Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Hebrews 10:26

"For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more a sacrifice for sins," — Hebrews 10:26 (ASV)

The writer clearly has apostasy in mind here. He is referring to people who “have received the knowledge of the truth,” with “truth” (GK 237) standing for the content of Christianity as the absolute truth. They know, then, what God has done in Christ. If they revert to an attitude of rejection and of continual sin, there remains no sacrifice for sins. Such people have rejected the sacrifice of Christ, and the author has earlier shown that there is no other. If they revert to the Jewish sacrificial system, they go back to sacrifices that cannot put away sin (v.4). The writer adopts no pose of superiority, but his “we” puts him in the same class as his readers.