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"Crucifying Afresh For One's Repentance" (Heb 6:4-6)

Modern interpreters commonly understand Heb 6:46 as teaching that repentance is impossible for the Christians who apostatize, because to fall into such a defection is equivalently to crucify afresh the Son of God’. It seems that this interpretation has gradually become common in the past when it was invoked in support by the Novatian and other rigoristic sects which opposed readmittance into the church for those who had (( lapsed 1) under persecution. A careful study of the text should permit us to discover its true meaning, in line with Heb’s insistence on the definitiveness of the C-histian economy and the once-for-all character of the sacrifice of Jesus. Let us begin with a graphic presentation of the Greek text2, which will be followed by a literal English translation: