the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance; seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame” (Heb. 6:4–6). That passage just means this: a man who denies the Lord Jesus Christ and his atoning death and justifying resurrection, a man who does not lean absolutely and entirely upon him, is a man who is lost. He is a man who puts Christ to an open shame by denying him; he crucifies to himself the Son of God afresh. This does not