A Jewish perspective on Hebrews Warning Passages

The points listed below come from a website that is a ministry that shares the Gospel with Jewish people. I found this commentary interesting because it looks at the Hebrews 10:26 passage through covenant lenses and pulls the focus away from the individualistic interpretations that make their way into a lot of commentaries now days. Notice the focus on the Covenant Community. Hope you find it helpful:

Key Point 1: The sins in view here involves deliberately rejecting the New Covenant and calling the shed blood of Jesus “unholy”, that is to say, the death of Jesus is simply a “common” death with no value for forgiveness of sin. Notice it also involves “insulting the Spirit of grace”, a similar idea to the unpardonable sin spoken of in the Gospels. If one goes back to the Temple sacrifices after having been enlightened as to the truth of the greater and final sacrifice of Jesus, those sacrifices can no longer atone for sin.

Key Point 2: Notice the verb tense in 10:26. It says: “deliberately keep on sinning.” Henry Alford says, “Notice the present, not the aorist participle. ‘If we be found wilfully sinning’, not ‘if we have wilfully sinned,’ at that Day.” (Alford’s Greek Testament, Vol. IV, p. 199). This is not talking about a sin committed some time in the past, rather, it is talking about entering into a continuing state of rejection of the grace of God offered through the Messiah’s sacrifice as found in the New Covenant. It involves departure from the New Covenant community, giving up “meeting together.”

Key Point 3: Notice that the phrase “there is no longer any sacrifice for sin” (Hebrews 10:18) is echoed in the phrase “no sacrifice for sins is left” (Hebrews 10:26). The point is that if the final sacrifice for sin found in the New Covenant Atonement of Jesus us rejected, there is no other to be found.

Key Point 4: The clause in Hebrews 1:26, “If we deliberately keep on sinning,” is explained by verses 28 and 29, (as well as the other passages). It does not refer to one particular act of sin, but rather continuance in a state of rejecting the Covenant, having contempt for the Messiah and his atoning blood, and insulting the Spirit of Grace. It is a form of the one unpardonable sin, since all other sins can be forgiven.