 He says, in the case of those who were once enlightened, verse 4, tasted of the heavenly gift, partakers of the Holy Spirit, tasted the word of God, the power of the age to come, and then they fall away. Fall away means apostasy. He says, once you apostatize, you deny the faith actively by verbal, visible denial or passively just by walking away from it, even though you don't verbally say it. He says,