zeg ik, wederom te vernieuwen tot bekering, als welke zichzelven den Zoon van God wederom kruisigen en openlijk te schande maken.

7 Want de aarde, die den regen, menigmaal op haar komende, indrinkt, en bekwaam kruid voortbrengt voor degenen, door welke zij ook gebouwd wordt, die ontvangt zegen van God;

8 Maar die doornen en distelen draagt, die is verwerpelijk, en nabij de vervloeking, welker einde is tot verbranding.

9 Maar, geliefden! wij verzekeren ons van u betere dingen, en met de zaligheid gevoegd, hoewel wij alzo spreken.

10 Want God is niet onrechtvaardig dat Hij uw werk zou vergeten, en den arbeid der liefde, die gij aan Zijn Naam bewezen hebt, als die de heiligen gediend hebt en nog dient.