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For it is impossible to keep on restoring to repentance time and again people who have once been enlightened, who have tasted the heavenly gift, who have become partners with the Holy Spirit, who have tasted the goodness of God’s word and the powers of the coming age, and who have fallen away, as long as they continue to crucify the Son of God to their own detriment by exposing him to public ridicule. For when the ground soaks up rain that often falls on it and continues producing vegetation useful to those for whom it is cultivated, it receives a blessing from God. However, if it continues to produce thorns and thistles, it is worthless and in danger of being cursed, and in the end will be burned.

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For gar it is impossible adynatos when those ho who have once hapax been enlightened phōtizō and te have tasted geuomai the ho heavenly epouranios gift dōrea · ho and kai have become ginomai partakers metochos of the Holy hagios Spirit pneuma and kai have tasted geuomai the goodness kalos of God’ s theos word rhēma and te the powers dynamis of the coming mellō age aiōn and kai have committed apostasy parapiptō, to restore anakainizō them to eis repentance metanoia, since to their own heautou harm they are crucifying anastauroō the ho Son hyios of ho God theos again and kai exposing him to public shame paradeigmatizō. For gar the field that ho soaks up pinō the ho frequent pollakis rain hyetos that falls erchomai on epi it autos and kai yields tiktō a crop botanē useful euthetos for those ekeinos for dia whom hos · kai it is cultivated geōrgeō, receives metalambanō a blessing eulogia from apo · ho God theos. But de if it produces ekpherō thorns akantha and kai thistles tribolos, it is useless adokimos and kai about to be engys cursed katara; its hos · ho fate telos is to be eis burned kausis.

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