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QUESTION—To whom does ἡμων ‘we’ refer? It includes the writer with his readers [EBC, NIGTC, NTC, TNTC, WBC, Wst] in a tactful pastoral reference [NIGTC, Wst]: if we willfully sin. QUESTION—What is implied by the phrase ἑκουσίως ἁμαρατανόντων ‘willfully sinning’? 1. It refers to deliberate apostasy [Blm, EBC, EGT, GNC, Hu, Lg, NIC], the sin from which there is no return [GNC]. It implies true previous conversion [Alf, Hu, Lg, NCBC, NIC]. It can occur only ‘after receiving the true knowledge of
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