this sin.40 A second difficulty with this view concerns the application of the warning to the readers. The issue here is with the impossibility of the warning. How could the author of Hebrews be warning his readers about something that would be impossible for them to do? It would seem that warning the readers about something that could not actually take place robs the author’s words of any real force and becomes no warning at all.41 Attempts by some to show that such warnings are found elsewhere