28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on thetestimonyof two or three awitnesses.
29aOf how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, bcounted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, cand insulted the Spirit of grace?
30 For we know Him who said, a“Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,”1 says the Lord. And again, b“The Lord will judge His people.”
31aIt is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
32 But arecall the former days in which, after you were1 illuminated, you endured a great struggle with sufferings:
33 partly while you were made aa spectacle both by reproaches and tribulations, and partly while byou became companions of those who were so treated;
We know him that said (oidamen ton eiponta). God lives and is true to his word. He quotes Deuteronomy 32:35 (cf. Romans 12:19). For ekdikhsiv see Luke 18:7 f. God is the God of justice. He is patient, but he will punish.
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