shows plainly that the wilful sin which he has in mind is deliberate apostasy. People who commit this sin, he says, cannot be brought back to repentance; by renouncing Christ they put themselves in the position of those who, deliberately refusing his claim to be the Son of God, had him crucified and exposed to public shame.57 Those who repudiate the salvation procured by Christ will find none anywhere else. The margin of the ERV/ARV suggests an alternative rendering which may appear to moderate