presenting a hypothetical case, a straw man” and that the sin in question “cannot be committed today since no temple and no sacrifices are in existence, and no transition period obtains.”52 It does not require temple and sacrifices, or a transitional period of the kind allegedly implied in this epistle, for men and women who have taken Christ’s name upon themselves to commit apostasy; and biblical writers (the writer to the Hebrews being no exception) are not given to the setting up of men of straw.