Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark [finish line, the goal] for the prize [crown] of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Phil. 3:13, 14). This, we believe, will explain the passage in Hebrews six. He is speaking of Christians who began the race, but fell by the wayside. There comes a time when after repeated warnings and admonitions the
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