Hebrews 6:4
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,
Note d'étude
Study Note
The warning about those 'once enlightened, and have tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost' who fall away represents one of the New Testament's most debated apostasy texts, driving centuries of controversy between Calvinist and Arminian interpreters. The experiential vocabulary is unusually rich: enlightened, tasted the heavenly gift, tasted the good word, shared the Holy Spirit, tasted the powers of the coming age — all pointing to deep and genuine spiritual experience. The argument's pastoral logic in context is hortatory rather than primarily dogmatic: the author urges his readers to move toward maturity (6:1) rather than entertaining the possibility of having to 'lay again the foundation.' Whether the hypothetical fall describes genuine apostasy of the truly regenerate or covenant apostasy of the externally privileged remains the crux of the hermeneutical debate.
Autres traductions
For as touching those who were once enlightened and tasted of the heavenly gift, and were made partakers of the Holy Spirit,
for <FI>it is<Fi> impossible for those once enlightened, having tasted also of the heavenly gift, and partakers having became of the Holy Spirit,
As for those who at one time saw the light, tasting the good things from heaven, and having their part in the Holy Spirit,
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