and thus translate: “Let us be carried on into perfection, and this we will do, God granting us mercy that we may be so enabled.”264 As Ellingworth and Nida pointed out, it is essential to treat vv. 1–3 as a unit for translation purposes and to show that v. 3 refers to pressing forward to maturity.265 The question of whether God will “permit” this is crucial to our understanding of Heb 6:4–6. This statement harks back to what was said in Hebrews 3–4 and the reference to the exodus generation’s disobedience