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and tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come,[a] and then have fallen away, to bring them to repentance again, since they are recrucifying the Son of God for themselves[b] and holding him up to contempt.(A) Ground that has absorbed the rain falling upon it repeatedly and brings forth crops useful to those for whom it is cultivated receives a blessing from God.(B)

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  1. 6:5 Tasted the good word of God and the powers of the age to come: the proclamation of the word of God was accompanied by signs of the Spirit’s power (1 Thes 1:5; 1 Cor 2:4).
  2. 6:6 They are recrucifying the Son of God for themselves: a colorful description of the malice of apostasy, which is portrayed as again crucifying and deriding the Son of God.

who have tasted the goodness(A) of the word of God(B) and the powers of the coming age and who have fallen[a] away, to be brought back to repentance.(C) To their loss they are crucifying the Son of God(D) all over again and subjecting him to public disgrace. Land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is farmed receives the blessing of God.

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  1. Hebrews 6:6 Or age, if they fall